Favorite no-budget films on MAKE

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March 22nd, 2010

Over the years, we’ve posted a lot of low/no-budget sci-fi fan films, stop motion videos, Lego “brickfilms,” and other movies lovingly made by makers with a fun idea and a home video camera. We decided to look through the site and gather up some of our favorites.

Collaborative Star Wars fan film

Amazing sci-fi short film done for $300

New Robotmakers video

Bot rock with the Robotmakers

Brickfilms: Lego stop-motion

Stop motion LEGO video

Stop motion Tron sequence

Wolf and Pig’s stop motion adventure

Stop-motion post-it pixel short

The balloon project – Berlin