In response to our DIY Movie Making theme, John Martin, of Reallusion, makers of the machinima/animation software iClone, sent us this adorable piece he did using the software he and his brother James developed. As he put it in email: “iClone and a crew of two. No render farm. No team. No limits, with an […]
This is the fanciest first aid kit I’ve ever seen! MacGuffin Films made this one up with everything they might need for a location shoot for about $235 total, not including the $55 Husky case. In addition to bandaging cuts and scrapes, this kit can ease almost any ailment that would delay filming. Parts list […]
When I visited my cousin last week, his daughter Neeka Mashouf (age 13) and two of her classmates (Nicole Bronstein and Sydney Schonefeld) were deeply engaged in creating a stop-motion animation film for a class project, complete with a homemade stage and camera platform. The assignment was to explain and show examples of Newton’s three […]
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In response to DIY Movie Making Month, one of our readers, Angela Sheehan, sent us this wonderful little movie she made with her (then six-year-old) sister: This is a stop-motion collage I made, based on drawings by my little sister (six years old at the time). Back in 2005, I was studying animation and taking […]
This animation, done by NYC’s Tronic Studio, for AXA, a French insurance company, is faux stop-motion, faux papercraft, all 3D Studio Max. Tronic Studio
You’ve heard of tilt-shift photography, right — pix shot with a special lens that makes everything look like little models. Well, check out Sam O’Hara’s The Sandpit, an awesome tilt-shift movie of a day in the life of New York City! [via Kottke] More: DIY tilt-shift lens Weekend Project: Tilt-Shift Photography HOW TO – Make […]
