Category Archives: Short Film (narrative)

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Spy vs Guy

Wait — is there a cool new tool from Red Giant? Then there must be a cool new short film to go along with it. Director Seth Worley's latest, "Spy vs Guy," was made using Red Giant's new BulletProof software, … more »

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A Little Bit Behind

What if you built a time machine that left you living in the past — three seconds in the past? This 48 Hour Film Project short from Australia is the story of Stevie "three seconds" Palmer, a part-time chef and … more »

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Caldera

Director Evan Viera and animation supervisor Chris Bishop co-wrote "Caldera," a multi-award-winning animated short film, produced at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, about a young girl experiencing an "ambiguous reality." The fantastic imagery may recall the work of Hayao Miyazaki, … more »

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Coney Island

The rides at New York's Coney Island opened on schedule yesterday, despite lingering devastation from Hurricane Sandy. As a coincidence, yesterday was also the birthday of silent-film comic Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. It's as good a time as any, then, to … more »

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The Postal Service Auditions

To promote its new tour and album re-release, The Postal Service released a new video — but not a music video. Director Tom Scharpling enlisted a range of indie-rock luminaries for this wry short film purporting to show how producer … more »

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Valibation

It's all about sex, cell phones, and body modification in this NSFW short from writer-director-editor Todd Strauss-Schulsin made in five days with the Red Epic. The vertigo-inducing motion-control shots were executed with the compact Impala crane from Pacific Motion Control. … more »

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Fix It in Post

Autodesk hopes this fanciful short film will keep the reality-bending power of its Smoke 2013 editing and compositing system at the front of your mind. 

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Paperman

Disney's Oscar-nominated animated short "Paperman" overlays 2D drawings on CG shapes, giving the computer-generated animation a distinctly (and unusually) old-fashioned feeling without making it feel cheap or low-tech. The artists used a proprietary Walt Disney Animation Studios program called Meander … more »

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Tempo

Here's the latest web short from the folks at Red Giant, who commission writer-director-VFX artist Seth Worley to put its digital toolkit through its paces in slick films like "Plot Device," "Form 17," and, now, "Tempo." It doesn't look like … more »

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Dragon Baby

As far as we can tell, Dragon Baby isn't selling anything or promoting a brand, nor is he trying to get you to vote for a political candidate. Kudos, Dragon Baby! This short is from the multitalented Patrick Boivin.