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Butter Ya’Self

Butter Ya’Self

(NSFW: Language) The contents of your pantry have never been as hardcore as in this stop-motion animation by Julian Petschek, a hip-hop clip based loosely on the story of Drake and Lil’ Wayne. We kid you not.

HISHE: The LEGO Movie

HISHE: The LEGO Movie

How It Should Have Ended and Brotherhood Workshop take on the stop-motion animated LEGO Movie, and the implausible capture of all of those LEGO superheroes towards the end of the flick… as if the rest of the flick was plausible.

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Snake 3D Chalk Art

Snake 3D Chalk Art

Another neat stop-motion video from chalk artist Chris Carlson. Watch as the classic mobile game Snake comes alive. Can you believe we only had this and Space Impact before, and now we have freakin’ XCOM on our phones?

Vacationer: The Wild Life

Vacationer: The Wild Life

The stop-motion lyric video for Vacationer’s The Wild Life. It’s a bright and cheerful track from Relief, an album that promises to have “a cinematic wallop of positivity-oozing pop.” Stash this one in your summer playlist.

Action Bill

Action Bill

William Shatner goes back in time to kill William Shakespeare. Two great Bills collide in AMAA Productions’ silly LEGO stop-motion short film. It’s worth watching just for the minifig reverse toupee.

Cachoeira

Cachoeira

While its imagery may seem primitive at first, the animation in Rodrigo EBA!’s stop-motion short about pollution is instantly more impressive when you realize that it was made entirely from meticulously placed droplets of water and coffee.

Woodoo

Woodoo

Here’s another brilliant stop-motion animation made using wood. Director André Maat “wanted to play with the shape and consistency of wood and bring it to life” and made the material behave like clay.

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Swan Song

Swan Song

Stop-motion master PES pokes fun at bland and cliché hotel service in this funny commercial for the citizenM hotel in Times Square. From now on we’re going to request blood red silk patches in our rooms.

LEGO Simpsons Couch Gag

LEGO Simpsons Couch Gag

YouTuber MonsieurCaron recreated The Simpsons’ couch gag three times in this stop-motion animation. He mixed and matched pieces and minifigures from the LEGO The Simpsons set and The LEGO Movie sets to create the mashup.

Colourblind

Colourblind

Creation clashes with destruction in this amazing stop-motion video made by Oh Yeah Wow. It serves a music video for Elliot The Bull’s single Colourblind. Whether or not you like the song, the animation is top notch.

Black Gold

Black Gold

A stop-motion animation by PES, Black Gold was commissioned to promote an Italian jewelry line that features insects. The short has taken a life of it’s own though due to the animator’s expert execution and surreal visuals.

Chet Faker: Talk is Cheap

Chet Faker: Talk is Cheap

The Sledgehammer-esque music video for Talk is Cheap, by electronica artist Nicholas James Murphy aka Chet Faker, from his album Built on Glass. Toby & Pete made Chet live through four seasons in pseudo-time lapse stop-motion.

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Eager

Eager

(NSFW) Allison Schulnik continues her obsession with beautiful decay. Give this short film a few minutes of your time and you’ll be treated to a stop-motion tour de force. Aaron Olson created the film’s score.

Junk Head 1

Junk Head 1

(NSFW/Gore) In the distant future, humans have become immortal cyborgs but are unable to reproduce. Takahide Hori’s Junk Head 1 is a funny and horrifying masterpiece of stop-motion. For the love of God, let’s fund the sequel.

The Boxtrolls (Trailer 2)

The Boxtrolls (Trailer 2)

The latest trailer for Laika’s upcoming feature The Boxtrolls, we get an inside look at the incredible precision and artistry that goes into the production of their beautifully handmade stop-motion animated films.

Chibi: Bionic Commando

Chibi: Bionic Commando

Dancer Bryan “Chibi” Gaynor brings Rusko’s classic Bionic Commando theme dubstep remix to life. And by that we mean he turns into a living stop-motion film. That sitting maneuver was insane, and that dog didn’t even make him flinch.

The New America

The New America

Nando Costa’s stop-motion animated short only has about 800 frames, but it took him over 2 years to finish it. That’s because each frame was laser engraved onto a solid block of maple. The score was recorded by World Gang.

It’s Paper

It’s Paper

The video may look like a stop-motion animation using cut paper models, but it’s actually 100% computer generated. Pingo van der Brinkloev made the amazingly convincing 3D graphics using Maxon’s Cinema 4D.

Ballpoint Barber

Ballpoint Barber

Watch a man inside a photograph manipulate his hair, beard and moustache a la Wooly Willy in this excellent reverse stop-motion short by Peter Simon. The song is by Paul Otteson. Take a look behind the scenes here.

Nitro Warriors 2: Afterburner

Nitro Warriors 2: Afterburner

A follow-up to their earlier miniature action film, Vanguard Pictures helps us relive our youth with a stop-motion chase created with toy cars and trucks. Though a flying jet-powered car is a bit of a cheat in a chase, don’cha think?

Donkey Kong/Escher 3D Chalk Art

Donkey Kong/Escher 3D Chalk Art

While we still ponder how we managed to draw a cube that one time in art class sophomore year, Chris Carlson impresses with this 3D chalk art time lapse of Donkey Kong versus Escher; bonus stop-motion scene included.

Man Who Was Afraid of Falling

Man Who Was Afraid of Falling

After dropping his beloved flower pot, a man becomes paralyzed by his fear that he too will fall. A moving stop-motion animated short film by Joseph Wallace that reminds us to face our fears and not let them stop us from living.

Instagramimation

Instagramimation

Paul B. Cummings & Eriq Wities of Friends in Faux captured 1600 still images and assembled them into an clever “interactive” stop-motion animation on the screen of their smartphone. See how they did it here. (Thanks Nathan!)

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