"One Rat Short" is a work of love created by Charlex Films. It began as part of the effort to grow the company's commercial CG department but eventually became much more than that.

ALEX WEIL is the award-winning executive creative director and founder of New York-based "design and build" digital studio CHARLEX. As a designer, storyteller and technical innovator, he has delivered breakthrough moments in digital imagemaking for over 25 years.

From pioneering work with multi-layered video effects for The Cars' 'You Might Think' video (netting the young director MTV's first ever Best Music Video Award), the Emmy award winning opening for Saturday Night Live, the Grammy nominated '90125' long form video for the band Yes, to scores of advertising industry awards for over 300 of the top Fortune 500 companies, Weil has become synonymous with the aesthetics and language of digital communication.