Star Wars Droids: The Jawa Adventure

Star Wars Droids: The Jawa Adventure from The DAVE School on Vimeo.

"C-3PO and R-2D2 embark on a rollicking adventure when the Jawas hijack an experimental Mon Calimari starship. Enjoy this Star Wars fan film written and directed by Brad Murphy and created in 3 months by the June 2012 graduating class of the Digital Animation and Visual Effects School!" 

Portal: Terminal Velocity

By now, every self respecting gamer should have played Portal & it's Bafta award winning sequel but if you aren't familiar with either game then for the purposes of this post all you need to know is that it features a gun that creates two inter-spatial portals, one orange & one blue, on any flat surface.  The player can then walk through either the orange portal and will then reappear out of the blue one, and vice versa.

Portal: Terminal Velocity is a brilliant short film which illustrates what would happen if portal guns existed in real life... and were wielding by idiots like me.

POrtal: Terminal Velocity from Jason Craft on Vimeo.

Incidentally if you liked that then you might also like this:

Portal: No Escape (Live Action Short Film by Dan Trachtenberg)

And if these two films have left you hankering for a bit of Portal fun, you can always play this flash based 2D version of Portal for free.

Now if you'll excuse me I have a sudden urge to eat cake...

Blade Runner Revisited > 3.6 Gigapixels

After we posted up the Murder video, I was reminded of this short film (also on Vimeo) by François Vautier & thought I'd share it here.  In my opinion, it's as beautiful as it is clever and is definitely worth 4 minutes of your time:

BLADE RUNNER revisited >3.6 gigapixels from françois vautier on Vimeo.

An experimental film in homage to Ridley Scott's legendary futuristic film “Blade Runner” (1982).
Created by extracting 167,819 frames from 'Blade Runner's final cut version, then assembling all these images to obtain one gigantic image of colossal dimensions : a square of approximately 60,000 pixels on one side alone, 3.5 gigapixels. A virtual camera was then placed above this big picture which creates an illusion, because contrary to appearances, there is only one image. It is in fact the relative movement of the virtual camera flying over this massive image that creates the animated film, a kind of "zootrope effect", like a film in front of a projector.  
The whole concept echoes one of the signature scenes from the film where "Deckard" (Harrison Ford) analyzes a photograph via voice recognition software. 

Part of the WORLD EXPO Shanghai 2010, presented by "OPEN THIS END"

Watch this! | MURDER by Yang Tzu Ting

I love Vimeo, more so than Youtube it seems to be the place to find some real cinematic gems.

This (IMHO) is one of them, the tale of a scientist who finds a way to clone not only the human body, but the soul as well - to say any more would ruin it, so just watch it and enjoy...

MURDER from Yang Tzu Ting on Vimeo.