Stunning Stop-Motion Animation: Ten Examples

by Scott on January 27, 2010 · 23 comments

in Galleries and Collections,Video

Lately if you have been browsing the video sharing web sites and communities, you’ve seen a rise in stop-motion animated clips, from commercials to music videos and school projects. Stop-motion is simply frame-by-frame animation using still photos, with objects and/or actors moved incrementally between shots to create the illusion of movement. It’s an old medium, pre-dating the advent of modern motion picture and video cameras.  And it can be pretty labor-intensive! But it also can produce some spectacular effects, as in the following set of some favorite (and mostly fairly recent) stop-motion shorts. Anything here to provide new ideas or inspiration to designers? I think plenty, but you be the judge.

1. KaBoom! by PES

This is the latest work by the amazing stop-motion film artist known as PES. If you haven’t come across PES before, enjoy!

2. Deadline: Post-It Stop-Motion

You don’t need a lot of crazy props to make great stop-motion animation, as demonstrates in his remarkable work with colored post-it notes.

3. The PEN Story

Simple in concept, this gorgeous short required shooting over .

4. TXT ISLAND

A beautiful short stop-motion film by Chris Gavin using nothing but plastic sign board letters.

5. MUTO: Graphiti Stop Motion by BLU

Don’t miss this one! Fantastic stop-motion animation executed on public walls of Buenos Aires and Baden by the artist BLU.

6. Guerreiros Malandrops® “O Filme”

7. Ivan Ives – All My Life (Official Video)

A brilliantly frenetic montage of stop-motion techniques.

8. Sorry I’m Late

This one is masterful! Animation is shot by a ceiling-mounted camera, with the “landscape” moving underneath. See how it was made.

9. Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie

A classic.

10. Food Fight

A history of US military engagements from World War Two on, as depicted by iconic national food items.

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Michael Mallon January 28, 2010 at 6:25 am

Some cool videos there!! you should check out Anim8stopmotion.com, theres loads of stop motion videos. some pretty good 2.

Offset Printing Company February 23, 2010 at 4:53 pm

As a Scrabble fan I like how Ivan Ives incorporates the letter tiles into his work.

bricolage.108 July 18, 2010 at 10:00 am

Thank for compiling this, some classic picks. I’ve created a youtube playlist with the best stop motion music videos maybe you would like to check it out.

william August 19, 2010 at 3:38 am

check this out, really original approach to stop motion. this should be included in your next post about it

http://vimeo.com/13164724

raf December 4, 2010 at 7:19 am

very cool videos

raf January 15, 2011 at 5:57 am

raf

They are very nice videos. Thanks for sharing.

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Ucuz Otel May 21, 2011 at 8:29 am

Loved it. Thanks for putting that all together..

Tatil May 21, 2011 at 8:31 am

My favorite is number 6. Number 4 is not so bad.

raf May 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm

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ulasimhaberi.com June 14, 2012 at 11:42 am

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Chris Gavin December 29, 2012 at 10:37 pm

Hi Scott.
A bit late in the day, but thanks for including my film TXT ISLAND in your picks! I’m still working with this typography/animation concept, and although my new work isn’t stop motion ( I’m putting out an episodic series of web films called THE FUTURA GOLD) I Hope you like it too : )
Chris

İMplantdis.com.tr İmplant Diş August 1, 2013 at 12:57 am

You’re so interesting! I do not think I have read through anything like this before. So great to find someone with some genuine thoughts on this issue. Seriously.. many thanks for starting this up. This site is something that is required on the internet, someone with a bit of originality!

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