"Epic"

Based on "The Leaf Men" by author William Joyce. This looks to have a lot of potential.

"Road Runner" Cartoon: Fur of Flying

One of the new 3d CGI Road Runner shorts which I had not seen. Come on Warner Bros., these should be bundles with all your movies. (Unfortunately there are adds before and after, but nothing in life is free.)

Ice Skating Dinosaur

Self explanatory and fun.

Haunted Mansion Animation!

My friend, Artist Chris Gallagher is at it again. This time with an animation he has done of Disney's Haunted Mansion, just in time for Halloween!

"Heavenly Appeals" a short film by David Lisbe

After many millennia of being tortured in Hell, Raymond K. Hessle has finally earned a chance to appeal his sentence of Eternal Damnation. Upon arriving at the "appeals" gate of Heaven he is greeted by the angel who will preside over his case. As Raymond waits at the edge of paradise, he will finally have a chance to prove just how worthy he is.

Blizzcon 2011 - Diablo 3 Making of Black Soulstone Cinematics

Trailer and in-depth panel on the creation of this amazing work. This is some of the best art-direction and rendering I have seen in a good while. Thanks to Alex Lindsay for posting the link on Twitter.

I have embedded it here, but really recommend you see this in full HD on You Tube, here.

AICP Southwest 2011 Sponsor Reel

What an entertaining way to list sponsors, and what a pleasant short!

Oktapodi

This won a 2009 Oscar for Animated Short Film. Fun.

Origami Crane

Created by my friends at Analytical Mechanics Associates, from the NASA Advanced Concepts Lab. Animation developed to encourage Japan while they heal after the earthquake.

Beware The Gawper!

Video by "A Large Evil Corporation"

Serious Photoshop Magic plug-in

I can think of so many artistic and forensic uses for this. Believe me the security industry will be very interested. Think of all the blurry footage out there, of bank robberies and assassinations, etc.

This is like having a time machine, that allows you to go back to an event with your camera, and this time use a tripod! Thanks to Rob Burns for bringing this one to my attention!

Big Buck Bunny

(c) copyright Blender Foundation | www.bigbuckbunny.org

Can you crowd source an animated short and have it be consistent, professional looking, and funny?

How about the software it's created with? The answer to both is yes! "Big Buck Bunny" was created with "Blender" a freeware application.

Phil Trumbo

Also teaching at VCU, when I was a student, Phil Trumbo directed the animated sequences in the opening of Pee-Wee's playhouse. See his current reel below.

Nuit Blanche

Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo. A beautiful film showing a moment in time, slowed just short of "bullet time." An animated ballet, visual poetry.

Steve Segal Animation Reel

My favorite teacher at VCU was Steve Segal. This is his current animation reel. He taught animation and animation history. He later went on to work on movies like The Brave Little Toaster, several Pixar films, and even did work for Pee Wee's Playhouse. His early work in the 70s, on early computer generated animation and in stop motion was ground breaking. Along with Phil Trumbo he created the stop motion feature film Futropolis. You probably have not seen it,... but you have seen it's influence in a lot of the music videos of the 80s, and in Futurama. Here is an interview with Steve by Terry Gross on Fresh Air.

Who Shot First?

Long before "Clone Wars" we created this whole card game illustrated with 3d models. I like to think that our little experiment helped encourage Lucas that a TV series could be done in a CGI style.  I tend to believe Greedo reached first, but Han drew and shot faster, then Greedo pulled his trigger in the spasm of death.

Grand Moff Tarkin

My 3d illustration of Tarkin for Decipher Inc's "Jedi Knights TCG."

Eye of the Storm

EYE OF THE STORM | Lovett from Lovett on Vimeo. I posted this one elsewhere a while ago, but it's worth revisiting.

Meet Evie

Evie is the animated avatar of a chatbot created by "Existor".

Talk to her at existor.com