LOOM (Short Film)

Like short stories, short films are quick, easily consumable, bite-size experiences. But, lately, it seems as if the short films are going toe-to-toe with their longer cousins in terms of production quality and subject matter depth. LOOM is a brilliant example. As an animated short, this is a gut-wrenching yet life-affirming snippet of the world around us. Watch it below:

Loom from Polynoid on Vimeo.

Polynoid, the company that produced this has a few others they created before. Including their violently fascinating and creepy snail movie and the weirdly funny flap flap.

Short and blended well

Blender is one of those tools you hardly ever hear about, and when you do, everything about it seems unreal. Blender is an open source, cross-platform tool for rendering 3D objects. In other words, you can use Blender to produce fully immersive three dimensional worlds. And render them either as stills (photographs) or movies.

From time to time, Blender Foundation releases short movies that showcase the capabilities of this powerful open source software. The latest in the series is called Sintel. The foundation had earlier released two other short movies called Elephant’s Dream and Big Buck Bunny. Sintel is embedded next, and the other two are embedded after the break.