When someone invents a new technique for storytelling, we all win. When you watch the fascinating behind-the-scenes video of this advertisement for a British retailer that appeared in CreativeReview, you'll see how Elliot Dear innovated a combination of 2D animation and 3D sets that makes…
A few weeks ago, we re-opened the 'planet5D videolog' - a place where you can share your HDSLR or other large sensor videos - and one of the first things that came in was this video about the Brooklyn Brewery Mash tour and I was…
Now, here's a project I hope you can get involved in - an 11 year old who's making some amazing stop motion movies with her DSLR! Our good friend Barry Andersson's daughter turns out to be a stop motion monster! She loves to make stop…
Here's something you can do to help a fellow filmmaker - vote for this awesome Canon EOS 60D film we highlighted last fall! "You don’t get much better than this! Canon EOS 60D shines in this miniature world" The note that Brad Herbert sent me…
If you've ever spent time thinking about making a stop motion movie, or even if you've tried to make one, you know how incredibly time consuming it can be... well, "Bounce Bounce" by Hilary Hahn and Hauschka should blow your socks off! And there's the…
If you're into stop motion, this short is something you have to see! Shot with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, it packs a message about farming, and is an ad for a restaurant, but that's not the point... there's a boatload of man-time in…
Unleash the power of motion control for animation! Thanks to our close collaboration with Dzed Systems & Dragonframe we're pleased to announce DitoGear™ DragonBridge! [adrotate group="6"] [adrotate group="9"] DitoGear™ DragonBridge DitoGear™ DragonBridge allows you to control all DitoGear™ products from within the Dragonframe software, through the…
DitoGear™ is pleased to announce the release of DitoGear™ OmniHead and DitoGear™ LensDrive. Both new products address the expectations of the most demanding cinematographers working with film, digital cinema, timelapse or stop motion needing a compact, precise and fully featured motion control tools. Both products…
Gravity is a popular subject today on planet5D - we just published "Gravity" on the planet5D Cinema - and suddenly found another "Gravity" HDSLR movie that has a very fun attitude about it - "GRAVITY // UN RÊVE DE DEMAIN" by Filip Piskorzynski. It is…
We talked a lot about the Chronos Film Festival here on the blog and it is about time that we posted an update on the festival itself. The big problem is that I missed most of the festival itself because I was invited to the…
