Henry Selick, director of Coraline, gives a fascinating insight into what might be a puppet’s point of view, with a cleverly worked animation as an example (00:57-1:06).

This noir-style short film, directed Arev Manoukian of Spy Films, contains some extraordinary post production work as documented in this making-of video. It takes the feeling of love at first sight, and presents it in a visual form.

Nuit Blanche explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection in a hyper real fantasy

This is a short film directed by Gavin Kelly. It was filmed, vfx’ed and composited all in just 4 days as part of the 4 day Film catagory in the Darklight Film Festival.

It follows 4 MMORPG players taking about their online persona’s. As they tell their stories, we see them go about their everyday lives against the mundane backdrop of city life…but as their Avatars.

Skyler Page’s Crater Face is a touching short film created for a second year project at CalArts. It’s about an astronaut who discovers two lonely moon pimples and decides to play matchmaker. He risks everything to bring them together. With all the frenzy surrounding 3D movies, this short film proves traditional animation is still going strong.

There is a lot of hype surrounding this promo video for a new multi-physics simulator by Lagoa Technologies Inc, headed by Thiago Costa, lead technical director at Ubisoft Digital Arts. The promo boasts some of the most impressive particle renders ever seen.