Lucas Ridley » Neill Blomkamp http://lucasridley.com Animation and hang gliding Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:27:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Blog | Cool Stuff #6 http://lucasridley.com/2010/04/05/blog-cool-stuff-6/ http://lucasridley.com/2010/04/05/blog-cool-stuff-6/#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:57:25 +0000 Lucas http://lucasridley.com/?p=931 Just to reiterate: “Cool Stuff” is just stuff I find on the web and want to share, I wasn’t involved in any of these projects.











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Inspirational

1. Great little short film, reminds me of Neil Blomkamps integration of 3d and live action

A day in PARIS from Benoit MILLOT on Vimeo.


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Funny

1. Here’s an entire show – I love Larry David and Ricky Gervais and they’re together in this new bizarre show. My favorite line from the show was from Larry: “Can we wrap this up I have to go to the bathroom:”




2. Hilarious Old Spice commercial directed by Tim and Eric of the Awesome Show, Great Job

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Film/Animation

1. Awesome hand made stop-motion animation

]]> http://lucasridley.com/2010/04/05/blog-cool-stuff-6/feed/ 0 Blog | Cool Vids | 7D morning http://lucasridley.com/2009/12/09/blog-cool-vids-7d-morning/ http://lucasridley.com/2009/12/09/blog-cool-vids-7d-morning/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:58:24 +0000 Lucas http://lucasridley.com/?p=574 I’m almost finished with my entry for the Nikon Festival. Stay tuned for it – I’ve had a roller coaster of emotions with it. I think if I had 10 minutes to use all the footage I got for this, it would still be difficult. But there’s only 140 seconds to describe your entire day, so it is a good process to try and be as concise and coherent in the least amount of time possible. After this Nikon contest, I have another short video I’m working on that’s due at the same time.

See some Canon 7D shots I took this morning on a walk below all these videos that I thought people might find interesting:

Found this from Cross Country Magazine‘s facebook page. This guy is like a human Transformer:

Big film news is Fede Alvarez, who got a big movie deal from his awesome short film. Read the story HERE. This is the short that got him noticed:

It’s a similar story to what happened to the District 9 director, Neill Blomkamp, who’s short film that got him noticed by Peter Jackson scored him a big movie too. See his short here:

Cool websites I’ve found:

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