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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!
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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!
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.
via Urlesque
Watch the books dance around while the clock spins in this time-lapse video. It will make you smile. -via Boing Boing
Comments Off 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.
via Jalopnik
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.
via Geek Dad | David Pagano’s Website | Matt Witham’s Website
Comments Off Scrubs alumn Donald Faison loves Star Wars. Don’t we all? He also produces awesome stop-motion LEGO animation shorts. Don’t we all? Uh, no actually.
Like many younger actors in Hollywood, Faison has been quite open about his love for Star Wars. But unlike most of his peers who talk a good talk (or wear the hell out of a vintage T-shirt), Faison is a genuine nerd, and ‘BLACKSTORMTROOPER2′ proves it. Faison wrote, directed, animated, edited and voiced the nearly three-minute revisionist, stop-motion short that kicks off the adventures of JackMove and TheBlack-R2 as they escape an Imperial Space Station.
Link -via Donald “shundigga” Faison, whose original Black Stormtrooper short (Episode 1?) is also available for viewing on YouTube.
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.
via Geekologie | Filmmakers’ Website
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.
via Great White Snark | Interview
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
Comments Off 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.
via Popular Science
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.
via Nerdcore | Official Website
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
(via Twisted Sifter)
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.
via Geekologie
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
This stop-motion animated video is a commercial for Nissan’s efforts to build a zero emissions car. It shows people driving chairs around town, running errands and racing each other.
via Urlesque
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