There’s still nine months until Tron: Legacy hits, but already we can’t stop talking about it . The latest production shots show something interesting—that director Joseph Kosinski filmed using a lot of actual sets. More

It’s one thing to shoot an entire short film on a Canon flatbed computer scanner. It’s another to do it well . With Memoirs of a Scanner , Mindfruit Films pretty much nailed it. More

Yesterday’s bootleg just wasn’t enough for me. I’ve been trawling the net trying to find an official HD trailer, and got very lucky today thanks to First Showing and their code-cracking people , who deciphered a viral site and found the goods. Just nine months and eight days! [ First Showing via Den Of Geek ] UPDATE: If you want to download the trailer, mosey on over here .

You’d be able to conceive and give birth to a baby faster than the Tron Legacy takes to come out (just nine months and nine days left!), but here’s a trailer to sate you for a while longer. You won’t be able to make much out in the leaked video, but hey—there’s audio! Here’s the official synopsis, if you missed it last time: TRON: LEGACY is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (GARRETT HEDLUND), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (JEFF BRIDGES), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the digital world of Tron where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant Quorra (OLIVIA WILDE), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey of escape across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous. How about someone at Disney, still high off their “Up” win at the Oscars yesterday, press the button and make the official trailer appear on YouTube? Anyone

You’d be able to conceive and give birth to a baby faster than the Tron Legacy takes to come out (just nine months and nine days left!), but here’s a trailer to sate you for a while longer. You won’t be able to make much out in the leaked video, but hey—there’s audio! Here’s the official synopsis, if you missed it last time: TRON: LEGACY is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (GARRETT HEDLUND), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (JEFF BRIDGES), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the digital world of Tron where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant Quorra (OLIVIA WILDE), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey of escape across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous. How about someone at Disney, still high off their “Up” win at the Oscars yesterday, press the button and make the official trailer appear on YouTube?

Photoshop’s got a lot going for it already, but this is clearly its higher calling: to make scrumptious butter cookies with a few clicks of the mouse. Too bad that Adobe Photoshop CS3 Cook exists only as cardboard in an adorable stop-motion video… for now. All I know is I’m calling dibs on judging the Photoshop Cook Contests of 2038.

Yo Carl Sagan, we found the fourth dimension! It was hiding in a South Korean movie theater all this time, and you can go try it out for the eminently affordable $15.80 a pop. CJ-CGV, an enterprising Korean cinema operator, has been offering its 4D experience for a year now, but Avatar ’s sellout success has led it to open three more “4D plexes.” The way the company finally cornered that elusive fourth dimension is by engaging all five senses: moving seats, wind, water sprinkling, lasers, and synthetic smells are all used in time with the movie. Sure, it’s a gimmick and takes a loose interpretation of what the word dimension means , but at least it’s unlikely you’ll fall asleep during the movie, as some of us may or may not have done while watching the 3D screening. Avatar available to watch in 4D, but only in Korea originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

Now that Avatar is officially the highest grossing movie of all time, it’s inevitable that studios will continue to push 3D as the new frontier of cinema. But actually filming in 3D is prohibitively expensive. Here’s how they fake it. Not many directors share James Cameron’s obsession with three dimensional authenticity, and not many films have the budgets to support the directors who do. Filming in 3D requires the use of two cameras, barely offset, capturing all the action in tandem

If you want to give your time lapse videos a nice, smooth pan, try looking next to the pans. Using only an old school kitchen timer and a Go Pro camera, a Make reader whipped up this neat video. The simplest hacks are the best kind, and this $7 solution is definitely satisfying by that measure. By the way, did you see what I did up there with those “pans”? [ Make ]

Sure, a Twitter-inspired, 140-seconds-or-less film festival may sound ridiculous. But it’s given us a great interview with Rainn Wilson of The Office , and some of the films are actually pretty great. Case in point: The big winner, Chicken vs. Penguin . I actually really like this video—it’s cute and offbeat and almost startlingly professional, especially in the editing and cinematography. The winner is Marko Slavnic , a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, who will use his $100,000 winnings towards a feature film.