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Jacob Kafka's website

Last updated May 24th, 2010
Most recent things:

Animation exercises - Action Analysis I
Animation exercises - Action Analysis II
Fall 2009/Spring 2010
Stuff I made in Action Analysis classes at NYU.
No Place Like Home
Spring 2010
Final project for Sight & Sound Studio class at NYU.
Sight & Sound film #1 - "Dinosaur"
Sight & Sound film #2 - "I"
Sight & Sound film #3 - "Long Distance"
Sight & Sound film #4 - "A Cautionary Tale"
Sight & Sound film #5 - "Continuity"
Fall 2009
My first real films, shot on real 16mm black & white film. Made in Sight & Sound Film class at NYU.
Crossed Lines
August 2009
An experiment in overlapping dialogue. Alternate title: Dial A for Awkward.
The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Abridged
Spring 2009
Final project for Intro to Animation class at NYU.
Evergreen
January 2009
An exciting time travel adventure, or just confusing montages of a guy walking through the forest? QUITE POSSIBLY BOTH.

Most popular things:

Stephen Colbert vs. Rancor
August 2006
My entry in Stephen Colbert's Green Screen Challenge. It was shown on The Colbert Report and got over a million views on YouTube. The rancor model is from SciFi3d.
Watching all six Star Wars movies simultaneously
November 2005
Silly fun project I did that was briefly popular on the Internet.

Most other things I'm proud of:

Incongruitastic
June 2006 - October 2007
An animated webseries about four security guards who protect an array of dangerous and unpredictable lightswitches from nefarious folks who would try to harness their power. Five episodes completed so far.
Beagle
March 2005
A Peanuts/Star Wars fanfilm. Hosted by Theforce.net.
Lightsaber Altercation
December 2004
A lightsaber fight movie. Sort of.

Other miscellaneous things:

Clone fight
December 2004
My entry in the Theforce.net fanfilm forum Lightsaber Choreography Contest III. It got 13th place, out of 27. Not a standard lightsaber fight in any way, and maybe less exciting because of that, but I'm still proud of the effects.

Cave Tales from the Cave
August 2008
My first HD movie. It's pretty half-assed, but half-assed at four times the resolution comes out to be twice as good, right?

R2-D2 vs. Yoda
December 2003
A Star Wars fanfilm. Pretty crappy animation by my current standards, but most everything else about it is good.

Forrest Gump trailer
November 2005
Editing experiment - an attempt to copy the Sin City trailer as closely as possible with only clips from Forrest Gump.

The Sandwiches
October 2005
A silly movie about being quarantined without food.

Video of the Sudbury Valley School beech tree getting cut down
September 2006

List of every movie I've ever seen

Perspective corrected screenshots of the opening crawls from the Star Wars movies

Comparison of two coincidentally similar scenes from Office Space and The Matrix


Things I did for other people:

Dead Panda Comedy
My friends' sketch comedy group, I animate their logos.

Blur
March 2009
Directed by Sourabh Chakraborty. Edited by me.

iSpy title sequence
June 2005
Title sequence I animated for this.

Pitching Lucas
June 2006
A fanfilm directed by Shane Felux, I did some CG backgrounds for it.


Old things nobody would let me get rid of:

Rockhopper
June 2003
19 MB MPEG, 9 minutes 36 seconds long
A 9 minute short about a rockhopper penguin coming to my school.

Untitled weird practice movie
March 2006
22 MB MPEG, 5 minutes 23 seconds long

Ooooooold stop motion thingies:
Cheese
Ring Ring


A few of my favorite things:

Favorite schools I've attended: Sudbury Valley School, New York University

Favorite parents: Alan Kafka, Randy Kafka

Favorite computer animation software: Blender

Favorite movies: WALL-E, Star Wars, Magnolia, Amadeus, Forrest Gump, The Prestige, Memento, The Incredibles, Pan's Labyrinth, 12 Angry Men, It's a Wonderful Life, Sin City, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, Amelie, The Royal Tenenbaums, M, Wallace & Gromit, Toy Story, Run Lola Run, Lord of the Rings, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Inherit the Wind, A Clockwork Orange, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Cloverfield, Children of Men, Groundhog Day, The General, American Psycho, Watchmen, Waltz with Bashir, Persepolis, Death Proof, Day for Night


Things that are me:

Me on Facebook
Me on YouTube
Me on Vimeo
Me on IMDb

Me by email: weirdhat@weirdhat.com