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1. Yellow Cake

2 months ago

The newest film by award-winning animator, Nick Cross. 'Yellow Cake' is a lamentable tragedy mixed full of pleasant mirth.

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Benjamin Arcand 2 months ago

WOAH! :0 Super!!!
Great story, BGs, animation & ambience!
I'm honored to be the 1st to comment... héhéh!
Willem V.A 2 months ago

Awsome =) so wel done and the quality stays consistent all the way to the end =) good work
Jared Deal 2 months ago

Awesome!
Brent Bouchard 2 months ago

that film is bad-ass. nice work!
Lance King 2 months ago

Amazing and inspirational!
-GO- 2 months ago

I was not expecting that!
Amazing
Nick Cross 2 months ago

Thanks everybody!!
Luke Allen 2 months ago

Amazing work, truly great! Any chance of an HD upload :)
Mike Hollingsworth 2 months ago

this cartoon made me hungry.
Sam Fout 2 months ago

Beautiful. Congrats
Matthew Seely 2 months ago

Simply awe-inspiring! I second the request for HD!!!
Charles Huettner 2 months ago

very nice indeed
Rawls 2 months ago

Great work Nick!
Nik Skavinsky 2 months ago

Ha! So politically ironical. Love it.
310 Pictures 2 months ago

AWESOME. Great balance in your tone.
smo 2 months ago

totally incredible totally relevant. fantastic work!!!
Michael Berardini 2 months ago

awesome!
mikejamesbelanger 2 months ago

Nice film - the colours were amazing - and the fat cats too!
dunkwun 2 months ago

wow. gutsy. to say the least.
Aleix Pitarch 2 months ago

I love it!
Zumbakamera 2 months ago

Bravo!
David Nethery 2 months ago

Well done. Congrats on having made something with both substance and style.
Ryan Schmid 2 months ago

this was amazing!
bryab 2 months ago

this is the best thing.
Ted Watts 2 months ago

A one sheet (maybe like the cover of Waif) would give people a better idea of what it promises...
Brett W. Thompson 2 months ago

Nick, you're so amazing. Thank you so much for making this film and sharing it with us!! :) Please put storyboards or animatic on the DVD release??? :D
Squidley 2 months ago

Awesome as hell. Great point of view.
pitayon 2 months ago

Muy buena animación, la idea generall, la historia, me gustó bastante
Nathan Malone 2 months ago

that was friggin fantastic.
beautiful.
Ian Jones-Quartey 2 months ago

whooooa! that was really amazing!
Emily Barrera. 2 months ago

This is wonderful!
Love those BGs!
Great short!
victor rago 2 months ago

Brilliant
Bupla 2 months ago

Splendide.
Afif 2 months ago

That was "freaking" awesome.
Doctor Nick 2 months ago

The sad story of western imperialism. The ending is the most poignant; Us first-world parasites can't be arsed by the rape of the third world, we can just change the channel.
Nick Cross 2 months ago

Thanks a million!!!
Brad Garrett 2 months ago

Remarkable. Thanks for giving this to us...
Lippy 2 months ago

Just downright remarkable, Nick! And just when the channel got turned was EXACTLY when I'd had enough and wanted to start thinking about what might be in my 'fridge.

Telling all my friends.
Julia Miller 2 months ago

So disturbing, so effective, well done. My mouth dropped open a few times.
Cartoonguy11 2 months ago

Love it! The animation is so good, I thought I was watching an older cartoon at times! Impressive!
Rusben Bolobol 2 months ago

Very sad and fun to watch! Nick, I enjoy your style and ideas.
sam spreckley 2 months ago

just amazing... great imagination, great visual style
Chance 2 months ago

Wow your work really paid off, Nick. What program(s) did you use on this animation. My friend and I have been arguing about our different speculations as to what software you used to animate this in and I think you used a combination of Photoshop, Illustrator, , Aftereffects, Premier, Flash and or ToonBoom. I think you probably did some traditional painting...but I couldn't tell.

In anycase this is well done. I can't wait to see more.
Edwin Oliv@ 2 months ago

realy nice LMAO but sad end
Mayrhosby Yeoshen 2 months ago

It's the history of human governments in a nutshell! The ending is just mindblowing. I love your style, and as said before, it's very consistent throughout the story. I love EVERYTHING about it. I'm just wondering, what program did you use to animate? It looks like toomboom to me. And also how long did it take to make it? Once again, congratulations!
KoMoH 2 months ago

wow!
kill krash and destroy!
da veed 2 months ago

The best short I've ever seen on the web! WOW. It's going to be an animation Classic. Everyone should see this. Amazing!
advanced 2 months ago

very nicee
Nick Cross 2 months ago

Thanks!
It was all done in Flash, drawn directly into the program with a Cintiq tablet. The bg's were done in Photoshop.
Miguel Bernal 2 months ago

Genial. Un video muy creativo y con mucho contenido. Congratulations.
Shima  David Schmidt Cardoso 2 months ago

wow
congrats!!!
Mary Carmen 2 months ago

this is perfect for an history class.
derzinho 2 months ago

super film et ,hélas , si réaliste.
Mak Hon Keat 2 months ago

amazing too amazing! Nice relief ending :)
dmm 2 months ago

great lol
Juan Pablo 2 months ago

I love the retro feeling!!... looks to me like this huge goverment I prefer not to mention.
Ammonite 2 months ago

I didn't like it........ Ahhh only joking, Really brilliant great job. I love the style you used to tell a great fable.
Mark Bratanov 2 months ago

Great story.
JonathanCruz 2 months ago

Ahhh man I love this old school feeling , you should make one for christmas...=)
Yvonne van Ulden 2 months ago

Hi Nick, I hope you will send it in to the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival edition 2010 (www.klikamsterdam.nl). We love it.
retro 2 months ago

Excelente!!!!!!!!!!!
Oscarh Ortega 2 months ago

wow! what a complete and original short film! i loved it! do u know where can i get one of those tasty yellow cakes by any chance? hahaha...
Jet Kaiser 2 months ago

Great all around!
Jeff LeBel 2 months ago

Great use of color...Awesome...
Daniel Cecil 2 months ago

Nice build to the end ... good script. Reminds me of an animated Mad Magazine.
Bernard Dumaine 2 months ago

Excellent !!!
Johan Berglund 2 months ago

OMG...That was a great movie. HAHA. Loved it! ^_^
Slavica Micic 2 months ago

That was great, congrats!
cqld 2 months ago

I love your way of animation !
Zombelious 2 months ago

Seriously one of the best animations I've ever seen. Drawing style, coloring style, all of the motions and expressions- everything was amazing .
Frode Bang 2 months ago

I don't think this movie is politically ironical, this is just how screwed things are. It should be mandatory in high school!
Sheryle C 2 months ago

thank you.
Lawrence 1 month ago

Positively Orwellian
Athios 1 month ago

Loved it! Moral of the story: Cats are evil. Yes.

Btw, how did what were clearly cookies turn into cakes?
taug 1 month ago

it's awesome...it's best animation that i have ever seen
and i liked emotions of characters a lot....gr8t
Briareos 1 month ago

Great metaphor, make me a bit sad. Great animation, congrats!
Bran Dougherty-Johnson 1 month ago

Brilliant, Nick.
Scott 1 month ago

Great stuff Nick...very frightening and poignant. Loved it.
Shabith Ishan 1 month ago

Brilliant work! thumbs up!
mpared 1 month ago

brilliant published at the curious brain
Pixel Street 1 month ago

Bravo!
Jessica Vielma 1 month ago

It has the warm feeling of the old good cartoons but contains the sad reality of the world...Loved the part when two of the baker town people with burned bodies tried to scape, that resembles the child subject of a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War (Phan Thị Kim Phúc) Excellent work!
NACKTMULL 1 month ago

wow great job! entertaining AND political
Brad Fielder 1 month ago

Very timely and a treat to look at.
grootfontein 1 month ago

A masterpiece... of cake !
W W 1 month ago

this was amazing!
hanib 1 month ago

Awesome :)
Adam Temple 1 month ago

That was a true work of art. Congrats.
onehugeeye team 1 month ago

wow wow wow
onehugeeye team 1 month ago

just posted it on onehugeeye

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this is truly brilliant, nice work Nick!
Toby Anthonisz 1 month ago

That was huuuge! Superb storytelling, so much covered very succinctly and the twist at the end with the flicking of the channels, a stroke of brilliance! Also really dig the use of the dramatic stills.
Thankyou for sharing this with us, I will be spreading this to everyone I know.
Dave Glanz 1 month ago

Genius.
Ishan Shukla 1 month ago

Best short I have seen this year. Portraying imperialism in a remarkably simple yet disturbing way.

Congrats for the brilliant film!
Tom Geraedts 1 month ago

Fantastic
Yair Mor 1 month ago

Amazing story and superb animation, man. Congratulations!
Ljose 1 month ago

Any similarity with reality y purely coincidential... , great story, and about the animation... y really like the jhon k influence, you`re taking the "spumco" style to the next level.
Good job....
Gellnerism 1 month ago

that was totally awesome! you deserve all the praise!
It really intrigues me to how you portray imperialism without being overly anti-americanistic, rather showing the underlying truth of exploitation. really great work.
Seth Estrada 1 month ago

Wow! Thank you for staying on topic. No tangents or BS. This is a breath of fresh air with all of the 'other' programming available.
Fernando Sanches 30 days ago

wonderful script and excellent animation, congratulations on the great job
Alexander Paul Newbury 28 days ago

A perfect allegory of the oligarchical global village/ society we live in. :)