The short is hand-drawn on recycled paper ... in full and premieres as part of the Animated Shorts Competition program at SXSW 2014. Confusion Through Sand is directed by 26-year-old filmmaker ...

Forget American Sniper. This hand-drawn animated short may be the year’s ultimate statement on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2012, animation production company Ornana promised backers on ...

I've never seen a short film quite like Confusion Through Sand, an animation by Danny Madden and ... Each one of the film's 6,500 frames were drawn by hand on recycled paper, which was then ...

with one hand marked with the flag of Vietnam and the other the US. It took me just around a few dozen seconds to draw this, and when I finished, everyone in the hall stood up and gave round of ...

An internationally acclaimed artist, who creates moving pictures in sand, is bringing the art form to the UK for the first time. Ukrainian Oksana Merhut, known as the Sand Fairy, is touring with ...

An Oscar nominee for 'Clay or the Origin of Species,' he later helped shape the look and spirit of Nickelodeon and MTV. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Eli Noyes, the Oscar-nominated animator who ...

Ms Merhut, speaking through an interpreter, said audiences have so far been "amazed", adding that "many had never seen sand animation live before". The show has received rave reviews at 3,000 ...