This week there's a place for stop-motion fans to start a commotion.
Stop-Motion Commotion
A pretzel takes aim on a piece of matzah bread as a serving of fish and chips is bombed by bratwurst. This recap of American military dealings uses carefully selected food items to represent the warring parties.
Mike Weiss, a stop-motion animator at Cuppa Coffee Studios in Toronto, spent two months of 2006 in his storage locker with a Canon GL1 and a PC with a framegrabber creating this short film.
While listening to a record, a robot envisions his own creation: A young hacker brings the robot to life, but there are complications.
Thawing begins with pod 611-383, as a deceased woman is wakened from cryo-sleep and brought back to life in a grotesque world.
A street musician risks his life to save a child and meets his fate at the hands of an old woman who is more than she seems.
Comedian Manny Schmeckstein can save himself from going to hell... if he can get ONE laugh.