Guldies on his youtube channel shares his animations, and this recent stop-motion short titled Going Fishing is too good not to share. 2,500 photographs shot with a Canon EOS 600D entirely on his bedroom desk make up this charming and clever movie.
Paris In Motion - Beautiful Timelapses of the City of Light
Mayeul Akpovi has created these three stunning time-lapse stop-motion videos as part of his “Paris in Motion” series.
Light Painting Animation by Darius Twin
Light Sculptures Around California
Light painting photographer Darren Pearson created this stop motion animation, “Lightspeed,” in locations across California: Mono Lake, Big Sur, Trona Pinnacles, Death Valley, Sequoia, Joshua Tree, Lake Tahoe, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
“I’ve spent many nights in the middle of nowhere with coyotes howling in the distance while I look like some idiot at a rave waving around an LED."
Sub Shop - Fantastical Animated Short from PES
PES has brought us some awesome stuff before (The Deep: Stop-Motion Animation of Ordinary Things), and here is Submarine Sandwich. Love it.
Lego Stop-motion Thriller
Truly outstanding use of LEGO stop-motion.
Seeing into objects by sanding into them
Laurin Döpfner uses an industrial sander to remove milimeter-thick layers of wood, electronics, and even bones to create this amazing stop motion video.
COMBO - Stop-motion Street Art Graffiti Movie from Blue
Blu has made a name for himself making some truly gorgeous graffiti projects that play with time and location. Here is one of the ones that introduced me to him.
Here too is a collaboration with JR.
Beautiful Wooden Stop-Motion Music Video - Colourblind
Australian animation firm Oh Yeah Wow (we've seen their work before for Gotye's Easy Way Out) working with geometric pieces of wood gorgeously illustrate the music video for the single Colourblind by Elliot the Bull.
Handcrafted Stop-Motion - Move Mountain
Just lovely.
"A girl journeys through a vibrant, pulsing, macrocosmic landscape, but a precipitous incident compels her to venture up a mountain in an attempt to save herself. A story about illness, perseverance, and our connection to everything around us."
The Deep: Stop-Motion Animation of Ordinary Things
We've seen PES and his stop motion animations before (Guacamole for example). And here is his stop-motion animation of the deep ocean featuring ordinary household items such as tools, chains, and keys.
Woodcut Stop-Motion Movie Made of 800 Frames of Maple
The New American uses 800 individual laser-cut maple blocks as frames in this stop-motion movie by designer Nando Costa .
Costa says:
The abstract storyline showcased in this piece is a concoction of a variety of ideas and can perhaps be described as a union between concepts and experiments born during the Situationist movement and real life events experienced during the last few years in American society. Particularly the duality between the economic downturn and the shift in values and beliefs of many citizens.
Haircut in Reverse - Stop-Motion
I am trying to get my head around the planning and steps needed to pull this off this well...
oh, awesome... the Behind the Scenes video is below...
Song of the Day - Easy Way Out by Gotye
After Gotye's first amazing hit and video "Somebody I used to know", it would take something as fun and clever as this stop-motion video to follow it up.
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Behind the Scenes of LightSpin with Eric Paré
We saw LightSpin about a month ago and were blown away with the meticulous effort and clarity of vision from Eric Paré that were needed to achieve the effect. As promised, here is the Behind The Scenes video.
From the project page:
"This is the story of how I managed to take half a million pictures of contemporary dancers in the dark using light-painting, stop-motion and bullet-time techniques."
Also see the full video »
Using 625 Pinhole Cameras to Create a Magnificent Stop-Motion Music Video for London Grammar
The astonishing video for London Grammar's new single Wasting My Young Years was shot in a series of simultaneous exposures of 625 pinhole cameras using a huge circular rig which has many small boxes built into it.
The behind the scenes video below details the imaginative and laborious process.
PERU & BOLIVIA - a stop-motion journey
LOCATIONS: Arequipa, Chivay, Colca Canyon, Cusco, Huacachina, Ica, Laguna Colorada, La Paz, Lima, Machu Picchu, Puno, Salar de Uyuni, Solar de Manana geysers, Termas de Polques, Valles de Rocas
Shooting a Stop-motion Video Through Drops of Water
We've seen amazing things shot through falling drops of water before. But this is something different. Synchronizing 2,000 shots through falling drops of water to create this stop-motion promo for IdN Magazine is truly outstanding.
The video, “Entropy”, was created by Physalia.
They built a custom Arduino-based system to capture each drop in precisely the right spot.
The early tests and making-of video shed a lot of light on the amazing process.
Dance, Stop-Motion and a 360° Camera Rig: LightSpin
Timecode Lab and Eric Paré have developed this project is called LightSpin using a special camera rig of 24 DSLR cameras.
They’re planning to release a making-of video a month from now, on May 29th, 2013.
Playmobil Surfing
Super fun stop-motion surfing video.