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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!

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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*

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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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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

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

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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!

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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.

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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

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!

Doodling a robot elephant is so much more fun than etoecology! -via Buzzfeed

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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.

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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!

At this point, there’s nothing very special about taking a picture of yourself every day for a year as you grow a beard. But about a minute into the video, Cory Fauver of Carleton College starts getting really creative. He moves through hallways, spins around, and shows stop-motion animated movements that took weeks to create.

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Watch the books dance around while the clock spins in this time-lapse video. It will make you smile. -via Boing Boing

This video by YouTube user michalbakiewicz shows a custom Suzuki Swift assembling itself in a garage. Think about how much work went into moving each component just a little bit at a time for each shot.

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BUILD!, by LEGO animators David Pagano and Matt Witham, tells the tale of an ordinary Norse woodsmen. When his axe was struck by divine lightning, it began having a transformational effect on everything the wielder encountered. The animation is set to an awesome soundtrack by Jason Mass.

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Shelley Jones and Marko Anstice take a trip through Venice in this stop-motion video by bayougirl. I sure wish those things really worked like that! …except for the end, of course. -via Nag on the Lake

Medieval knights meet a flying saucer, leading to an intergalactic misunderstanding. Joel Fletcher created this stop-motion animation on 16mm film in 1982, long before the computer effects we take for granted were available to everyone. -Thanks, Joel!

Tomas Redigh and Daniel Larsson made this amazing short film entitled “Insert Coin.” The end of the video includes a behind-the-scenes look at how it was made. Last year, we featured one of their similar works made with LEGO pieces.

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YouTube user Keshen8, whose work we’ve previously featured, is back with a second helping minifig-on-minifig mayhem. In an interview, Keshen8 described how he creates these scenes rather quickly:

Q1) How long on average does it take you make a film?
A) It really depends. My second “Dark Knight Trailer in Lego” only took one day, I actually released it the same day as the actual trailer came out, so if I really push myself then I can get things done really quickly. My sets also don’t take that long to make, I usually use cardboard because of a lack of building blocks, I seem to have a surplus of mini-figures though, I don’t know how that happened. The Lego Ultimatum on the other hand took a long time, I’ve had a few people saying how easy it is doing a shot for shot remake of a scene, but when it comes to something like Bourne it’s quite time consuming: getting the shot set up, moving/rebuilding the set to fit the frame, moving the Lego men just right to fit the one or two second shot, converting human martial arts into rigid Lego movement, and all the while physically moving your camera and set frame by frame to get the handheld effect. I can’t really say how long it all takes, because there are so many factors that come into play.

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The band OK Go is known for its innovative music videos. The group’s latest video for the song “Last Leaf” consists of stop-motion animation on pieces of toast. It was directed by Geoff Mcfetridge and sponsored by Samsung, which provided the camera.

Link via Geekosystem | Director’s Website

This clever stop-motion ad for Moleskine notebooks promotes their anniversary line of Pac-Man notebooks. Link -via The Daily What

If growing a beard were only this simple in the real world! This stop-motion film by Ian Robertson looks as if a lot of time went into it, both in recording and editing. -via the Presurfer

Dot is the world’s smallest stop motion animated film. It was created by the makers of the Wallace & Gromit series, who used a 50x cell phone microscope.

Animators at the UK studio Aardman used a 3D printer to make 50 different versions of Dot, because she is too small to manipulate or bend like they would other stop-motion animation characters. The figurine’s tiny features stretched the limit of the printer — any smaller and it would be hard to make distinct limbs. Each one was hand-painted by artists looking through a microscope.

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We’ve previously seen Guillaume Reymond’s stop motion human Tetris. Now he presents a similar video showing Pac-Man. It was created using 111 human pixels over a 4 hour period.

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Talk about cut and paste. Tilles Singer assembled various stills of skateboarders into makeshift milieus, added sound effects, music by Periscope, and created an imaginative video out of it all.

Unfortunately I cannot provide an exact list of photographers beeing responsible for the photography in the first place. I found some of the photography on the web, in Foundations That’s Life and in skateboard magazines such as Monster Skateboard magazine, Limited Skateboarding magazine and Place magazine. Thanks to everyone who made this little video possible!

Previously on Neatorama: Human Skateboard Animation

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This is a sweet ballet -meaning the dancers are fruits, cupcakes, bonbons, and Gummi bears! This stop-motion video was created by Maira Fridman. -via Things I Think Are Kinda Cool

YouTube user Keshen8 makes great stop-motion LEGO videos. Two years ago, we featured his reworking of the trailer for The Dark Knight in that medium.

Recently, he uploaded this video, which shows a street shootout that looks like a scene from a third-person shooter video game.

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We’ve previously posted the wonderful murals and stop-motion animation of the artist Blu. This video is his depiction of the Big Bang and the evolution of life. The story is told with moving murals that sprawl over an urban landscape.

Link via Albotas | Artist’s Website

Remember Wolf Pig? After Takeuchi Taijin released his viral video (now over 2.7 million views on YouTube) Olympus created PEN Story, an ad using similar stop motion process with over 10,000 photographs (Takeuchi’s work was the inspiration).

Now, a year later, we have the sequel: PEN Giant, a stop motion project featuring 355 billboard-sized photos. And this time, Takeuchi is involved. Nice to see an indie artist get some props from Olympus.

Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks Sheila!

Dutch filmmaker Christian Borstlap made this papercraft stop-motion animated music video for a Clutchy Hopkins song “Verbal Headlock”. It shows paper-formed hands playing instruments.

A quick Google search suggests that the previously unknown-to-me Clutchy Hopkins is either a folk musician or an Internet hoax, and I’m leaning toward the latter hypothesis.

via Urlesque | Christian Borstlap’s Website