1.   An international collection of animated shorts gathered into a feature-length film.

2.   Boyd Webb, the photographer, has produced an animated short, heroically scored, about the adventures of a popcorn kernel.

3.   Academy Award-winning animated shorts are usually seen by, aside from the academy voters, about a dozen moviegoers.

4.   After a computer camera shoots each position, the sequence is played back, as an animated short.

5.   After making a few animated shorts, Judge clicked with MTV.

6.   His passion intensified after he began making animated shorts for television and, a couple of years ago, for the Internet.

7.   Icebox is producing animated shorts for the Internet, with the hope that one or two of these shows will be picked up by a major network.

8.   In the past, only animated shorts received awards, and an animated film needed to compete with live-action features.

9.   It won four before we knew it, its momentum finally stopped by an award for best animated short.

10.   James Brooks, David Lynch and Tim Burton have all signed on with Shockwave.com to develop animated shorts, and Barry Sonnenfeld will direct projects for Novix Media.