02.27.10
Prepare to be blown away.
02.24.10
The music for this short film was made entirely from sounds recorded from a collection of antique cameras. The imagery is comprised of over six thousand still photos shot and edited together via stop motion animation.
02.16.10
It’s pretty much impossible not to like and appreciate the amount of work that went into creating this little stop motion video. You might recognize the guys in the video from I Love Local Commercials. It gets a little self-promo heavy at the end but that’s part of the genius behind these two gents, they just know how to market themselves.
Via my brothers-in-arms at Joyengine.
01.19.10
“I drift, half awake, half asleep. Moving through the city I recall but have never been to.”
This short film was made by Mustard Cuffins using a digital stills to create stop motion animation.
12.11.09
Video by Niles Atallah, Cristobal Leon & Joaquin Cociña. Luis is the 2nd short video of the series “Lucía, Luis y el lobo” (”Lucía, Luis and the Wolf”), it is a follow-up to the short video Lucía. The video was shot frame by frame with a digital photo camera. Materials: charcoal, dirt, flowers, found objects and cardboard.
11.25.09
A breath taking stop motion advert by The New Zealand Book Council
09.16.09
The latest video for Grizzly Bear.
Grizzly Bear - While You Wait for the Others
Director - Sean Pecknold
DP - Michael Ragen
AD - Tristan Seniuk
Illustrations - Toby Liebowitz
Animators - Sean Pecknold & Britta Johnson
Producer - Joy Saez
4 faced mask - Jack Strain
Record label - Warp
Special thanks - Robin, Lisa, Greg, and Aja Pecknold,
Jennifer Popochock, Toby Liebowitz
Center Valley Animal Shelter
08.25.09
This is just a really great video for a really great song. There isn’t much more you can say than that. Once again, stop motion reigns supreme in 2009 and this is probably one of the year’s best examples. The art direction is top notch. Beautiful work.
Full credits (and there’s a lot of them):
Created By: Exploding Motor Car
Producer: Geoff Mclean
Production Company: Vision Film Co
Animation Director: Brett Long
Stop Motion Animator: Mike Weiss
Production Designers: Winston Hacking, Jeff Garcia, Daijaro Hama
Live Action DP: Barry Cheong
Stop-Mo DP: Drew Fortier
Editor: Marc De Pape
Post FX: Jesse Ewles
1st AC: Julia Seidman
Gaffer: Cliff Ramnauth
Makeup: Kenji Sato
Sets+Prop Builders: Martin Macpherson, Jay Graham
08.06.09
“Stop-motion film, written, animated, & directed by Dan Blank. Winner of Los Angeles Film Festival (Best Short, 2002), 2002 Student Academy Award (Bronze) & 2003 Student Emmy Award (Gold).
In August of 1945, in a closing chapter of the second World War, a blinding flash lit the sky over Hiroshima. The places that were shielded from that searing light became permanent shadows on the city’s walls and streets, while the city itself was decimated. “Shadowplay” is the story of Akio, a shadow of a young boy, who wanders the city searching for his family, while trying to make sense of the unfathomable atrocity.”
Produced by Dan Blank & Cynthia Allen
Cast: Jennifer Kato, Takeo Matsushita, Jun Kim, Ako.
Music: Ryan Shore
You can learn more about the creator and the project here.
07.28.09
Wow. This is wild. The colors, motion and art direction are all just wild. Can we officially call 2009 the year of stop motion yet?
Credits:
Matthias Sturm: myspace.com/lucifermusique
Directed by Tobias Stretch: tobystretch.com
07.16.09
Stop motion continues to be the rage this year. But that is all good because the efforts lately have yielded some really beautiful results as you can plainly see above.
“Ce soir” is Montreal based band Monogrenade’s first music video. Directed by Christophe Collette, the video is entirely made in stop-motion.
Conception / Réalisation: Christophe Collette
Producteur: Sach Baylin-Stern
DOP: Christophe Collette
Productrice exec. en post-production (Motor VFX): Sonia Marques
Artiste Flame (Motor VFX): Daniel J. Kelly
Artiste CG (Motor VFX): Salvatore Randazzo
Monteur: David Valiquette
Matte Painting: Joshua Sherrett
Directeur de production: Joshua Usheroff
Directrice artistique: Sydney Krause
Assistance artistique: Laura Nhem
Assistance artistique: Ian Cowan
Spécialiste Stop-Motion: Nathan Boey
Compagnie de production: Núfilms
monogrenade.com
paperbagrecords.com
christophecollette.com
nufilms.ca
motorvfx.com
06.09.09
“We Have Band - You Came Out (Official Music Video). Directed by David Wilson in very special collaboration with Fabian Berglund and Ida Gronblom from Wieden + Kennedy. Produced by Blinkink. Shot over 2 days and stop frame animated from 4,816 still images without a single moment of video footage! Take a look at our Flickr page to see every single frame uploaded in high res - flickr.com/photos/39167181@N06/.”
Wow. A lot of work must have gone into this. You can also watch the making of here.
06.08.09
“Stop motion animation made out of paper, for the public transport system in Montreal. Direction and concept by Karim Zariffa : karimzariffa.com. The ad was created in collaboration with Sid Lee agency, assistant of Karim was Pascal Brousseau, and photography by Simon Duhamel.”
I was emailed this last week and just now got around to posting. Great little piece of animation.
05.28.09
When considering this entire short film was created by way of stop motion animation created with stills shot from a camera hung from the ceiling pointing straight at the floor, you just have to kind of look at it in awe and be inspired.
04.24.09
I didn’t realize the power that 42 seconds could wield over my deep desire to travel to Tokyo. Awesome little video. Please someone send me over there. I will generate all manner of design/art/illustration if you just put me in a hotel for a week and let me go crazy in that city.
More about the maker here: Davidleedop.com
