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Video: Stop Motion London

Video: Stop Motion London

Cued to Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger and Around The World, this stop motion video perfectly illustrates London’s frenetic pace. Trip across the pond, anyone?

Tilt Shift + Stop Motion

Tilt Shift + Stop Motion

Keith Loutit combines the now popular tilt shift technique and stop motion photography in this quirky video. It’s filmed at Tamarama Beach in Sydney, Australia.

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LEGO Nature Simulator Stop-Motion

LEGO Nature Simulator Stop-Motion

Tomosteen animated this delightful stop-motion LEGO short that of a tabletop nature simulator. With the push of a button, a tree grows from seed and flourishes through the seasons, a penguin plays in the snow, and a festive field of flowers provides a home to bees and butterflies.

Stop-Motion Video Tricks

Stop-Motion Video Tricks

Insta360 shows off some slick stop-motion shots captured with the help of its Insta360 Flow smartphone gimbal and selfie stick combo. Be sure to watch the whole video for a shot-by-shot explanation by photography and post-production expert Winga.

Build Your Dreams: A Stop-Motion Animated Short

Build Your Dreams: A Stop-Motion Animated Short

Omozoc is known for their creative stop-motion animations. Their latest clip plays with the idea that everyday objects come to life and play while the humans are sleeping. It’s actually a commercial for Chinese automaker BYD, but you’d never know it until the logo appears at the end.

Mitosis: A Surreal Stop-Motion Short Film

Mitosis: A Surreal Stop-Motion Short Film

Artist Guldies spent a year working on their latest short film, a wonderfully weird and inventive stop-motion animation featuring objects that morph between organic and man-made forms. In all, there are more than 4400 individual frames, each composed of hand-sculpted Plastilina and Fimo clay.

Hidari: A Stop-Motion Samurai Short Film

Hidari: A Stop-Motion Samurai Short Film

This animated short film follows a legendary craftsman who lost his arm and uses who uses a prosthetic arm to take down his enemies. The fight choreography is amazing, and we love the use of sawdust in place of blood. Go behind-the-scenes here, then support their Kickstarter for a feature-length film. (Thanks, Rob!)

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Stop-motion LEGO Cake Factory

Stop-motion LEGO Cake Factory

We’ve seen a LEGO machine that could make pancakes, so the idea of a brick-built cake bakery isn’t that far-fetched. But Tomosteen made their LEGO cake factory using stop-motion animation. The fanciful facility is run by a team of tiny cats, who surprisingly don’t lap up the batter before it can be baked in the LEGO brick oven.

Dreaming: A Stop-Motion Light Painting

Dreaming: A Stop-Motion Light Painting

Artist DariusTwin has made some amazing stop-motion animations using point sources of light and long exposures. This short vertical video transports us to a magical, rainbow-filled world set to the tune of the classic song Dream (When You’re Feeling Blue).

Stop-motion Woodworking: Cafe Tray

Stop-motion Woodworking: Cafe Tray

Making things from wood takes time. But if you’re a stop-motion animator like Omozoc, everything goes much, much faster. In the latest video from their Stop Motion Woodworking series, they created a small tray using nothing a thumb and an index finger as tools.

Ray Harryhausen’s Stop-Motion + Live Action Movie Magic

Ray Harryhausen’s Stop-Motion + Live Action Movie Magic

The late Ray Harryhausen is beloved for his groundbreaking visual effects work in movies like Jason and the Argonauts. The Royal Ocean Film Society delves into Harryhausen’s mastery of stop-motion animation and how he combined it with live-action film footage to bring humans and creatures together on screen.

Walking Caterpillar Stop-Motion

Walking Caterpillar Stop-Motion

Animator PES is one of the masters of stop-motion. For this short but sweet sequence, he created a dozen 3D-printed caterpillar models, then hand-painted them and photographed each of the Lepidoptera’s movements. PES sold an edition of 20 of these as his first ever NFT.

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Stop-Motion Woodworking

Stop-Motion Woodworking

Stop-motion animator Omozoc created this short film which makes it look like wood can be chopped up as easily as vegetables, nails can be tapped in with a spoon, and sanding could be done with a butter knife. The animation was made from 2854 individual images, and no computer visual effects were added.

AKIRA Motorcycle Stop-Motion

AKIRA Motorcycle Stop-Motion

Animist creates some of the smoothest stop-motion animations we’ve seen. In this clip, they recreated Shotaro Kaneda’s classic motorcycle scene from AKIRA, complete with lightning bolts and smoke. Though Kaneda’s quick moves have a different motivation here. The behind-the-scenes footage is worth a watch too.

Stop-Motion Run

Stop-Motion Run

Lord Victor Haegelin aka Patagraph shared behind-the-scenes footage of an awesome stop-motion loop they created on that follows a runner’s journey. The top half shows the top-down footage of the puppets being rigged, while the bottom half shows the finished piece. Flip to the second slide for a look at the animatic it was based on.

Stop-Motion LEGO Pizza

Stop-Motion LEGO Pizza

Stop-motion animator Bebop cooks up a delicious pizza with the help of some unconventional ingredients, including 2×2, 2×3, 2×4, and other studded plastic blocks. The 2-minute film is comprised of roughly 3,300 photos, and an unknown quantity of LEGO bricks.

A Very Brief History of Stop-Motion Animation

A Very Brief History of Stop-Motion Animation

México-based animation house Hobby Creative Studio demonstrates the similarities and differences between stop-motion animation from the 1920s through today. Using the same scene – a pirate skeleton guarding his treasure – you can see how the medium has evolved while still retaining its core values.

Making a Stop-Motion Animation for Will Smith

Making a Stop-Motion Animation for Will Smith

For Halloween 2020, animator Lawrence Becker created a stop-motion short featuring a miniature Will Smith carving a pumpkin with a tiny sword. This behind-the-scenes look at how he made it is just as awesome as the animation itself. Also, his stop-motion Danny Devito Penguin pumpkin would make Tim Burton proud.

Stop-Motion Tattoo

Stop-Motion Tattoo

Montréal tattoo artist Phil Berge creates animated tattoos by inking individual frames then photographing them in sequence. His most incredible work so far is this 76 tattoo scene based on Max and Dave Fleischer’s 1933 classic Betty Boop: Snow White, featuring Cab Calloway. His Simpsons sequence is awesome too.

Stop-motion Trampoline

Stop-motion Trampoline

As we’ve seen before, Kevin Parry loves his visual trickery. He’s also quite good at making stop-motion animations. In this short clip, he fools us into thinking he’s pulling off jumps and flips on a trampoline, when in fact, he’s just wriggling around on his floor. We’d be covered in dog hair if we tried the same on our hardwood floor.

Sakura vs. Red Bull Stop-Motion

Sakura vs. Red Bull Stop-Motion

Stop-motion animation expert Animist walks us through the process of posing an action figure of Street Fighter’s Sakura Kasugano, as she delivers a series of deadly blows to a Red Bull can. This making-of video is well worth a watch, but if you’re in a rush, you can skip to the finished sequence here.

Stop-motion Leonardo DiCaprio

Stop-motion Leonardo DiCaprio

Animator Victor Haegelin, cinematographer Jérémy Lesquenner, and sound designer Martin Flechtner created this amazing stop-motion short that pays tribute to Leonardo DiCaprio. The clip cleverly incorporates scenes from Catch Me If You Can, Titanic, The Revenant, The Wolf of Wall Street, Inception, and The Great Gatsby.

Stop-Motion Woodworking

Stop-Motion Woodworking

Paul Katz not only knows how to build things from wood, but he likes to document his progress on video. But he doesn’t just shoot ordinary footage. Instead, he records his work a tiny bit at a time, capturing a frame each time he makes a small change, resulting in cool stop-motion animations of his process.

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