Category Archives: Video

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L.A. Noire Gag Reel

It took seven years to develop the 2011 videogame L.A. Noire, which employed the face-performance capture system MotionScan. Despite all that work, the in-game performances are still a little stiff and unnatural — but the resulting bloopers are remarkably convincing. … more »

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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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Kia Sorento “Space Babies”

You may as well get a head start on your Super Bowl viewing by taking a trip to Babylandia with director Jake Scott and the visual-effects team at Method Studios. You might not even notice that "Space Babies" is trying … more »

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Cyborg Foundation

Neil Harbisson was born completely unable to perceive color. Rather than accept this condition, he worked to develop the eyeborg, which translates colors in front of him into sounds — and, he says, makes him a cyborg. In this very … more »

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Samantha Crain: Never Going Back

You've seen those music videos animated, flip-book style, using print-outs on paper. But have you ever seen one shot in real time, in a large room full of printouts on card stock, using a moving camera to create the animation … more »

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Bonobo: Cirrus

At first, it looks like this music video is going to be simply a rhythmically edited montage of found footage from ephemeral films of the 1950s. Then it gets weird. Mesmerizing work for British electronic musician Bonobo from the Brighton, … more »

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Trailer: Inside Llewyn Davis

Talk about a departure — Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis, with its New-York-in-the-1960s period setting and soft blue-green tones, doesn't really look like any other Coen Brothers film. It was shot by DP Bruno Delbonnel (Amélie, Across the … more »

Shugo Tokumaru: Katachi

Enjoy this stop-motion animated video for Japanese pop musician Shugo Tokumaru's song "Katachi," created using papercraft figures and shapes by directors Kararzyna Kijek and Przemyslaw Adamski, aka Kijek / Adamski.

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Movie Clip: Escape from Tomorrow

Here's a clip from Escape from Tomorrow, a narrative feature film shot with DSLRs, guerilla style, on location and without permission in the Walt Disney World and Disneyland theme parks. Director/screenwriter Randy Moore took post-production to South Korea to help … more »

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Microscopic Time-Lapse: Sensing Danger

Ready to see a completely different part of the world? This clip, depicting an immune reaction in the lymph node of a mouse, is the winner in Nikon's second-annual Small World in Motion Photomicography Competition. It was made using a … more »