‘Dorm Life’ Series Spoofs College Experience

Production: Attention Span Media, founded by Garrett Law, A.J. Lewis and Peter White, got its start doing contract work for local TV stations and companies in need of video elements. It was during one of these gigs, where they created 1,200 clips for a mobile phone greetings company, that they met Chris Smith, a UCLA student brought on board as extra hands. In June, the Attention Span guys and Smith began discussing ideas he developed with six members of his college sketch-comedy group. Enter “Dorm Life,” the debut Web series from Attention Span’s full-service production studio. The series, created, written and directed by Smith and his comedy troupe buddies, takes a mockumentary format that follows the lives of 10 college floormates. It’s like “The Office”...  More »

Featured Video: Labor of Love Draws More Attention Than Cash

Montreal animator and filmmaker Tyler Gibb spent four long years making “Minushi,” a feature-length animated movie divided into 19 serialized portions for the Web. The 94-minute anime-influenced sci-fi film was...  More »

‘Fish’ Lands Crackle Prize

In March, Sony’s premium online Web video site Crackle.com named Seoul native and fledgling animator HyunJeen Lee as the winner of its latest “Shorts” contest. The site offers Web video...  More »