Lately if you have been browsing the video sharing web sites and communities, you’ve seen a rise in stop-motion animated clips, from commercials to music videos and school projects. Stop-motion is simply frame-by-frame animation using still photos, with objects and/or actors moved incrementally between shots to create the illusion of movement. It’s an old medium, pre-dating the advent of modern motion picture and video cameras. And it can be pretty labor-intensive! But it also can produce some spectacular effects, as in the following set of some favorite (and mostly fairly recent) stop-motion shorts. Anything here to provide new ideas or inspiration to designers? I think plenty, but you be the judge.
1. KaBoom! by PES
This is the latest work by the amazing stop-motion film artist known as PES. If you haven’t come across PES before, enjoy!
2. Deadline: Post-It Stop-Motion
You don’t need a lot of crazy props to make great stop-motion animation, as Bang-yao Liu demonstrates in his remarkable work with colored post-it notes.
3. The PEN Story
Simple in concept, this gorgeous short required shooting over 60,000 still photos.
4. TXT ISLAND
A beautiful short stop-motion film by Chris Gavin using nothing but plastic sign board letters.
5. MUTO: Graphiti Stop Motion by BLU
Don’t miss this one! Fantastic stop-motion animation executed on public walls of Buenos Aires and Baden by the artist BLU.
6. Guerreiros Malandrops® “O Filme”
7. Ivan Ives – All My Life (Official Video)
A brilliantly frenetic montage of stop-motion techniques.
8. Sorry I’m Late
This one is masterful! Animation is shot by a ceiling-mounted camera, with the “landscape” moving underneath. See how it was made.
9. Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie
A classic.
10. Food Fight
A history of US military engagements from World War Two on, as depicted by iconic national food items.
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Some cool videos there!! you should check out Anim8stopmotion.com, theres loads of stop motion videos. some pretty good 2.
Fabulous Collection.. Great Post
As a Scrabble fan I like how Ivan Ives incorporates the letter tiles into his work.
An odd and intriguing collection of shorts. Thanks for the links, the short films and the post.
This is a really nice collection! It’s really exciting to see the potential of simple still photos being something more. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent collection of stop motion animation. All are very intriguing to watch.
Great Post, thank you for your always entertaining posts! I just love your different stop motion animations…
Thank for compiling this, some classic picks. I’ve created a youtube playlist with the best stop motion music videos maybe you would like to check it out. http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=691891EBC99A3804
check this out, really original approach to stop motion. this should be included in your next post about it
http://vimeo.com/13164724
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