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Common Craft - Our Product is Explanation. CARL WARNER - PHOTOGRAPHER. Everblue Webcomic - Updates Every Sunday. Nedroid Picture Diary. Lúnasa - The official Website. 15 Of The Coolest Stop Motion Videos On YouTube. While it was hard to narrow it down, this is a list, in no particular order, of some of our favourite stop motion videos, combining the most popular and the lesser known stop motion videos on YouTube.

Yellow Sticky Notes Yellow Sticky Notes has to be the most elegant and creative way to put together a to-do list. Using nothing more than post-it-notes and a pen, this 6 minute video takes you through a 9 year period of the animator’s life. But it’s not just an introspective video – it also highlights major events throughout the world as he saw them happen.

Inspiré/Seattle Ski Stop-Motion Over 1,700 photographs were used to create this 2 minute skiing adventure through downtown Seattle. Game Over PES has an unbelievable amount of stop motion videos uploaded on YouTube. Controversy The plot here is very simple – if something or someone is annoying you – play dead. Pancakes II Change Minilogue The Whiteboard Rymdreglage – 8-bit trip There’s a reason this video has over 6 million views. Lost Things. Instructables - Make, How To, and DIY. 10+ Amazing Short Films You’d Not Believe Were Made With Free Software. Blender is cross-platform so you can learn the basics right now with the QuickStart and plenty of other tutorials on the official site and all over the net. Blender’s not the only 3D content creation software available for free though.

Just to name a few, there’s: Google SketchUp that’s great to create buildings and objects,Wings 3D, a cross-platform, open-source 3D modeler,MakeHuman, another cross-platform, open-source tool to model human characters,Sculptris, free Windows-only 3D modeling and sculpting software,MeshLab, cross-platform and open-source tool to process 3D scans,trueSpace, a free Windows-only 3D content creation tool. There are a few more alternatives which you can see here but Blender seems to be very popular so most of the following open-source-generated masterpieces are made with this powerful suite.

Short Films Big Buck Bunny is an award-winning animated short film released online by the Blender Foundation in 2008. Shorts. Comics and Gaming. 3 Free & Easy Stick Figure Animation Programs. But the best thing about stick figures is that they are straight and simple. Even the most artistically inept guy could draw one. Well, a lot of people do draw stick figures. From toilet door signs to Flash games, from cartoon strips to movie posters, stick figures are there where nothing else quite fits in. Well, there’s no doubt that stick figures are like universal symbols.

You just have to do a search on YouTube to see how virally popular they are. If it’s so simple then how do we make a few stick figure animations for ourselves? Let’s take a look at three free stick figure animation programs that can help us draw a story in straight lines. Pivot Stickfigure Animator Pivot Stickfigure Animator (ver. 2.2.5) is the oft-quoted stick figure animation software when it comes to freewares.

Pivot Stickfigure is just a 485KB download and it runs on Windows. The interface is very simple. Hit the Play button and set the speed to see how the animation turned out. Stykz Image: Beat Machine. 10 Cool Full Length Amateur Movies on YouTube. The movies will make you laugh, will make you think, and some will simply leave you in awe. We’ve sifted through a long long list of movies on YouTube and selected a few that stood out. Bartholomew’s Song Bartholomew’s Song, a 10 minute student film, is A Brave New World-esque story about the consequences of individuality in a society in which conformity is the norm.

Through music, Bartholomew 467 finds a sense of individuality and you’d be surprised at the unexpected twist in such a short film. A great short that will make you think. The Sound Machine The Sound Machine, based on the short story by Roald Dahl, is a thought provoking and beautifully made 10 minute short film. A must for all Roald Dahl fans, but definitely not for the faint of heart. Fifty People, One Question More of a journalistic endeavour than a film, Fifty People, One Question deserves a place on this list just for how beautifully it has been made. Heavenly Appeals Deadline Why? Love and Hamburgers Control An Inclusive Society. Project Implicit® Cognitive fun! Personality test based on Jung and Briggs Myers typology.

Face Research » Psychology experiments about preferences for faces and voices. Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Surveys. Games. The Big Five Personality Test. Directions: The following statements concern your perception about yourself in a variety of situations. Your task is to indicate the strength of your agreement with each statement, utilizing a scale in which 1 denotes strong disagreement, 5 denotes strong agreement, and 2, 3, and 4 represent intermediate judgments.

In the boxes after each statement, click a number from 1 to 5 from the following scale: Strongly disagreeDisagreeNeither disagree nor agreeAgreeStrongly agree There are no "right" or "wrong" answers, so select the number that most closely reflects you on each statement. Take your time and consider each statement carefully. Index of free personality tests and intelligence tests. ColorQuiz.com - The free five minute personality test!