I recently came across a great new initiative by Pixar, the company which disrupted the movie industry with blockbuster hits like Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Wall-E and The Incredibles. It is called Sparkshorts, and is described as Pixar Artists' Projects. Check out my video above about why the company can benefit from a program like [...]
This short animated film really got to me. Without speaking a single word, it illustrated how parents who think they are doing what is best for their children may inadvertently be training them to be uncreative. Watch the short film in the video above. Called Alike, it was directed by Daniel Martínez Lara & Rafa Cano [...]
When people think of Pixar, they usually think of family-friendly cartoons like Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc and Toy Story. Well, two animators from the world's most successful digital animation studio want to change your opinion on just what stories digital animations can tell. "Borrowed Time" , video shown above, is an animated short film, directed [...]
This short, heartwarming animated feature was previously shown at over 180 film festivals and took home over 50 awards. Based on a comic strip, this short film was the graduation project from the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Amazingly, it was produced by just 10 [...]
This video might start off looking like just another DIY project, but partway through it shows the fun and creativity that the author put into it. Technically speaking, it's nothing special. Youtuber Hampton Rutland explains how he's finishing a construction project with wood he reclaimed from a derelict demolished house. But once it starts (at around [...]
