“Validation” is a short film about the magic of free parking and positive look at life, what can it bring to you and others. Smile!

Starring TJ Thyne & Vicki Davis. Writer/Director/Composer -- Kurt Kuenne. Winner -- Best Narrative Short, Cleveland Int’l Film Festival, Winner -- Jury Award, Gen Art Chicago Film Festival, Winner -- Audience Award, Hawaii Int’l Film Festival, Winner -- Best Short Comedy, Breckenridge Festival of Film, Winner -- Crystal Heart Award, Best Short Film & Audience Award, Heartland Film Festival, Winner -- Christopher & Dana Reeve Audience Award, Williamstown Film Festival, Winner -- Best Comedy, Dam Short Film Festival, Winner -- Best Short Film, Sedona Int’l Film Festival.

Very interesting short horror story and made very well, I liked all this dark crazy mood. Director Robert Morgan, cast Livy Armstrong, Victoria Hayes, Daniel Hogwood-Kane.

Short movie filmed with Canon 5D MKII and Glidetrack shooter. Lenses used Canon 24mm f2.8, 50mm f1.8, 70-200 f2.8. Music by George Fenton from Planet Earth (very good documentary).

Creator, Mirko Faienza,  of this short film called “My Father’s garden” discovers a whole tiny world in his father’s small garden, at a small pond with small falls, some stones, some plants and plenty of life. Shot on Panasonic 500- Fujinon 17×7.6 HD lens.

“The Sandpit” is time-lapse of over 35000 tilt shift photos taken at New York. This short film was created by artist Sam O’Hare. Sam used Nikon D3 with Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 and Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 lenses.  Tilt shift effect was added at post production. Taking all the photos took 5 days and two evenings at August 2009. Best viewed in full-screen HD mode.

Few more great shot animations of this year and already nominated and awarded.

Get Out

Short movie about Garry at mental institution who is afraid to go through doors.  Number of details in this animation is just great.

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The Lady And The Reaper

It tels story about old lady ready to die and how grim reaper fight with doctor.

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And a bonus short clip from upcoming animation “Where Dream & Day Collide”. This looks promising and music is great too. Produced by Toxic.

So lately I was working on some test short animation rendered in Maya and composed in After Effects, just to learn some new skills. Here is one test scene not final but some progress . It took about ~1000 frames rendered in Maya, at ~1 minute render time per frame in Mental-Ray and 5 h composing. (I should have added some music ).

Short film “The Silent City”, written & directed by Oscar nominated director Ruairi Robinson. It tell story about 3 soldiers traveling at post apocalyptic world, on the outskirts of a once great city.

In this short film, Handsome is searching for love with eyes wide open and he might get lucky if he really starts to look.
Presented by Vanity Fair & Banana Republic as part of Film Independents Project: Involve program.

Beautiful short film animation about one men who is scarred to go through doors – door phobia.