Monstrosity: a brilliant new animation by Anitos
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Illustrator and animator Anitos has made a stop-motion animation that will make you chuckle. Using the classic song by Ray Cathode, aka George Martin, called Time Beat, it tells a story about a monster being born and trying to figure out its surroundings.
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The animated video for Lilies by Bat For Lashes is simply astounding
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Bat For Lashes’ latest music video from their critically acclaimed album The Haunted Man uses visually stunning stop-motion animation, life-size puppets, and morphing animation. This unique video highlights and echoes the mysterious and cryptic lyrics of the song, Lilies.
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Extreme sports meets stop motion animation
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We’ve seen many Playmobil stop-motion videos, but none as well-shot as the ones by Karim Rejeb, who merges his love for both extreme sports and stop-motion animation into what he calls ‘xtrem stopmotion’ on his site. We really dig the surfing one above (all of over 7 minutes long!), while his most recent work is [...]
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Day Tripper: a stop motion animation from LC Beatbox
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Day Tripper is a stop-motion animation music video I created for Def Wish Cast’s recent album, Evolution Machine. The video features claymation caricatures of the pioneering Australian Hip Hop group, Def Wish Cast, running wildly through the city streets, promoting their upcoming performance and eventually finishing things off by delivering a high energy live show. [...]
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2,000 plastic shapes filmed in stop motion
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Animation duo Kijek/Adamski created this mind-blowing stop-motion animation for the song Katachi by Japanese singer-songwriter Shugo Tokumaru. This video is made up of 2,000 plastic shapes moving in-time with the music. Now if that didn’t impress you, we don’t know what will.
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Zero: a clever stop-motion animation
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Written and directed by Australian Christopher Kezelos, and produced by Christine Kezelos, Zero is a stop-motion animation that cleverly takes a look at society’s minority groups through numbers.”We’re all born of the same matter, however we’re not all born equal’. Zero is born into a world where the higher your number, the more respected you [...]
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Stanley Pickle: an award-winning short film
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Stanley Pickle is a charming and poignant short film directed by Vicky Mather. The film was shot frame-by-frame, utilizing a stop-motion animation technique called pixilation. Stanley Pickle first premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2010, and has since received 33 international awards. This film does a beautiful job of developing and resolving a narrative [...]
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Dragon Baby: a short film by Patrick Boivin
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Patrick Boivin is a filmmaker from Montreal specialising in stop-motion short films. He is often involved in many, if not all, facets of his productions – writing, directing, lighting, editing, animation, special effects and music. After starting out drawing comic books, Boivin ‘quickly discovered that is was faster to tell a story with a video’. [...]
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Win tickets to see Frankenweenie: the new Tim Burton movie
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We love the the new grotesquely gorgeous stop-motion animation, Frankenweenie, directed by the rather bizarre, yet brilliant Tim Burton. Frankenweenie was originally written by Burton in 1984 and is a parody of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. After 28 years, it will be shown in Australian theaters this Summer.
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Thistle: awesome music video by Hundred Waters
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The Pinata’s doom is a cruel metaphor for determinism. It’s pretty much a Christ-figure for the cruelty of children; a sacrifice consecrated to violence and gluttony by millions of nine-year-olds at birthdays across the planet. Florida four-piece Hundred Waters’s video for the single Thistle celebrates the liberation of the beast and its subsequent existential meandering. [...]
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Frankenweenie: a 1984 stop-motion animation by Tim Burton
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Not long after the recent cine-remake of the 1960s TV series, Dark Shadows, which starred the effervescent Johnny Depp, comes another grotesquely gorgeous stop-motion animation, Frankenweenie, directed by the bizarre Tim Burton. Frankenweenie was originally written by Burton in 1984 and is a parody of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. After 28 years, it will be shown in theaters in October. Before watching the full length, make sure you give its 30-minute version a view first. Check out young Sofia Coppola’s cameo in it, too.
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Stop-motion animation made from pieces of construction paper
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Stop-motion animation always looks amazing, and this music video for a song by Josh Ritter is no exception. It was made with thousands of cut-out pieces of construction paper, and every time you think you’ve seen all they can do with the medium, they hit you with some amazing new effect. Definitely worth all of [...]
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Chasing Bones: a video by graffiti artist Pahnl
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Graffiti artist Pahnl is someone who will try his hand at anything – be it film, art or design. In his latest endeavor, he has taken his signature yellow dog and molded him into an urban vinyl toy. First Editions are going for £95. If you can’t afford one, then check out the promo video of how [...]
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ParaNorman: new 3D stop-motion by the makers of Coraline
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Laika’s new film, ParaNorman, a 3D stop-motion animation film from the creators of Coraline, is hitting theaters in August. Even within the computer revolution, there are more people working in stop-motion animation than ever before. Also coming out this year are Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie and Ardman Studio’s Pirates: Band of Misfits, all in 3D stop-motion. [...]
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Vinyl record plays stop motion animation as it plays music
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Now this is incredible! Designer Michael Hansen has developed this remarkable double-sided vinyl record with beautiful, intricate designs on it that act like a stop-motion animation as the vinyl spins on the player. As our friends at Design Boom have noted: ‘Both the album cover and the surface of the vinyl are designed specifically for the song recorded on that side. The images on the record itself (a 33 1/3 RPM) create moving animations when played on a turntable and lit with a strobelight at 50 to 60 Hz’. Best thing we’ve seen all year.
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