Stunning Stop-Motion Animation: Ten Examples

by Scott on January 27, 2010 · 9 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.

yurtdisi turlar January 29, 2011 at 11:14 am

good and interesting..

Kusadasi March 31, 2011 at 8:20 am

Very nice.. I love it…… Great :)

YGS LYS April 18, 2011 at 10:01 am

Thanks for the great post. I add your rss.

YGS LYS

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