10 Tips from Oscar-Nominated (and Winning) Filmmakers

We talk to a lot of talented filmmakers at Musicbed, but not all of them win Oscars. And we all…

5 Animated Short Films to Inspire Your Next Project

Animation has been with us for a very long time now. People have been drawing sequential, motion-mimicking frames for thousands…

Rob Chiu’s Journey from Animator to Director

Like any good story, our careers often make sense only in retrospect. In the moment, the way forward is anything…

An Oscar-Nominated Animator on How to Tell Catchy Stories

Three recent design school graduates are sitting in a room somewhere in the Netherlands, listening to an album. The record…

Why Difficult Films Are the Only Ones Worth Making

Danny Madden (a.k.a. Ornana) has one rule: Make films the hard way, or don’t make them at all. “Sometimes it’s…

Embrace the Terror: Behind an Oscar-Nominated Short

At just 26 years old, Daisy Jacobs was nominated for an Academy Award for her animated short film, The Bigger…