Flat Black Films Filmes

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later...

In this short film, filmmakers Bob Sabiston and Tommy Pallotta accompany Ryan, a six-foot-tall, 13-year-old autistic boy, to a local convenience...

In Grasshopper, park-bench philosopher AJ Vadehra expounds on astrology and more productive avenues of contemplation. Done all in grey-green, this...

Ryan Power is back and he means business. This second trip to Fiesta Texas is done ride-by-ride “just like last time.” Thrill to the...

An animated short about recycling.

Ryan gives a tour of the Capitol in Austin, Texas

Color test for animation by Bob Sabiston

Flat Black Films’ rotoscoping software was originally developed for an MTV contest. It is 34 animated interviews with random people encountered...

This is the first ‘independent’ use made of our “rotoshop” software. It was quite primitive in the beginning. This is a...

This abbreviated short, though never finished, got into Siggraph’s Electronic Theater for 1994. An early Bob Sabiston animated short