Independent filmmaker Polaris Banks transformed and filmed his brother Hilarion Banks as Casey Jones, the off-kilter, sports gear-loving vigilante from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, resulting in this hard-edged, professional quality short film. Read more »
If I wasn’t already married to the most wonderful woman in the universe, I would want this 9-minute short film to bear my children. I’m not kidding. Read more »
Stop motion animation is a rare thing these days. In the age of computer animation, it takes a special kind of animator to endure the incredible patience and painstaking skill required to animate real-world objects, one frame at a time. Yet for those remaining devotees, the production values have continued to advance with the times. Here are ten examples of stop motion animation that push the envelope of what’s possible. Get ready to pick your jaw up off the floor. Read more »
Ever wonder what happened to your lost LEGO Bricks? This (sort of) stop-motion short film explains where they’ve gone. (Spoiler: they’ve found a happy place.) The whimsical video takes you inside the mind of an inventor who cooks up ideas using LEGO Bricks as his inspiration. The Brick Thief is the second “LEGO Click” short film; the first can be seen below. Both were created by a company called Blue Source, which has made music videos and advertisements for the likes of Virgin Mobile, Pizza Hut, Snickers, Honda, and many more. Read more »
I am completely mesmerized by this. Steve Jobs take note: this might be the most ingenious use of an iPad yet. A group of filmmakers made this nifty little film to explore three-dimensional typography. They use a proprietary program to show shapes on the iPad’s screen, and then drag those screens through a space that’s being filmed using long exposure. The result is what appears to be 3D words and objects that float and move through air. It’s so cool, it makes me wish I had their iPad app and a long-exposure camera so I could make a film of my own! The film is part of an science/art project Read more »
