Featured Animation:

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  Captain Stargood: Trailer

  (Stop Motion)
  [ 0:35 - from YouTube ]

  Created and pitched as if it were archives from a real 1950's Sci-Fi TV show, this black-and-white puppet-based comedy is full of Atomic Space-Race spoofs and wry sexual innuendos. "Lost in Space" gone terribly awry. It's smart, funny, and the intentionally cheesy FX and fake model spaceships are spot on. Well done.  view

  

  Indie Music Expert Varlo Vanore
  Writer, Musician
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  Sneak Peak: Superbowl ’09 Ad

  (3D)
  [ 1:00 - from Pepsico ]

  Pirouetting punters in 3D – mixed with Dreamworks-animated lizards. It’s possible the ad team behind SoBe had a little trouble picking a concept for this year’s Big Spot, but as the “first-ever 3D Super Bowl commercial, they are already making a splash. view

  

  Journalist / Web Producer Melissa Roth
  Journalist, Author, Web Producer
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  Slow Motion Bullet

  
  (Time-lapse)
  [ 9:59 - from YouTube ]

  Fans of the show "Time Warp" will especially appreciate this awesome clip of bullet impacts, slowed down to detailed, luminous perception. The high-speed camera captured images impossible to see with the human eye, creating a video that resembles animation more than documentation. Neat stuff.  view

  

  Film Buff Chris Brenner
  Post Production Point Man, Border Patrol, Scarecrow
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  Walking

  (Experimental)
  [ 5:06 - from NFB ]

  A gorgeous tribute to the everyday action of walking. This short was created by the legendary, recently deceased National Film Board of Canada animator Ryan Larkin. The trippy drawings, techniques, music, and outfits are straight out of 1968 in this sure-footed, two-footed mini-masterpiece.

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  eGuider Ezra Soiferman
  Award-winning Canuck documentary filmmaker, street photographer and blogger.
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  Mars

  (Flash)
  [ 3:51 - from YouTube ]

  Very cool quasi-8 bit animation in this short that utilizes sci-fi to tell an environmental story. Great use of sound and best heard with headphones. Though the story appears to be about humans, it raises the question about how another intelligent civilization may one day view mankind as simply something in the way to exploiting natural resources. view

  

  Core eGuider William D. Colella
  Writer, Web Producer
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  Dove Evolution Parody

  
  (Time-lapse)
  [ 1:15 - from YouTube ]

  In this parody of the Dove commercial in which makeup and computer wizardry turn a pretty girl into a fabulous supermodel, a pretty guy is turned into, well, that guy you saw down at the shore last week, the vision of whom is unfortunately seared into your memory.  view

  

  Feature Writer Kate O'Hare
  Feature Writer/Columnist at Tribune Media Services
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  Get Unplugged

  (Claymation)
  [ 2:11 - from YouTube ]

  Do you know someone who's personal life is being affected by the epidemic of Screen Addiction? If so, it's time to intervene, and this video is a good start. Watch this video at least once to remind yourself of how unhealthy it is to sit alone in front of computers and TVs all day. Very nicely animated, especially the cute caterpillar. view

  

  Core eGuider Marc Ostrick
  Co-Founder, eGuiders
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  Confederate Fruit: Rebel Song

  (Experimental)
  [ 2:00 - from Vimeo ]

  What a funny combination. A Civil War song performed by a fruit choir. An enjoyable slice of weirdness from animator and videomaker Michael Nason.  view

  

  Core eGuider Graham Mason
  Writer, Videomaker, Member of Sunset Television