Do you ever wonder what happened to the baby in stripey pajamas who stared in Labyrinth? Not the character but the actor. He grew up to become Toby Froud of striped pyjamas and he makes puppets and animates them Labyrinth style. As it happens his father is Brian Froud who was the conceptual artist for […]
Short film: SubWars
Blood and gore splatter aplenty when an old man isn’t offered a seat on a busy subway. The Force is strong with this fellow. He looks the part, I admit, and I don’t think anyone is surprised when he pulls out a red lightsaber. The question is; why didn’t anyone offer him a seat. Would […]
Warhammer 40K fan film: The Lord Inquisitor trailer
This is an impressive fan made animation set in the future that is Warhammer 40K. Already Games Workshop’s lawyers are circling, ready to shoot first and ask questions later to protect their valuable intellectual property – no matter the cost. So? Watch this while you can. It’s good. It shows a Grey Knights Space Marine […]
Star Wars animated like Robotech
This 2 minute animation, also available in 3D, shows what Star Wars might look like if it’s animated like a traditional Robotech anime. It also shows Tie Fighters doing some serious damage on the rebel fleet. Via Lauren Berkley at Geeks are Sexy.
Game of Thrones Edinburgh
The Scottish capital has been turned into the eighth kingdom by Steven Jefferies. Clearly I wasn’t the only one who thought his home city had the sort of buildings that would fit perfectly with some of the architecture in a Song of Ice and Fire. I just didn’t have the skill. Jefferies has oodles of […]
Short film: Biomorph
This is a film an evil GM shows to players along with the phrase “This is what you see!” Biomorph is a teaser animation project made by students at Danish VFX school in 2013. You can see how the scene demonstrates all sorts of modelling techniques and, I’ve got to say, a clip like this […]
Short film: The Glitched King
This is a comedy short about a space traveller who crashes onto an alien planet. The animation was made, in part, by Michael Piazza. Piazza notes the two inspirations for the project are space that the fact that people kept on touching his hair. Watch the video and you’ll see how that factors in. Leap […]
The Book of Life trailer
We’re getting used to the occasional Halloween animated treat from Tim Burton… but The Book of Life is a Guillermo del Toro project. Yes, del Toro. There’s a cast with plenty of big names in it; Ron Perlman, Channing Tatum, Zoe Saldana, Ice Cube, Danny Trejo, Christina Applegate, Diego Luna and others. Directed by Jorge […]
Short film: Concerning Dragons
A short animation by Kieran Duncan that’s part MSc project and done in association with Axis Animation. It’s an unofficial tie in with the release of The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug. It feels brief but took 13 weeks to make and has a simply wonderful papercraft effect. Time to dare some short film roulette. Click […]
Short film: Action Bill
There’s a lot going on in this short animation from AMAA Productions. Animated with LEGO Action Bill follows one busy day in the life of William Shakespeare. What happens? A couple of Star Trek captains happen, that’s what. Use this teleport link to randomly jump over to another video.
