Alma

I must say I found this stun­ning ani­ma­tion quite scary in a beau­ti­ful way. The con­cept is very clever and the ani­ma­tion exquis­itely deliv­ered. A curi­ous young girl prances down a snowy street when some­thing catches her eye that per­haps shouldn’t have. Your brain bounces back between awe and ten­sion. It’s really quite clever. The fact that Alma is Span­ish for ‘soul’ will make a lot of sense once you’ve seen it.

The atten­tion to detail shows from the out­set the love and ded­i­ca­tion that has been put in its pro­duc­tion. It is really a plea­sure to watch, the only ting wrong with it is that you wish it was longer. I guar­an­tee it will leave you gag­ing for more!

Alma is Rodrigo Blaas’ first short film as a direc­tor. Orig­i­nally from Spain, Rodrigo Blaas has worked in ani­ma­tion for more than ten years, in Spain and in the United States.

Seiz­ing the pos­si­bil­ity of direct­ing his first inde­pen­dent short film, Rodrigo Blaas asked some of the best artists in their field to take part in this inde­pen­dent project: French ani­ma­tor Bol­hem Bouch­iba, char­ac­ter designer Car­los Grangel and Ser­gio Pab­los, Art­Di­rec­tor Alfonso Blaas, music com­poser Mas­tretta and sound designer Tom Myers.