2010-01-24
Burning through the animation festival circuit, Max Winston’s “I Live In The Woods!” picks up awards and kudos. Cal Arts grad Max Winston’s thesis film is a high energy stop motion feast of colors and colorful characters. Max bravely and seamlessly weaves together on-set stop motion with live actors and exterior shots, creating a short … Read more
2009-12-17
The ambitious stop motion short “Zero” picked up a NSW Gold Award from the Australian Cinematographers Society in the Experimental and Specialized Category. Zero director Christopher Kezelos gives credit to the exceptional work of the film’s director of photography Mathew Horrex. The film was shot using Dragon Stop Motion software. Christopher had this to say about … Read more
2009-10-09
Pigeon Pilfer from Michael Stevenson on Vimeo. Pigeon Pilfer is a beautifully animated stop-motion film from Michael Stevenson. It is his senior film as a student at San Francisco State University. It took him four months to complete and involved sixty pounds of clay. It was shot with a Canon DSLR using Dragon Stop Motion … Read more
2009-02-06
We were just sent this beautiful music video directed by Sean Pecknold for the Fleet Foxes song “Mykonos”. Sean and his team spent four weeks animating cut paper on a glass multi-plane rig. The images flow so well with the track, quite cinematic! You may also know Sean as the filmmaking entity “Grandchildren”. Here is … Read more
2008-01-03
A short film by Bruce Alcock, with the National Film Board of Canada and Global Mechanic.