Selected for Sundance this year, Black Holes is a satirical animated series about space conquest, featuring Dave the Astronaut and his melon. Via Short of the Week:
What is unusual for films of this kind though is to have amazingly intricate 3D animation paired with it. I mean Black Holes is grotesquely gorgeous, and the amount of labor that went into this 12min pilot is absurd. With heavily stylized but unique character design, tons of locations, and immaculate background detail, the film is a top-notch artistic production which—when juxtaposed with its off-the-wall story—is a weird combination.
For this reviewer it definitely works though. Produced by the French/American company NOODLES, the short film is the brainchild of two brothers, David Nicolas Laurent Nicolas, who are accomplished animation directors with notable French TV shows to their name, as well as the Netflix series F is for Family. Along with Kevos Van Der Meiren, a frequent collaborator of Quentin Dupieux (Rubber), the team had the talent and experience to pull this off, and their ambitions for Black Holes extend past the short: the film’s online launch coincides with a Kickstarter campaign designed to get the funding necessary to produce an entire season of episodes.