Friday Animation Fun: Ruin

| Shorts, Showcase | 11/05/2012 13:21pm ruin_biker

Check out this gripping CG animated short, Ruin, set in a post-apocalyptic universe and find out Wes Ball’s inspiration

Friday Animation Fun | Réflexion

| Shorts, Showcase | 04/05/2012 16:04pm reflexion_hero

Watch this cartoon-style CG short and find out how Yoshi Tamura and Paris-based creative outfit, Planktoon, created the painterly masterpiece

Friday Animation Fun | New indie animation: NYC Taxi

| Shorts, Showcase | 27/04/2012 14:27pm taxi_hero

Find out how 3D artist Efim Armand used 3ds Max and V-Ray to create this crazy city joyride. With cool modelling and great arch-viz work thrown into the mix, NY city never looked as clean and sleek…

Indie Film Week | The making of 3D animation Godaizer

| Shorts, Showcase | 25/04/2012 11:15am robot

Find out how this epic animated short about monsters vs robots was created using a combination of Autodesk’s Maya, Adobe’s After Effects and Photoshop. Watch the film here too

New 3D animation: Jamie Caliri’s magical stop-motion film

| Shorts, Showcase | 20/04/2012 15:41pm rabbit_1

Watch Emmy Award-winning director Jamie Caliri’s music video for indie-rock group The Shins’ The Rifle’s Spiral track. See the making-of video here

Friday Animation Fun: unnamed soundsculpture

| Shorts, Showcase | 13/04/2012 15:30pm unnamed5

Check out this free flowing animation, created using Krakatoa within Max, which brings to life a digital figure consisting of 22,000 points. Watch the film and the making of documentary…

New short Fubar Redux created with Nuke

| Shorts, Showcase | 10/04/2012 15:46pm cat_fubar_12-04-12

Watch Hasraf ‘HaZ’ Dulull’s new animited comic-style movie, Fubar Redux – a unqiue short created using Nuke – which portrays the atrocities of an on-going political war between cats and dogs

Friday Animation Fun: Waking Gus

| Shorts, Showcase | 06/04/2012 15:30pm Gus02

Find out how this comedic animated short about a guy with a passion for working nine-til-five was created using a combination of Maya, Nuke and Mental Ray. Watch the short here too

Friday Animation Fun: I Grew Up Thinking I Was An Eagle

| Shorts, Showcase | 30/03/2012 15:30pm frame05

Find out how this short but very sweet animation was created using a combination of Cinema 4D and After Effects. Watch the film here too

Short Cuts: Worlds Apart

| Shorts, Showcase | 21/03/2012 10:00am worlds1

In issue 155 of 3D World we talk to director of student short Worlds Apart Michael Zachary Huber about how the effects of pollution on Earth prompted the creation of this heartfelt story. Watch the animation trailer here

Friday Animation Fun: For the Remainder

| Shorts, Showcase | 16/03/2012 15:30pm ftr

Find out how this atmospheric, painterly animated short was created using Maya, Photoshop and After Effects. Watch the film here too

New animation short: The Accuracy of Time

| Shorts, Showcase | 14/03/2012 14:27pm 19

Find out how this ultra photorealistic film was pieced together using 3ds Max and V-Ray. Watch the animated short here too

Friday Animation Fun: Synaesthesia

| Shorts, Showcase | 09/03/2012 15:30pm Scene-2

Find out how this new short about a fascinating sensory condition was created using a combination of Maya, After Effects and Photoshop. Watch the film here too

Friday Animation Fun: Insert Coin

| Shorts, Showcase | 02/03/2012 15:00pm Short student film Insert Coin was created using 3ds Max, ZBrush, Photoshop and a bunch of third-party plugins

Watch two children’s imagination race away in this short animation and find out how it was created using 3ds Max, ZBrush, Photoshop and a bunch of third-party plugins

Friday Animation Fun: Temps Mort

| Shorts, Showcase | 24/02/2012 13:56pm temps

Watch this black comedy animation about life and death and find out how it was created using Maya, Mental Ray, Fusion and Photoshop