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Hasbro has created these awesome stop motion shorts to advertise their new line of Kre-O Transformers Sets, their version of LEGOs that come in sweet box sets featuring your favorite Autobots and Decepticons. I guess Megatron was on Santa’s naughty list this year!
–via ComicsAlliance
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This disturbing little assault on your senses comes courtesy of British animator Cyriak, who wants to put the cry back in Christmas. This is how he sees the holiday season- yams giving birth, and skulls sporting Santa hats that explode with new life. *shivers*
–via BoingBoing
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jeff Gurwood recreated the opening scene in stop-motion animation. Indymation, starring action figures, took six months to complete. -via The Daily What Geek
More than 2,500 still photos were taken to make this video. At first, you’ll wonder why they used stop-motion animation, but it soon becomes necessary. Then there are a few “how did they do that?” moments. If you like it, continue for the improved photographic stunts in the sequel. -via Metafilter
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Indie darlings Fleet Foxes have a way with a melody, and when accompanied by this incredible stop motion animation, these songs sound so good they’re sure to make new fans of all within earshot. Enjoy this wonderful video by your new favorite band.
–via Booooooom
Comments Off It took Kalle Mattson, Kevin Parry, and friends over six months to create this cute stop motion short, a lot shorter than the time-frame covered in the video! Watch as history is told via illustrated paper, on an ever turning globe that brings it all back around again.
–via BuzzFeed
Comments Off Kevin Parry took a year to complete this stop-motion animation at Sheridan College. Filmmaker Tim Burton called it “a cross between 2001 and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” And then he said it was “really cool.” -via reddit
Office toys go on a road trip the only way they can, with the help of Google Street View and stop-motion animation in this animation by Tom Jenkins. Read more about this video at the Atlantic. Link -via Metafilter
Pencils are the stars in this stop-motion music video for “Against the Grain” by Hudson. Video by Jonathan Chong. -via reddit
Comments Off It took a crew of 30 people 1,357 hours to move 288,000 jelly beans and produce this cute animated music video for Kina Grannis’s “In Your Arms.” The song itself is quite lovely. If her name is familiar to you, it may be because we featured her break-out video, a tribute to Digg, back in 2007.
-via Blame It on the Voices | Grannis’s Website
The video game Gears of War meets Lego stop-motion animation in this video by Kooberz Studios. There’s also a “making of” video if you’re interested. Link -via I Am Bored
Olivier Trudeau produced this stop-motion ninja duel on his kitchen table using action figures in his spare time. I love the cinematic sound effects! -via One Large Prawn
Moleskine, the maker of iconic notebooks, is producing a model with a Star Wars theme. So it made this cute paper stop-motion animated battle between TIE fighters and X-wings.
-via The Mary Sue | Previously: Pac-Man Notebook
You can think of this as the Inception of stop-motion films. YouTuber EranAmir presents this video clip of 500 people holding more than 1,500 pictures all around Israel, thus creating a stop-motion film inside a stop-motion film.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Curiosity Counts
The “Tron Guy” is back in a new video utilizing multicolored rolls of duck tape to recreate the iconic light cycle scene from the film. Watch the video at the link to see if a stop motion duck tape – creepy “younger” version of Jeff Bridges makes an appearance.
And by “largest”, I mean that the crafting surface was 11,000 square feet of beach. Sand artists carefully shaped each change around an actual human figure. The cameras were just Nokia N8 cellphones held aloft by a crane over the beach. At Dude Craft, you can watch other videos showing how the directors made this amazing video. They’re the same people responsible for Dot, the world’s smallest stop-motion animated film. -via Dude Craft
Comments Off Pinball gets a new twist when you play on the street, with people as the balls and bumpers! This stop-motion video is from the 2011 Animation Block Party Film Festival in New York City. -via The Daily What
This video is an oldie but goodie I thought i’d share with you, featuring some amazing animation painted directly on walls around Buenos Aires and Baden. Graffiti artist and animator BLU is responsible for the mess, which somehow seems to clean up behind itself as the animation runs down the street, leaving a whitewash in its wake. The video even features a slick soundtrack that syncs perfectly with MUTO’s movements across the wall. Enjoy!
via BLU
Comments Off We’re seen plenty of stop motion videos on Neatorama before, but one constructed entirely on a fingernail is definitely a first. Kia had the ad created for its Picanto model, which is, of course, small. The video took 1,200 bottles of nail polish, 900 fingernails, two hours of painting per nail and 25 days and nights to create.
For five months, 25 animators moved and filmed 350,000 Post It notes to mark the opening of a new flagship store in São Paulo for the Brazilian shoemaker Melissa. 30,000 fans took advantage of the opportunity to write messages on the Post It notes. -via Dude Craft
Comments Off In this stop-motion animation made with yarn, everyone is born with a number indicating their supposed potential. The kid born with a zero has a long way to go to catch up. Can nothing ever be something? Produced by Australians Christopher and Christine Kezelos. -via Laughing Squid
Milk crates do their own ballet to “The Dance of the Reed Flutes” (Danse des Mirlitons) from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. -via Things I Think Are Kinda Cool
It’s a ridiculous game of one-upmanship between Michael Jackson and Mr. Bean! Patrick Boivin directed this stop-motion animation from Pascal Blais Studios. -via Laughing Squid
This stop-motion film by Dave Green shows what happens when the refrigerator thermostat malfunctions. It’s a horror story. -via The Daily What
Oh no! This place is infested with coins! This short stop-motion animation was produced by Olly Newport. -via Laughing Squid
Save the date, because there’s some travel involved! She’s from Mayo, Ireland and he’s from London, England, so they’re getting married in Cornwall. This video wedding invitation for Victoria and Paul uses the art of collage to make it memorable. Corey McKenna, who created the stop-motion wedding invitation we featured a couple of years ago for his own wedding, was recruited to make this one. The music is “Keep the Car Running” by Arcade Fire. -Thanks, Corey!
Comments Off Doodling a robot elephant is so much more fun than etoecology! -via Buzzfeed
This claymation chess game is a re-enactment of the famous one between Roesch and Schlage in Hamburg in 1910 which was also featured in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. This video, directed and animated by Riccardo Crocetta, begins with two innocent looking balls of clay but by the end snakes, winged horses, unicorns and sharks fight it out.
Via Geeks Are Sexy
This video explains how those cute little amigurumi figures are made -by magic!
Adam Fisher spent 13 months growing a beard. I had to check to see if we had already posted that part, but they are two different men. Fisher’s beard became a prop for a public service message about our natural resources. -Thanks, Bill!
