The mixed-media short blends stop-motion animation with cg backgrounds created in Blender. The film has been selected in the student competition of the upcoming edition of the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Ansel has also worked on animated projects with rapper Pi’erre Bourne and fashion brand Mark Cross, but online he is perhaps best known for his Tiktok account, where he has amassed nearly 460,000 followers.
Lucas Ansel’s 99¢ Pizza is a student film made at Rhode Island School of Design and it’s a perfect slice of animated horror.