SMILE- 2005
Live Action & CGI Short Film by Yuval Markovich and Noam Abta
What is with these crazy gifs with the freaky bald smiling ghouls? Where the hell does that come from?
You may be talking about SMILE.
For awhile, little was known about Smile creators, Yuval Markovich and Noam Abta. They had a website once called LionInZion.com, which is a mess to visit and questionable (it wanted you to download the site to see it). This film was made as a student project in 2005.
Yuval Markovich and Noam Abta were formely hosted on Uri Shinar's now defunct, AniBoom and Yuval and and Noam's own Nitako. Despite such a promising start, Yuval and Noam have faded into obscurity.
6 years after his splash, Mac Gaming did an email interview with Noam in March 2011.
Interview with Noam Abta (Nitako)
I recently had the privilege of e-mail chatting to Noam Abta, co-founder of Nitako games. Nitako is the creator of several iTunes App Store hits; one of which we have already reviewed.
Noam was kind enough to give us an insight into Nitako, their games and even some advice.