In what is becoming an industry trend, Music video FX impresario Stephan Zlotescu and N1ON score a feature deal from their CGI-fueled video. At RedShark, we’re suckers for a great Sci-Fi short.

Dice Tsutsumi and Robert Kondo, Pixar art directors, are taking an unconventional approach to fund their animated indy short. They’re selling their art to the highest bidder.

We were a little bit underwhelmed when we saw the first footage from the F55, not because there's anything wrong with the camera - far from it;  but because it was shot incredibly flat, and we kind of expected something a bit more eye-catching than that. The whole experience set us off on what was essentially a rant about how you shouldn't use YouTube or Vimeo to judge the quality of a camera

Here's a great way to demonstrate software: build it into the plot of a short film

Here's the first video we've seen shot on Sony's new F5 (as opposed to the Global Shutter'ed F55)

Budgeting for short or independent films

The blockbuster science-fiction movie look is now available to anyone with a good story, creative vision and persistance.

Previously only screened in theaters with the feature Wreck-It-Ralph, Disney released its Oscar-contending short, Paperman, online

It didn’t take long for a sci-fi short to make noise in 2013, courtesy of animation student Kaleb Lechowski, who took a can-do approach in realizing his mini-epic

Approaching Crowd-sourced funding