Tag: stop motion

June 19, 2015 at 1:13 pm

Playing Vinyl Under an Electron Microscope

Playing Vinyl Under an Electron Microscope

Ben Krasnow of Applied Science makes a stop motion animation of a phonograph needle in an LP groove using an electron microscope.

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April 15, 2015 at 5:27 pm

This Stop Motion Video Makes It Look Like This Car Is Wrapping Itself

This Stop Motion Video Makes It Look Like This Car Is Wrapping Itself

Watch this hypnotic stop motion video of a VW Golf being wrapped. The photos used to create this stop motion sequence did not include the person doing the installation so it looks like the car is wrapping itself! For those curious, the wrapping was done by autoapklijavimas.lt. The photo was made from 3500 frames…

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January 15, 2015 at 10:35 am

Artist Hacks Power Glove Into Coolest Stop Motion Animation Tool Ever

Artist Hacks Power Glove Into Coolest Stop Motion Animation Tool Ever

Dillon Markey, an animator for Robot Chicken and PES, modified a Nintendo Power Glove into the most awesome animation tool ever. Markey also reminisces about the first time he ever saw the Power Glove as a child and the impact it had on him. See below for the classic scene from The Wizard. …

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December 30, 2014 at 9:00 am

This Time-Lapse Shows the Incredible Effort Behind Stop Motion Animation

This Time-Lapse Shows the Incredible Effort Behind Stop Motion Animation

At the end of the credits for the animated film, The Boxtrolls, there is bonus footage that shows the painstaking process of stop motion animation. Through time-lapse photography we get to see just how much work is required to bring the characters to life.

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December 10, 2014 at 2:40 pm

Stop Motion Submarine Sandwich by PES

Stop Motion Submarine Sandwich by PES

Academy Award nominee PES, whose previous short film Fresh Guacamole was nominated for Best Animated Short Film in 2013, is back with his third and final food instalment, Submarine Sandwich. For merchandise and additional information visit pesfilm.com. You can also find the two previous stop motion animated food shorts below. Fresh Guacamole is still…

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October 7, 2014 at 3:06 pm

Stop Motion Parkour

Stop Motion Parkour

YouTube VFX gurus Corridor Digital spent a day at the park making a stop-motion Parkour video. Fellow park patrons must have been puzzled by what was going on during filming! I found the blurriness a little distracting but what a creative concept!

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May 24, 2014 at 6:02 pm

Artist Animates Over Real-Life Using Markers, White-Out and Transparent Sheets

Artist Animates Over Real-Life Using Markers, White-Out and Transparent Sheets

Artist Marty Cooper animates over real-life scenes using only markers, white out and transparent animation sheets called cels (short for celluloid). A simple idea but brilliantly executed and quite entertaining! To see more, check out Marty (who goes by the moniker Homre_McSteez) on Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and Tumblr.

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May 1, 2014 at 7:29 pm

This Woman Used Her Grandmother’s Old Possessions and Made Something Beautiful

This Woman Used Her Grandmother's Old Possessions and Made Something Beautiful

This is the most touching and heartfelt tribute you will see today. When filmmaker Gemma Green-Hope’s grandmother passed in 2010, the family had to sort through her possessions and belongings. As she explains on Vimeo: “I inherited some of her clothes to wear, books to read, a bicycle to ride. But how do you…

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April 3, 2014 at 12:49 am

The Shortest Film Ever Nominated for an Oscar

The Shortest Film Ever Nominated for an Oscar

Fresh Guacamole is a 2012 animated short film written and directed by PES. With a running time of 100 seconds it is the shortest film ever nominated for an Oscar when the film was nominated in 2013 for ‘Best Animated Short Film’. Fresh Guacamole was originally commissioned by Showtime as part of its “Short…

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