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Santiago Navarro

Vancouver Film School student Santiago Navarro hits the ground running with an entertaining and lushly detailed 3D modeling and texturing reel

Kevin Whitfield

Rochester Institute of Technology student Kevin Whitfield shows great promise with a motion graphics and vfx reel full of polish.

Alek Vacura: “Without Arms” Q&A

Last week, we posted Alek Vacura’s elegant short film, “Without Arms,” created for his MFA thesis at Pratt Institute. Alek was nice enough to answer… Read more

Sebastian Lüdke: “The Escape” Demo Reel

“The Escape,” another semi-narrative reel, this time from Sebastian Lüdke of Vancouver Film School

SCAD: The Paper Mill

SCAD students Phil Guthrie and Phil Bichsel mixed stop-action and 3D to tell the story of paper production in “The Paper Mill”

Supinfocom Arles: Miam!

Supinfocom Arles students take us on an action-packed ride through candy land in “Miam!” Making-of video on the Miam! site.

Alek Vacura: “Without Arms”

“Without Arms,” the MFA thesis project of Pratt Institute student Alek Vacura

Eran Hilleli: Inside/Out

Beautiful mix of 2D and 3D in this curious film from third year Bezalel Acadamy of Art and Design student Eran Hilleli

Jonathan Hagan: Modeling Reel

Media Design School (Auckland) student Jonathan Hagan crafted an epic modeling reel for his final project.

Bertrand Avril

Supinfocom Arles student Bertrand Avril (Café Serré) launched a website and is gearing up for entry into the real world. Look out!

Meatthew Weaver: It’s Evolution Baby

Fantastic fight choreography and character control in It’s Evolution Baby from VFS student Matthew Weaver

Jurjen Versteeg: Into The Wild Title Sequence

For a class at the Willem De Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam, Jurjen Versteeg revisions the title sequence for Into the Wild

Joerg Barton: I’ll Kill Her

For his diploma thesis project at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz, Joerg Barton created a stream of consciousness music video packed with beautifully fluid… Read more

Surface to Air: Favorite Color and Varathit Uthaisri Working Together

A while back, we made a post about the Bonaroo line-up animation, the basic concept of which was taken from Javan Ivey’s My Paper Mind.… Read more

Ucon “Deep Search”

Lukas v.Monkiewitsch created this ethereal ad for his graduate project at HBK Braunschweig

Axel Brotje: “Kiss Of The Scorpion”

For his graduation project at Braunschweig University of Art in northern Germany, Axel Brötje created “Kiss Of The Scorpion”, a stunning 11 minute animated short… Read more

StopMo The Movie

Supinfocom Arles students pay tribute to Hollywood visual effects in this ambitious short film

Awesome reel from Rutgers University graduate Dan DiFelice.

Awesome reel from Rutgers University graduate Dan DiFelice.

Watch the Ground

1st year Supinfocom student Ludovic Habas creates a visually delicious end-of-year short, “Watch the Ground”

Machu Picchu Post

Supinfocom students Clement Crocq, Margaux Durand-Rival and Nicolas Novali teamed up to create their final project, Machu Picchu Post, a story about the mystical connection… Read more

Christopher Hendryx: Oxygen

If my chemistry classes had been as exciting and entertaining as this short by Christopher Hendryx, I’d probably be in a different profession today. “Oxygen,”… Read more

Who are you? Typography animation

Really nice typographical student animation from Kristian Pedersen (with overly long credits)!

Brian Alvarez

The blogfolio of Brian Alvarez, recent vfx/motion design graduate from SCAD

Gabriel Gareso

Gabriel Gareso’s story is one worth sharing, if only to encourage those of you out there who are looking for a push into the wonderful… Read more