The winner of 2011’s Virgin Media Shorts awards in the UK, Jason Wingard's 2:20 tells the story of a pair of glasses with some unusual extra features. They're one gadget you wouldn't want to get your hands on.
sYou’ll know director Neill Blomkamp from his feature film District 9 (based on his short Alive in Joburg, fact fans), or from his Halo 3 Arms Race video. Adicolor Yellow is one of his more insightful works, looking at a future where we’ve out engineered our own race and created a superior robot that may mean the end of humanity once and for all. Not bad for an Adidas promo piece. The Gift (directed by Carl Erik Rinsch) If Jumanji were made for adults and featured a decidedly I, Robot looking droid, this would be what it looked like. Pixels (directed by Patrick Jean) This could be interpreted as a harsh realistion that an ever-expanding virtual world is leading to the neglect and ultimate degradation of the physical world around us. We prefer to think of it as a compendium of classic games in a colourful 8-bit of special effects fun. The German (directed by Nick Ryan) The special effects budget of this WW2 dogfight film was zero. The Irish Film Board did grant director Nick Ryan €70,000 but he spent it all on live action shots and just knocked up the effects himself, in six months. Impressive City 17 (directed by the Purchase brothers) This stunningly polished short was made guerrilla-filmmaking style with no permanent crew members on a budget of just $500. Much of the CGI in the film was taken from the game Half-Life 2. The directors added graphical enhancements and then merged it seamlessly with the live action footage. The result is the ultimate geek short.
sYou’ll know director Neill Blomkamp from his feature film District 9 (based on his short Alive in Joburg, fact fans), or from his Halo 3 Arms Race video. Adicolor Yellow is one of his more insightful works, looking at a future where we’ve out engineered our own race and created a superior robot that may mean the end of humanity once and for all. Not bad for an Adidas promo piece.
If Jumanji were made for adults and featured a decidedly I, Robot looking droid, this would be what it looked like.
This could be interpreted as a harsh realistion that an ever-expanding virtual world is leading to the neglect and ultimate degradation of the physical world around us. We prefer to think of it as a compendium of classic games in a colourful 8-bit of special effects fun.
The special effects budget of this WW2 dogfight film was zero. The Irish Film Board did grant director Nick Ryan €70,000 but he spent it all on live action shots and just knocked up the effects himself, in six months. Impressive
This stunningly polished short was made guerrilla-filmmaking style with no permanent crew members on a budget of just $500. Much of the CGI in the film was taken from the game Half-Life 2. The directors added graphical enhancements and then merged it seamlessly with the live action footage. The result is the ultimate geek short.
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