{"id":113579,"date":"2025-09-04T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/113579\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:57:08","slug":"in-a-new-hothouse-animated-short-the-sun-wakes-up-after-a-long-winter-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/113579\/","title":{"rendered":"In a New Hothouse Animated Short, the Sun Wakes Up After a Long Winter \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In northern climes, winter sometimes feels like it drags on forever. A new animation directed by Mitchell Keys taps into the feeling of elation and brightness that accompanies the first days of spring. And while his short film, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aH49_FSmXuw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Springrise<\/a>,\u201d is only about a minute long, it traces the sun\u2019s journey higher into the sky, as if awakening from hibernation while people rejoice.<\/p>\n<p>Hothouse, an apprenticeship program facilitated by the National Film Board of Canada, invites a handful of participants to create ultra-short animated shorts every year. It aims to quickly and flexibly make animations while emphasizing creative and technical excellence, and 2025 marks its 15th edition. You can watch all of this year\u2019s projects, plus dozens more from past cohorts, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/collection\/hothouse\/?hp_=feature_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NFB website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/springrise-2.jpeg\" alt=\"a still from an animated short titled 'Springrise' featuring 12 frames with people and suns\" class=\"wp-image-461445\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/springrise-1.gif\" alt=\"a gif from an animated short titled 'Springrise' featuring a sun with a face, smiling as a green orb with people on it turns in the foreground\" class=\"wp-image-461442\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"118516\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal Member<\/a> now, and support independent arts publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Hide advertising<\/p>\n<p>Save your favorite articles<\/p>\n<p>Get 15% off in the <a href=\"https:\/\/colossal.shop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal Shop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Receive members-only newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Give 1% for art supplies in K-12 classrooms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In northern climes, winter sometimes feels like it drags on forever. A new animation directed by Mitchell Keys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,45120,95,56,54,55,5793],"class_list":{"0":"post-113579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-seasons","11":"tag-sun","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}