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Rafael Mayrhofer — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:28:37 -0500

Homepage: drop-out.at

A baby doll struggles with his destiny in a world ruled by Eugenics through a mechanical apparatus represented by awakened surveillance cameras.

A 3D animation with a real background miniature set, nothing except the baby dolls and surveillance cameras is 3D. A project by 6 students from the University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg.

Making Of: vimeo.com/7617128

Direction: Rafael Mayrhofer
Surveillance Camera: Katja Flachberger
Special doll: Sven Skoczylas
Doll crowd: Johannes Eichberger
Miniature Set: Rafael Mayrhofer, Jennifer Weixler
Photography: Rafael Mayrhofer, Jennifer Weixler, Bernadette Fellner

Cast: Rafael Mayrhofer, Sven Skoczylas, johannes eichberger, Katja Flachberger and jennifer weixler

Midwinter in Sweden

Henning S — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:59:29 -0500

henningsandstrom@gmail.com

Cast: Henning S

Viney

vart — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:02:55 -0500

New year, back to work.

Cast: vart

The Sword Maker & The Swordsman

Matthew Allard — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:46:34 -0500

The ancient art of sword making is a dying profession. Kuo Chang Shi is the last remaining professional sword maker in Taiwan. He made the famous Green Destiny sword for the Oscar wining Movie Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

Shot on a Canon 7D with a Canon 50mm f1.2 and a Canon 16-35mm f2.8

A different version of this story ran on Aljazeera
youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish#p/search/1/vmxxOHIQU0s

Cast: Matthew Allard

The Story Beyond The Still: The Cabbie

Vincent Laforet — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:42:00 -0500

When I was asked to interpret this still, a thousand different ideas flooded my mind. I wanted to create a dynamic film that took the audience on a journey and showed off the many strengths of this new breed of HD DSLR cameras, such as the Canon 7D, which we shot this film with. The camera's low light capabilities and light weight allow you to do things you'd never think to try with traditional cameras. This has been an amazing experience and it’s just the beginning.

I hope you enjoy this short - we had a blast making it!

Cast: Vincent Laforet

Time to Go in the SEA!

allan wilson — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:34:58 -0500

Not cut that well...
basically causeI'm Lazy...
but hopefully you will Enjoi..

Song by : Phoenix - Lisztomania

moonlightinthemorningsun.blogspot.com

Cast: allan wilson

Paris Vol. 4

The Seventh Movement — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:32:57 -0500

Time lapse collection 4 of 20.

Please be patient as player loads.

"Paris is one of the most romantic cities in all the world. Seventh Movement takes us on a time-lapse journey throughout the city and shows us beautiful views of the Eiffel Tower during the day and night." -MyModernMet

Vol. 3 vimeo.com/8549656
Vol. 2 vimeo.com/8530881
Vol. 1 vimeo.com/8525840

Place de la Concorde, Tour Eiffel, Centre Georges Pompidou

Pelican City - Chestnut Park

Camera 1: Canon 5D II 24 tse II 24-70 tc-80n3
Camera 2: Nikon D3 14 -24 24 PC-e + GD ND filters

Cast: The Seventh Movement

The Third & The Seventh

Alex Roman — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:06:08 -0500

.Fullscreen it, please.

A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects
are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.

Credits:

CG

|Modelling - Texturing - Illumination - Rendering| Alex Roman

POST

|Postproduction & Editing| Alex Roman

MUSIC

Sequenced, Orchestrated & Mixed by Alex Roman (Sonar & EWQLSO Gold Pro XP)

Sound Design by Alex Roman

Based on original scores by:

.Michael Laurence Edward Nyman. (The Departure)
.Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns. (Le Carnaval des animaux)

Directed by Alex Roman

Done with 3dsmax, Vray, AfterEffects and Premiere.

EDIT: Original MP4 torrent if you're interested. Thanks to Brennan ;)

temporarygate.com/TheThird&TheSeventh.mp4.torrent

thirdseventh.com/

third.seventh@gmail.com

Cast: Alex Roman

1Dmk4 Footage From Sydney New Years Eve 2009

Michael Fletcher — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:08:37 -0500

This is a thrown together piece of footage I took with Canon's new 1Dmk4 which I had the chance to have a play with for a few days thanks to Ben Walton from Team Digital in Perth Western Australia.

I was off on True North again to capture some highlights of their Sydney Rocks cruise for New Years. I packed the 5Dmk2 and of course the Brand Spanking New 1Dmk4.

The pressure was on on two levels. One to shoot some nice footage for the owners of True North and Two to do justice to Canon's new super camera. Unfortunately no one told the weather to play ball and it was a dull grey dreary few days in Sydney.

Of course this is great for even light but if your trying to sell beds on boats blue sky wins out everytime. I alternated between the two camera's so I have more footage from this trip but I wanted to show only 1D footage in this edit.

I couldn't really distinguish between the footage of
the two cameras but noticed that the 1Dmk4 footage looked a little softer than the 5D. Maybe it was due to a smaller sensor and shooting 24p. Don't really know but it made me want to favor the 5D more.

The low light capabilities seemed no better than the 5D and as soon as I see noise in my footage I tend not to push the ISO anymore. At around 400 ISO on both cameras the noise to me became unacceptable but a proper test with both cameras in a studio set up would tell the story better.

Would I buy a 1Dmk4 over a 5Dmk2 if it was just to shoot video? Probably not. This was not a true opportunity to test the camera as I had a job to do and stuffing around was not an option. I'll get another chance with this camera in the next few days so maybe I'll set up some better tests.

Enjoy this for what it is. It's not my best work but at least those of you who are looking at this camera may have a better informed decision if considering buying one.

Gear used included 1Dmk4, 5Dmk2, Canon lenses TS-E 17mm f/4, 24mm f1.4, 85mm f/1.2, 400mm f/5.6, Filters etc etc......

Read more info at christianfletcher.wordpress.com

Music courtesy of Nine Inch Nails, "The Frail", Just Like You Imagined" awesome music.

Cast: Michael Fletcher

Warpaint - Stars

Adam Harding — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:48:24 -0500

Official music video for "Stars" by Warpaint, taken from the Exquisite Corpse EP (Manimal Vinyl).

Filmed in the ashes of the Angeles National Forest.

Shot by Adam Harding, edited and directed by Burke Roberts and Adam Harding © 2009

Cast: Adam Harding, Burke Roberts

E.T.A. by JUNK

Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:43:01 -0500

Marvin has the most boring job in the universe - but all is not as it seems...

720P HD Version + more info available at our website: junkworks.org/

Director: Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen
Modelling & Character animation: Søren Andersen & Michael la-Cour
Original Music & Sound Editing: Rasmus Kudahl Kaae Munch
Production: JUNK

Originally premiered at BreakPoint '08 in Bingen, Germany where it won the 1st prize in the animation competition.

Cast: Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen

One year in 120 seconds

Eirik Solheim — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:21:22 -0500

The whole of 2009 in a special "video timelapse". If you want to know how it was made you find the whole story here: eirikso.com/2010/01/04/one-year-in-90-seconds/

Cast: Eirik Solheim

Electropolis

Kevin McCullough — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:14:05 -0500

The product of roughly 7 months of work from 13 students in the 3rd year of the BAA Animation program at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

Cast: Kevin McCullough

Alexandra

oliver gray — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:52:31 -0500

Featuring Ariana Fraval.

Shot in available light on a Canon 5D Mark ii (Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L Lens and monopod) Edited on Final Cut Pro 6.

I wrote, shot and cut it.

Cast: oliver gray

_grau | 10:01 min | d 2004 | HD premiere

Robert Seidel — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:17:17 -0500

Award-winning experimental film _grau for the first time in HD on Christmas 2009: … _grau is a personal reflection on memories coming up during a car accident, where past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally … various real sources where distorted, filtered and fitted into a sculptural structure to create not a plain abstract, but a very private snapshot of a whole life within its last seconds …

Media critic Matt Hanson, author of The End of Celluloid and founder of onedotzero festival says: "_grau appeals to me because it is organo-tech. it does not deliberately ape the abstract pioneers of abstract cinema, and it is worlds away from the motion graphic masturbation of many of those enamoured by digital animation. seidel's work is impressionistic, melding biological and emotional currents. out of amorphous shapes we make out bones, heads, a hand. a spirit leaving the body. at least, this is what i sense out of the chaos of galactic reconfigurations, neurological connections, and biological forms. this is a powerful piece of digital animation precisely because it does not feel like such, it feels emotional, epic. and once you release the background to the animation--communicating a 'coming to terms' with the aftermath of a car accident--you realise why."

Robert Seidel | 10:01 minutes | Germany 2004 | 2minds.de

Cast: Robert Seidel, film-m

Mormor - Grandma

Espen Hobbesland — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:31:14 -0500

Stressed-out parents or a crazy grandmother. Pia prefers the latter, who takes her to the moon and back.

One of our exam films on "Film and Television production" at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Cast: Espen Hobbesland, Marthe Igesund, joakim and A. D. S. Haldorsen

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eduardo omine — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:39:01 -0500

blog.omine.net/

Cast: eduardo omine

Look At Me

Patrick Lawler — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:36:15 -0500

My first video ever shot entirely on the Canon 7D and I have to say that I am in love with this camera! Thanks to Henry Bruington for letting me borrow his camera and for helping me shoot the video! vimeo.com/henrybruington

This short film is a compilation of 3 days worth of shooting, and several different concepts mixed together.

Thanks to Jeff Claassen for providing all artwork/props for this video! And for coming out and jumping in the sand with us! You can check out his awesome work here! jeffclaassen.com/

The entire film was shot in slow motion at 720p

Lenses used:
Canon 50mm f1.4
Canon 100-400 f4.5
Canon 17-35 f4
Canon 100mm Macro f2.8 (THIS LENS IS AMAZING!)

Cast: Patrick Lawler, Henry Bruington and jeff claassen

The Story Beyond the Still "The Cabbie" - Behind The Scenes

Vincent Laforet — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:53:05 -0500

Introducing the first user-generated HD Video Contest where photographers become filmmakers, and we all see beyond the still. To kick off the contest, Canon asked me to interpret what story I saw beyond the still, and to tell that story with the new Canon EOS 7D. My short film will be the first chapter of seven, each ending with a still photograph for the next aspiring filmmaker to interpret. Posing the question to everyone, what do you see beyond the still?

Watch my short film "The Cabbie" here vimeo.com/8341236 and the contest will begin January 15th. I look forward to seeing what everyone creates! More info coming soon!

This video was Directed, Shot and Edited by Blake Whitman. Additional cameras by Brian King and Sean O'Brien.

Cast: Vincent Laforet, Blake Whitman, bk and Sean O'Brien

The People of Brighton - Short Film

Sim Warren — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:17:51 -0500

The People I know in Brighton, play an important role in the Rollerblading scene within the UK. Everybody knows them for their contribution to Rollerblading however I wanted to share an insight into their lives besides Rollerblading, also showing how diverse Brighton can be.

This 4 minute piece filmed using a Canon 7D was shot 24p during the week on a typical day in their lives.

Lenses:

Canon 70-200mm Sigma 10mm Canon 18-55mm

Music.

1st: The XX - Intro
2nd: Beirut - Guyamas Sonora

For a few behind the scenes photos you can visit here... cinema5d.com/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=8440

Huge thanks to Andrew Pearce for lending me his lenses, helping through-out the day, being patient and giving me mad company. Love.

Cast: Sim Warren

Left-brained Larry & Right-brained Rachel

Niels Wee — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:44:30 -0500

Synopsis
This is the tale of Left-brained Larry & Right-brained Rachel, a Siamese twin couple, stuck
together by the head and thus resulting in them sharing only one brain. Using exactly fifty percent
each, their separate personalities are kept intact and following the theory, being either left- or rightbrained, Larry and Rachel are complete opposites. They have a hard time being stuck together with their counterpart, but not only do they hate each other, their abnormality also makes them dislikable to the people around them, leaving them with a melancholy life of bullying and parental neglect.
One thing the couple shares though is a common hatred and a longing for revenge.
The opportunity arrives when they find out that using the whole brain at once might give them
supernatural powers that can help rid them of their enemies. But the tragic lesson is learned: Being
so opposite their team work is doomed to go terribly wrong.

The Script
I've had the idea for this story for a couple of years before I came to the European Film College
(EFC). I've always been very interested in how the brain works and how intelligence can be
categorized between individuals and at the time I had recently read what is now my favourite book,
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and other stories by my number one idol Tim Burton.
Influenced by the style of this book, mixed with philosophies of left- and right-brained theories, the
characters of Larry and Rachel came to me out of thin air.

I drew my first sketch of the characters and played around with some rhymes but didn't get much
further at the time. I've always had a small dream of doing stop motion, so it wasn't until the
opportunity arose at the school that I decided to take up the idea once again. Eventually I submitted
it for the Final Projects and was extremely happy when it got chosen amongst the around seventy
scripts submitted.
Today the theories are quite outdated, but I decided that this wasn't supposed to be a story of realism afterall. The concept worked brilliantly though: From this very black and white way of looking at the world, the personalities of Larry and Rachel were strictly set from the beginning and it was easy to figure out how each of them would think in any given situation. The plot came from the idea of Larry and Rachel joining forces to get revenge on the people who had treated them badly whilst growing up. By mixing brainwaves Larry and Rachel could get supernatural powers. Knowing how opposite they are though, the ending was just as clear to me from the beginning.
I enjoyed writing this script and hope to write many more just like it. Stylistically it's very
influenced by the works of Tim Burton and even Edaward Gorey who inspired him. I regard this
project as the first step on my way to finding my own unique style; a mix of all the details I love so.

The production
For four weeks we worked and lived in the common room of the Blue House at the EFC and hardly
saw the sunshine that was right outside the huge black curtain that was to be constantly closed for
light continuity reasons. A total of twenty sets of hands pitched in, all contributing with a great dose
of creativity. Some would merely join us for an afternoon of propmaking when they had free time
from other projects, others were full time members which gave us a core crew of seven people who
worked from 9 am to 11pm every day.
The film was made as one of the 16 Final Projects to culminate our school year at the EFC – being
the only animation film.
This film is definitely the result of an incredible effort and most importantly: Great management.
Because of a cool overview and control we managed to keep the deadline. There were many
challenges along the way, but they were always solved with creativity and hard work.
I feel extremely fortunate to have worked with such a hardworking bunch of people who not only
transferred my script and drawings to an exact replica of what I had envisioned in my mind, but
always added such a fine dose of humor and detail.

Written by Sally A. Ward, June 2009

Two animation companies has been founded after the completion of this film. Kitty Fish Productions is run by Sally A. Ward, whereas Artificial Clay has been formed by other key positions from the film. Both companies does short films and commercials.

Sally Andersen Ward
Director, writer, production design
zallyaward@gmail.com
kittyfishproductions@gmail.com
+45 61664472

Kitty Fish Productions
kittyfishproductions@gmail.com
+45 61664472

Niels Michael Wee
Producer
Niels.wee@hotmail.com
+45 31240588

Artificial Clay
Artificial.clay@gmail.com
+45 31240588

Cast: Niels Wee, Ina Fischlin, Sally A. Ward and Sandra Thomas

Basement Jaxx - My Turn - live visuals

tomek ducki — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:31:01 -0500

on a 7m long LED screen behind the guys, for this year`s tour
the music on this animation is an instrumental version
in cooperation with Toby Jackman (bear dance)
(the original resolution is 1080*288)
check out the music video version: vimeo.com/7373036

tomekducki.com

Cast: tomek ducki, Toby Jackman

Zlatá Rybka

Jacob Mendel — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:44:24 -0500

My final project from a semester abroad at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU)

Cast
Andrej Šoltés
Norbert Žid
Jorge Sánchez

Direction and Cinematography: Jacob Mendel
Written by: Jacob Mendel and David Walker
Editing: Jorge Sánchez
Producer: Veronika Kührová
Mentor: Ivo Trajkov

Cast: Jacob Mendel

Eclectic Method - Haul The Decks 2009

Eclectic Method — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:50:11 -0500

Tis The Season to be Remixed

eclecticmethod.net
twitter.com/eclecticmethod
myspace.com/eclecticmethod
youtube.com/eclecticmethod
flickr.com/eclecticmethod
bit.ly/emfacebook

Cast: Eclectic Method

Night Light

Colin Hesterly — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:05:57 -0500

My first venture into Form. Inspired by my Christmas Tree. Enjoy.

Music: "Sogg" - Amiina

Cast: Colin Hesterly