Fan Features

Once you move beyond animating simple stop motion doodles, and start stringing dialog and action together, you're creating short films! The longer your film is, the more time should be taken to plan ahead, writing a script, drawing storyboards, and ensuring that the story is told well. Brickfilmer Jared Nesbit has been posting movies to his YouTube channel for several months, and recently won the Harding University Five Minute Film Festival with his film "Darth Vader's Birthday". I've asked him some questions about his film Super Duck, which is almost 14 minutes long. His answers will be helpful if you're...

Stopmotion Explosion animator Jeremiah Bloom sent this clip to me last night. Great lightsaber and blaster effects!