Awesome Stop Motion

An “everlasting chain of convulsing memories.” Such is the music video for Shugo Tokumaru’s song Katachi. Kijek/Adamski made the jaw-dropping stop-motion using about 2,000 pieces of PVC plates.

Vicky Mather’s Stanley Pickle is an award-winning (and trippy) short film about a man whose idea of life involves a rote existence, of routines and actions without meaning and intent.

Kyle Roberts and his pals made a stop-motion version of the intro sequence to the classic 1990s X-Men cartoon. It was made from ~4,000 stills, 60 backgrounds – and grown men playing with dolls.

Brotherhood Workshop’s entry to the Machinima Interactive Film Festival is an alternate take on the Battle of Helm’s Deep from The Lord of the Rings, casting LEGOlas as a well-meaning but dumb elf.

An amusing stop-motion animation by Marcus and Hannes Knutsson starring Mario as he makes his way through the real world. Created frame-by-frame using Perler beads. Watch parts one and two.

KRE-O has been making a series of amusing stop-motion short films featuring their Transformers toys, centering around the Decepticons stealing Energon, and the Autobots getting sweet revenge.

This creepy but nonetheless awesome animation by artist Erica Luke was created by painting each frame on the face of its subject, transforming a lively girl into a fleshless skeleton in 30 seconds.

(Gore) The bloody music video for Vengeance Rhythm, a single by Two Fingers, a side project of electronic musician Amon Tobin. Say goodbye – or is it hello? – to your childhood memories.

The world of the Lord of the Rings is teeming with monsters and ghouls, which Merry and Pippin take advantage of to play a Halloween prank on Frodo and Sam. A funny short by Brotherhood Workshop.

A fun and Tim Burton-esque Halloween animation done by Auge de Vries by painstakingly carving 400 individual scenes into candle-lit pumpkins and stitching them together frame-by-frame.

Seamus Spilsbury and the gang at Oh Yeah Wow created this painstakingly-animated stop-motion clip for Wax Tailor and Aloe Blacc, as a crocheted quadropus(?) makes its way through the city.

An award-winning stop-motion short by Christopher Kezelos, The Maker is about a creature racing against time to accomplish the most important task of his life. The score is Winter by Paul Halley.

Partir (“leaving”) is a tale of two inseparable characters told through hand-drawn stop-motion animation. The quote at the end reads,“Just now, I heard the heartbeat of a tiny raindrop.”

17-year-old LEGO-maniac Dylan Woodley (aka Insomniac’s) stop-motion video for Foster the People’s Houdini makes us wish all music videos were made with LEGO blocks and minifigs.

HESAV (University of Health Sciences in Switzerland) and NOTsoNOISY created this stop motion video using the 11-story HESAV building as a screen and its windows and shutters as pixels.

Mystery Guitar Man and his friends used motion capture to create pixelated images of him dancing around, then they replicated those images in OpenOffice and Excel. Cell by cell. Go BtS here.

A stop-motion animated film from the twisted mind of writer Charlie Kaufman being funded outside of the conventional studio system so its creative team has no interference with their artistic vision.

Stop-motion master Counter656 is at it again, this time forgoing his usual mecha theme and instead facing off two of boxing’s greats, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, in an over-the-top battle.

During the 11-month-long rebuild of an old engine, YouTuber nothingherok decided to shoot over 3000 individual still images of the process, assembling them into this here stop-motion short.

Another excellent animated short from stop motion master PES – the one brought us Fresh Guacamole – who turned common metal tools, parts and accessories into flora and fauna from the sea.

The video for If You Ever Need Someone by The Family Bones was made by Image Flux using over 25,000 Post-it notes. Watch the making-of video here. The song is available for free this week.

The critically acclaimed award-winning stop-motion animated short by Mikey Please. The Eagleman Stag tells the tale of Peter Eagleman, a man whose lifelong obsession with time does him no good.

The music video for Get By by Delta Heavy is a fun stop motion short film featuring various kinds of toys being tested and then destroyed. But for what purpose? All will be revealed in the end.