I actually saw this on motionographer a few days ago. Very awesome for a student film, also managed to wrangle up some decent talent.
Dialouge gave me the feeling he watchs a bit too much shonen anime, but hey. It was a cool short.
tehroc said:
That looked to have some pretty decent production values. I'm willing to bet a larger budget then some full length indie movies. I could see this episode making it's way to some variety tv series for tween/teens.
From what I've heard, it's just that the team of people making were FX specialists themselves, and as such the only overhead was the time spent itself. I'd imagine they spent more money on the actors and filming then the effects.