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For whatever reason I’ve been featuring a lot of animated shorts here lately, and considering they’re averaging about 0.37 comments per post, why stop now? Patrick Jean’s eye-catching animated short PIXELS came out a month ago, but now there’s news that it is being adapted into a feature by Adam Sandler’s production company Happy Madison. Something tells me I’ll end up liking the original more… More »

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The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9

05.14.10 @ 9:59AM Tags : ,

Animator Jake Armstrong spent a year and a half animating this six-minute short in Flash. You’d never know, because there’s nothing “labored” about it. A thesis film at SVA, Armstrong said of the film that he thought it would be much better with music; I think one of the best parts is the relative silence (they’re in space, after all!). More »

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The Return of John Frum

05.13.10 @ 9:22AM Tags : ,

The animation in this short by Christian Schlaeffer is amazing. The story… well, I’m not sure you can call it a “story.” If you take illegal substances as a method of escape and/or enhancement, you might want to do so before watching this surreal and gorgeous short! Viewed sober, it doesn’t make a hell of a lot of sense. Which is exactly what made me want to watch it a second time… More »

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In Kate Ray’s 14-minute film Web 3.0 (embedded below), Clay Shirky asks, “does the world make sense, or do we make sense of the world?” In other words, does the infographic of web links at left resemble the universe because a natural relationship exists between all things, or does the infographic resemble the universe because whoever graphed the visualization made it look like the universe? Watching the short, I kept thinking: these charts are cool and all, but what does Web 3.0 actually mean for you and me? One guess: much better automatic filters; that is, Netflix‘s movie recommendation engine times a thousand (for a lot more than just movies). Here’s the video: More »

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Short: Pivot

03.9.10 @ 12:00PM Tags : , ,

I find motion-captured performances (see: Robert Zemeckis’ CGI films) to be comparatively lifeless when measured against hand-animated fare (see: all of Pixar’s movies). The Netherlands-based crew behind Pivot employ a low-poly look not just to give their short style, but to make their characters expressive.

[via Short of the Week]

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Short: The Sandpit

03.4.10 @ 12:00PM Tags : ,

I’ve been wanting to use tilt-shift interludes as part of a feature film for a while now. These guys put the effect to beautiful use.

Here are some deets on how they did it (hint: they didn’t actually use tilt-shift lenses).

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Seen: He Dies At The End

01.29.10 @ 12:00PM Tags : ,

Sometimes the simplest tricks are the most effective. Good title, too. More »