More great Star Wars reinterpretations are emerging from the Star Wars Uncut project. Here’s Kiwi Chris Stapp’s take on scene 450:

Back in October, we posted a 4-minute pencil test from Bill Plympton’s upcoming short Cheatin’. Today Plympton posted the second part:

This animated short by Michael Stevenson, his senior film from San Francisco State University, is a bright and colorful masterpiece of claymation.

According to his website – Pigeon Pilfer was completed in four months with sixty pounds of clay, a digital SLR camera, and one tiny hot room.

Tom Ellery, who has a story credit on Beauty and the Beast and more recently was a story artist on the upcoming Disney 2D feature The Princess and the Frog, is seeking completion funding for a 4:30 minute short. The Hunter and the Gatherer is a comedic, pantomimed film that follows the trials of a man at the mall, and below you can see the first-pass thumbnail animatic for the film (the actual animatic starts around 1:00). A shorter animatic follows for another concept titled Cheep Date.