This year’s competition animations at the Florida Film Fest showcase old timers and newcomers in a wide selection of the cute and quirky.

Don’t worry that all the actors die in Bill Plympton’s low-budget Western – the show must go on, sez Carl F Gauze.

A collection of animated short films from around the world, presented by Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt, amuses Carl F Gauze.

Two dozen short animated films your mother would NOT want you to see? Must be the return of Spike & Mike’s Sick and Twisted Animation Festival! Carl F. Gauze takes you there.

Carl F. Gauze turns his “sick and twisted” eye to The Don and Bill Show: Slightly Bent, a collection of animated shorts from Don Hertzfeldt and Bill Plympton.

Apparently, if you grow up in Portland, you wither become a serial killer or a cartoonist. Thankfully, Bill Plympton chose the latter. Carl F. Gauze took a moment out of the Florida Film Festival to catch up with the Oscar-nominated animator.