Some considerable talent is on display in this fan-made trailer for Blizzard’s StarCraft. Either those responsible for this effort are looking for work at Blizzard or they just really, really love StarCraft.

Popular children’s book ‘Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs‘ is set to hit the big screen in September, created by Sony Pictures Animation. A new trailer has been released in HD glory.

One thing generally lacking in American CGI movies is soul. In the never-ending chase for ever-larger box-office returns, American CGI movies forsake emotional integrity for cheap, pop-culture gags and are typically nothing more than a visual snack soon forgotten. If you want a little integrity in your movies then you’re either stuck watching independent or foreign films, and such is the case even with animated faire.

The Kinematograph is the latest animated short from Oscar nominated Tomek Baginski (The Cathedral, Fallen Art), slated for release in Poland next month. It is based on the graphic novel Revolutions, by Mateusz Skutnik. Below you will find the trailer.

For more information on the movie, head here.

Computer graphics are so prevalent that you just expect everything to be manipulated at some level, especially music videos. But here’s a video for the song We Got Time, animated by wunderkind David Wilson, that makes no use of computers, though you’d swear it does. Mr. Wilson uses praxinoscopes and record turntables in perfect sync to create the artistic creation you see above.

According to Wikipedia, a praxinoscope is:

…an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The praxinoscope improved on the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors, placed so that the reflections of the pictures appeared more or less stationary in position as the wheel turned. Someone looking in the mirrors would therefore see a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, with a brighter and less distorted picture than the zoetrope offered.

Below, you’ll find a short video on how this effect was achieved.