He has made some remarkable animations overlaying the before-and-after pictures, so you can sort of watch the breakup happen before your eyes.
But it is, for instance, the remarkable warzone animation to which In Any Tongue serves as a soundtrack that gives the song power.
Inside Out won out over Charlie Kaufman's remarkable stop-motion animation Anomalisa, an extraordinary sui generis piece of work which I think should get a category all of its own.
This is a remarkable feat of animation from Katsuhiro Otomo and Rin Taro: a futuristic parable, with something of Kubrick, and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, but with a staggeringly intricate vision of the city state itself, populated partly by robots and humans.
It was, however, another remarkable year for animation, with the brilliant CGI work of Pixar's Toy Story 3 (in 3D) being challenged by the more traditional techniques employed by the eccentric Franco-Belgian-Luxembourgish A Town Called Panic, the Spanish Chico and Rita, the Anglo-French The Illusionist, and the most cheerful thing out of Ireland in 2010, The Secret of Kells.
This Is Your Brain on Fractals.
A review in The Era reviewed the young actor's performance: "A good figure and expressive face were known to be among his advantages, but it was, perhaps, not suspected that he was a capital vocalist, a skilled musician, and an actor of remarkable ease and animation".
What is so remarkable about this short animation is that it relies entirely upon the premise of homophobia in order to make an impact.
This takes a lot of time to build, but then the animations have a remarkable longevity of use and strongly resonate with the audience.
The visual effects are still remarkable; the startling verisimilitude of the animation, the swooping perspectives, the vivid colours, the pristine planes and rendered textures.
