Awesome Stop Motion

(NSFW: Language, Gore) Claymation master Lee Hardcastle had Peter, Ray, Egon and Winston recreate scenes from Reservoir Dogs, Inglorious Basterds, Pulp Fiction and other Tarantino films. Also, here’s a promising pitch for Ghostbusters 3.

Michelangelo and Abraham Lincoln star in History Cops. This puntastic animated short was made to promote the Blu-ray and DVD release of The LEGO Movie. “I release you from the shackles of freedom.” Yaaaay – what?

Two pro wrestling puppets duke it out in this hilarious commercial for the 2013 Festival National du Film d’Animation. Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels directed the stop-motion animated short.

(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.

Marty Cooper (aka “Hombre_McSteez”) combined doodles drawn with a Sharpie and Wite-Out on transparencies with live-action backgrounds to create this amusing animated short film. Marty also creates silly still images.

The music video for Moving On, a single from English rock band James’ new album La Petite Mort. Stop motion filmmaker Ainslie Henderson used nothing but yarn to weave – knit? – a heartbreaking tale.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Five people depicted as cute plants or animals share their stories of loss – a pet, a body part, a friend and parents – how they overcame it and what they took from the experience. A heartwarming claymation by Fiona Dalwood.

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.

A peek at the life of Elastika, a happy-go-lucky adventurer. Irene deserves a lot of credit too. Using only rubber bands and thumbtacks, director Guillaume Blanchet created a vivid world by leaving much to our imagination.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

(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.

(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.

French Mario and Luigi can play Mario Kart without a video game console. Or karts. Olivier Bolduc and Simon Lachapelle made this smooth live action stop-motion short based on Nintendo’s racing game.

BrickTease painstakingly recreated the classic shopping mall chase scene from The Blues Brothers using thousands of LEGO bricks as their medium. If you have any doubt as to how good this is, watch the side-by-side comparison video.

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.