Defective Detective (2011)

Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis made this as computer animation students at Ringling College, and it took the bronze medal for animation at the 2011 Student Academy Awards. A washed-up detective's imagination runs wild as he tries to solve the most critical case of his career, and the comedy lives in the gap between what he pictures and what is really going on. The bold, graphic color design looks more like a studio short than a thesis film. The Academy itself hosts it on the Oscars YouTube channel.