Becky looks up from her phone and her world changes forever.
Live Music is a short animation that has been buzzed about in creative and traditional media circles for several months now based primarily on its unique production history. Mass Animation, a company specializing in "crowdsourcing"the process of enlisting the time and expertise of a volunteer force, managed to put together a large creative community to work on the film via a custom Facebook app.
As you might have noticed, this year we dispense with what has our been our traditional year-in-review Top Ten list (examples here) in order to highlight even more quality deserving content than that stale format allows. The SotW Awards are the result, and last week, after surveying an incredible year's worth of short film picks, we presented our favorite Animation, Live-Action and New Media pieces of 2011.
A snail horror comedy about a group of friends that find themselves out of their element and in a whole lot of trouble.
The viral success over the last 36 hours of the dark fan film POWER/RANGERS highlights the tremendous appeal of the genre. The fact that its creators are in potential legal jeopardy, illustrate the drawbacks.
Instructional videos on how to survive an active shooter attack send a paranoid man into a self-fulfilling spiral.
A little dog visits the big city in search of his sister in this sweet looking animation with a bitter twist
A knitted toy dinosaur must completely unravel itself to save the love of its life in one of the most impressive stop motion animations of the year. A 2019 Annie Award nominee.
A riveting and experimental medium-form film from Ornana ((notes) on biology). A boy becomes obsessed with his handheld recording device, subverting his reality.
A lonely musician falls in love with a mysterious being named Allie. What begins as an idyllic romance becomes a fight for his sanity as Allie drags him into the recesses of his own fragile psyche.
