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Stop motion Evil Dead in 60 seconds

John Martz — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:31:16 +0000

Here’s a little treat. Lee Hardcastle presents Evil Dead in 60 seconds, made with stop motion.

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Out of a Forest

John Martz — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:14:30 +0000

Tobias Gundorff Boesen sends in this lovely stop motion short filmed in the forests of Viborg, Denmark: Out of a Forest.

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Tags: Animation, Denmark, stop motion, Tobias Gundorff Boesen

Stop Motion Australian Summer

John Martz — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:28:45 +0000

I love these spots for Australian cable channel TV1. The three stop motion shorts try to capture the “quintessential Australian summer”. And while it’s winter in this hemisphere, it’s nice to daydream of sunny days on the beach.

The spots were created by the team at Sixty40.

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Tags: Animation, food, stop motion, video

Wes Anderson’s Speech at the NBR

Ward Jenkins — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:12:59 +0000

Here’s Wes Anderson’s acceptance speech at the National Board of Review on January 11, 2010. I found this highly entertaining. The same goes for the film itself. Loved it.

UPDATE: Someone had their cellphone ready and shot the speech as it played at the event:

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Tags: Animation, Fantastic Mr. Fox, film, stop motion, Wes Anderson

From Flat to Flight

David Huyck — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:43:43 +0000

Portland’s Curiosity Group has posted a gorgeous stop-motion video, plus a printable PDF so you can recreate the main character at home. Nice.

(via Curiosity Group former intern, Corey Thompson)

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Tags: Curiosity Group, papercraft, stop motion, video

JibJab’s 2009 in Review

John Martz — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:40:01 +0000

The end of the year is never the end of the year without JibJab’s musical take on things. This time around, their signature cut-out style is achieved by—of all things—cut-out paper. Watch Never a Year Like ‘09.

I visited Evan at JibJab earlier in the year and he told me how he really wanted to bring more stop motion and hand-made touches to the work they do, and he wasn’t kidding.

One of the things I love about JibJab’s videos of late is the extensive behind-the-scenes looks at pretty much every aspect of producing their shorts. The Making of Never a Year Like ‘09 is chock full of animatics, production art, and more goodies for every single scene in the piece—a goldmine of inspiration for anyone interested in creating low-fi, hand-made animation.

See also: JibJab’s 2008 and 2007 in review.

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Tags: Animation, JibJab, new year, papercraft, pop-up, stop motion

Dee Pee Studios does Lucky by All India Radio

Jaleen Grove — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:23:58 +0000

Ever wonder what you can do with a glow stick? Draw billions of picture with them in the air of course!
I swear animators are the most obsessive people around…. they really make every one else look like they have no attention span whatsoever.
The creator is Dee Pee Studios, which seems to be mostly one Darcy Prendergast.

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Tags: Animation, glo sticks, stop motion

Folded paper animation out of books

John Martz — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:46:51 +0000

I cannot even begin to fathom how long this took. Created for the New Zealand Book Council by Andersen M Studio, this animated spot really does seem, literally and figuratively, to capture the act of using the imagination to turn the printed page into imagery.

It makes a fine companion piece to Scottish animator Eleanor Stewart’s Howdown from Rodeo, which also turns a book’s pages (here, a musical score) into cut-out stop motion.

It also reminds me of the delicate paper-folding art of Peter Callesen.

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Tags: Animation, papercraft, stop motion

An interview with Fantastic Mr. Fox storyboard artist Christian DeVita

John Martz — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:45:49 +0000

I had the chance to interview OneHandClapping’s Christian DeVita, the lead storyboard artist for Wes Anderson’s stop motion adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. Here is the interview, along with several of Christian’s storyboards, sketches, and even some of director Wes Anderson’s thumbnails.

Drawn!: Tell me a little about your involvement in the production of Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Christian DeVita: I was the lead storyboard artist on the movie. I was drafted in early in the production (Sep 2007) along with other 6 artists.

We went through a few passes of the scenes, based on some thumbnails that Wes drew, before he decided he wanted to work closely with one of us in Paris. The animation studio and sets were in East London’s Three Mills studios.

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Read the rest of An interview with Fantastic Mr. Fox storyboard artist Christian DeVita

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Tags: Animation, Christian DeVita, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Interviews, stop motion, storyboards, Wes Anderson

Sjors Vervoort’s CARDBOARD

David Huyck — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:36:59 +0000

I don’t read Dutch, but I can tell that Sjors Vervoort is a newly graduated animator from the Netherlands. Beyond that, I’ll need a good translator for his website, but not for this great stop-motion/hand-painted hybrid animation, made with painted bits of cardboard inserted in the streets of (I assume) the Netherlands.

(Thanks, Julia!)

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Tags: Animation, Sjors Vervoort, stop motion