Take a moment to watch this under two minutes stop-motion animation made out of still frames by Willie Witte and try to keep up with the smooth cuts allowing this visual experiment to progress. Witte said he was 'testing an experimental process of printing out still frames from videos and u ...
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Animation has become a privileged medium to adapt "arduous" texts, such as poems, and to talk about delicate subjects, especially when it comes to childhood and its related traumas. Take a moment to watch 'To This Day', a six minute animation and the result of a collaboration between severa ...
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I started looking a little bit into details at Sundance 2013 and realized that when you broke them down, there were even less slots available to have your film in competition than I thought. This year had 12,146 films submitted, and out of those, only 121 are in competition (!). Then, as it wa ...
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Sundance Film Festival still feels like the Grail of Independent Filmmakers. In disgrace for few years after too few distribution deals were made and too many not-so-indie projects were selected, it really picked up again two years ago, when its Grand Jury Winner, Like Crazy, sold for $4 mill ...
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Happy news people of the world with an Internet connection and reading this article, Pixar's new short movie is out and it sweats Party Vibes! Get ready to spend time with Rex, from the Toy Story world, in a bathtub. Here is how Pixar pitches Partysaurus Rex : After the short, stick aroun ...
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With 48h of video content uploaded on Youtube only, it's becoming harder and harder to keep track of everything new worth watching, and that's without mentioning archived videos. So I am always happy when a friend share his/her knowledge and helps expand my horizon. I have been fortunate e ...
Continue Reading![[ICYMI] Pixar 22 Storytelling Rules](http://www.mentorless.com/wp-content/themes/obscure/timthumb.php?src=http://www.mentorless.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/brave-pixar-poster11.jpg&w=150&h=150&zc=1&a=tc "[ICYMI] Pixar 22 Storytelling Rules")
After Andrew Stanton Ted's Talk on the clues to a great story, it's five years Pixar's story artist Emma Coats who shared storytelling rules learned over her 5 years experience in the animation company via her Twitter account. Thankfully, io9 picked up the tweets almost a month ago, and I f ...
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I was working on a much more serious article about the Kiss Kiss Bank Bank workshop (the French Kickstarter) during The Cross Video Days when I stumbled upon this freshly uploaded stop-motion animation from directors Kelly Lippmann and Axelle de Biasi. The music video was made for odd-o-mat ...
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Back in January, Ridley Scott and Youtube announced they were launching Your Film Festival, a free and worldwide opened entry film festival looking for shorts under 15 minutes in any genre that were celebrating the power of storytelling. Phase 1 (sending your film) closed March 31st. Ph ...
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It's been a while since the last animated short narrated shared on mentorless, but it definitely worths the wait. The Eagleman Stag is an eight minute no-CGI-all-stop-motion animation short writen and directed by Mikey Please, which was the 2011 BAFTA animated short film winner. As you can ...
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