Friday, March 9, 2012

Kara Is Self-Aware: Heavy Rain Maker Unveils Uncanny Performance Capture

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Electro Shock


France sure seems to be turning out a lot of talented animaton students lately. Here's an entertaining 8 minute short that's well worth the subtitles.

Monday, January 9, 2012

The Hobbit Short You Never Saw!


Created by Gene Dietch in 1966, to fulfill a contractual clause and retain the rights from Tolkien for an unmade "Lord of The Rings" film. Read the story of it's making here.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

A Christmas Card from Terry Gilliam


The "American Python", master of absurd cut-out stop-motion, sends us his Christmas best wishes.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Indiana Jones: Stop Motion


In honor of the 30th anniversary of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jeff Gurwood provides us with a shot-by-shot stop motion recreation of the opening scene. In some ways I still think of the original as a "perfect" movie.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Dr Breakfast!


Funny and surreal. When a man's soul goes on vacation, two deer take care of his catatonic body at home.

Faster than light-speed camera.


By combining multiple high-speed exposures with very short laser pulses, MIT has figured out how to image waves of photons as they travel across a scene. Absolute genius. I actually met Doc Edgerton (referenced in the video) when I was a teenager. He would be impressed.