Awesome Stop Motion

Pop artist Rudy Willingham created this short animation of Post Malone performing his hit Circles by burning images of the singer onto 133 slices of bread. He then photographed each piece and edited them into a sequence to bring Toast Malone to life. He just needs some face tattoos made from butter and jam.

Wren and the VFX team from Corridor Digital created this stop-motion film using 3D-printed objects. They started by doing a motion capture session, then rendered thousands of individual poses of Wren into snap-together model parts. As you can see from the behind-the-scenes video, it took a tremendous amount of time and effort to produce the 2-minute film.

Artist Victor Haegelin, aka patagraph, and his team created this clever stop-motion animation by sticking a series of poster-sized photographic images to a wall. After photographing a girl in the studio, each frame had to be printed, cut out, pasted on the wall, and removed to create the illusion of motion.

In this award winning stop-motion short, a lonely woman lives locked away in the middle of an epic storm. When she steps outside of her house, her keys get sucked into the vortex, and she finds herself swept away in the chaos. But she also discovers the world she’s been missing as a recluse. Directed by Maria Tomazou and written by Marius Scholtz.

Animator Kevin Parry takes us on a wild ride without leaving his studio… or his office chair, for that matter. Painstakingly positioning each object and the camera and then adding sound effects and lights, he created a scene you’d swear was playing out on a busy highway. Check out the making-of video here.

Andrew from Hypno Motion makes some of the best stop-motion LEGO animations we’ve seen. His specialty? Cooking up delectable dishes from the iconic plastic bricks. Working with lots of small parts, his animation style is smooth as silk. We could watch his LEGO coffee video all day. His behind-the-scenes videos are worth a watch too.

Greg Saniatan aka slopsmcgee created this wonderful stop-motion animation that makes it look like he’s making a LEGO flower pot out of clay on a potter’s wheel. He made the clip to help promote the LEGO Botanical Collection, including the vibrant Chrysanthemum set shown in his video. Greg previously “painted” The Great Wave off Kanagawa.

We grew up watching those Rankin/Bass animated holiday specials. Cameron Cortinas has the unique ability to act out the choppy, stop-motion style of classics like Santa Claus is Coming to Town and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Celebrate the season with his performances of Put One Foot in Front of the Other and Holly Jolly Christmas.

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.

Filmmaker Joey Shanks got his hands on an AmScope SM-4TP stereo zoom microscope and hooked it up to his Canon DSLR camera to capture some amazing images of liquids reacting. The mixtures he used included milk, soap, oil, peroxide, and alcohol, accented with glitter. Bonus points for the stop-motion animation at the start of the clip.

In this surreal and amusing short film by Evan Forrest Mann, a boy stumbles onto a glitch in the matrix that lets him convert ordinary cotton balls into sandwich cookies. As delicious as OREOs are, we’re not sure we’d want to eat these ones after seeing what they’ve been through.

Sculptor Oscar Yaquian shows off a really cool variation on stop-motion animation that combines claymation with a time-lapse effect. The trick is how he shows his clay sculpture coming together by hand, interspersed with bits of footage where the head comes to life on its own. Be sure to check out his TikTok channel to see more of his awesome clay monsters.

“Some things don’t have words. So we have to be close enough to feel them.” A mother explains to her daughter how she came to understand the way her father expresses his love and support. Julian Curi aka Righteous Robot spent almost three years creating this paper stop-motion short film as a way of coping with his father’s passing.

This upcoming adventure game from Slow Bros. features artful animations that started as real-world miniatures, transformed into 3D digital models. Players take on the role of Harold Halibut, a resident of a spaceship submerged in an alien ocean on a quest to find a permanent home for his shipmates. Download and play a PC demo of the game on Steam.

We’re lovestruck by Patator’s animated music video for French trip-hop group Chinese Man’s poetic track Too Late. The stop-motion clip drops us into a magical world where horses breakdance and scratch records and storied lives play out on a human-sized hamster wheel.

Animator Lee Hardcastle is known for his gory and twisted claymation shorts, including Rick and Morty’s Non Canonical Adventures. In Dreaming Child, we’re transported into the mind of a young boy whose dream starts out joyful but quickly turns into a surreal nightmare.