Action Movie Kid / Daniel Hashimoto
Using Adobe After Effects, talent, skill, and a careful hand, DreamWorks animator Daniel Hashimoto has turned his cute kid, James, into Action Movie Kid. Dad of the Year! The little vignettes are adorable, hilarious and perfect. Who needs an imagination when you can manipulate pixels like magic? Check out the series below. –@teemunny via The Creators Project
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iDiots / Big Lazy Robot VFX
It’s not a secret we love robots here at BLR, so we wanted them to be the heroes in our latest promo clip. Luxury cars with powerful engines to drive through roads under severe speed restrictions, cable TV that allows us to pay to watch all kind of sports, all from our comfortable sofa, and […]
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ABE (Science Fiction Short Film) / Rob McLellan
ABE is a short film directed by up-and-coming director and VFX artist Rob McLellan. The film depicts a serial killer robot who was programmed to love. It is a smart and compelling sci-fi work. All the CG animation was generated and crafted by the director himself. –@s_iravani Written and Directed by Rob McLellan Cinematography by […]
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Cityscape (Official Music Video) / Mike Luck
Here is the official video for Cityscape, a morning drive through a retro-future desert landscape. Cityscape is the title track from the Cityscape EP by Dutch synth pop producer, Mike Luck. The 3D Animation was created by Maxmana. –@ybaynes
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Next Generation Life (Hyperrealistic Real-time Facial Rendering) / Activision R&D
This animated character is being rendered in real-time on current video card hardware, using standard bone animation. The rendering techniques, as well as the animation pipeline are being presented at GDC 2013, “Next Generation Character Rendering” on March 27. The original high resolution data was acquired from Light Stage Facial Scanning and Performance Capture by […]
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Pop Culture Roundup 45
Happy New Year, Fanpeeps. Remember when His Airness came back in ’95 and rocked #45 because they had already retired his number 23? This one goes out to the culture of comebacks. Presenting Pop Culture Roundup 45. Paramount just released eleven high resolution images from Star Trek Into Darkness. Set your phasers to fun and scope them out […]
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Pop Culture Roundup 41
It’s the triumphant return of Pop Culture Roundup. The forty-first edition is coming straight at your dome. Captain’s log, stardate 1207.12, the poster (/Film points out a common trend with these posters) and teaser trailer (above) for Star Trek Into Darkness has been released. This is J. J. Abrams‘ second installation of the franchise reboot. It’s what you’d […]
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2088 (Sci-Fi Teaser / Trailer) / Steve Ilous
To produce, direct and write a transmedia sci-fi/drama property that will entice audiences from all around the world, allowing people to experience this story through multi-platform touch points.” 2088 is being written and directed by Steven Ilous, with sound design by Gavin Little of EchoLab. Here is the trailer for 2088, an upcoming science fiction film […]
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Monster Roll (short film) / Dan Blank x Vanishing Angle
This short was created as a proof-of-concept for a feature about sushi chefs fighting sea monsters. It’s a crazy idea, but one we just really wanted to see made. So, we made it. We sorely miss the tone of those big, fun fantasy movies we grew up with–movies like Ghostbusters, Gremlins, and Big Trouble in […]
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Old School vs. New School / Freddie Wong x Brandon Laatsch (freddiew)
What happens when old school games go face to face with new school characters? Special thanks to Internet Explorer for making this video possible – we were able to fly out some primo cosplayers and pull in the VFX expertise of Playfight for this one! Here is DIY-SFX-VFXers Freddie Wong and Brandon Laatsch and their company Rocket Jump […]
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The Eagleman Stag / Mikey Please
The 2011 BAFTA award winning short film, The Eagleman Stag, amazing stop motion work by Mikey Please, an independent animator from London. Please watch this wonderful animated film. –@teemunny Synopsis: Peter’s life has been spent in both fascination and fear of his quickening perception of time with age. As he nears the end of his days, his […]
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Epoch / Anthony Scott Burns (Pilotpriest)
This is a personal video edit by Toronto-based filmmaker, designer, and musician Anthony Scott Burns, also known as producer Pilotpriest. You might have heard of Pilotpriest when he produced a homage to Tron Legacy and people mistook him as Daft Punk. The Epoch short was made as a tribute to science fiction; the footage is taken from […]
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