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I was surfing the web when I found this sweet stop motion video. Kristofer Ström put together this video for a musical group in Sweden called Minilogue. All of the images were drawn on a whiteboard and there’s a neat interactive component to the illustrations. One of my favorite things to watch for is when he drags and repositions some lines with his fingers. It’s great to see the artist physically interacting with what’s drawn on the board. I also love how the drawings are continuously evolving from one thing to another. It’s absolutely fascinating to watch!
Ever wonder what some of your favorite classic video games would look like performed by people in an auditorium? If so, Guillaume Reymond has directed some amazing stop motion videos for your viewing pleasure! There are videos for four games that make up the GAME OVER Project: Pong, Pole Position, Space Invaders, and Tetris. My favorites are the Tetris and Space Invaders videos. I absolutely love how the sounds are not from the actual games but are people’s voices! Which video is your favorite?
I love seeing stop motion videos, and I remember coming across this music video for “Her Morning Elegance” by Oren Lavie a few months ago. I enjoyed hearing the song, but what I was blown away by were the amazing visuals! From free falling through the sky to swimming underwater, each scene on the bed was very believable and realistic. I can’t even imagine how long it took to make this video or how many different frames this required! This has definitely inspired me to mess around with stop motion, and I hope to find more incredible videos like this in the future!
I just watched Coraline, and it was awesome. I’ve done a little bit of stop-motion in the past with my animations, but this is just mind-bogglingly amazing. I mean, the animation is so smooth and fluent, and if they did have any digitally made elements, I could barely tell because everything was so believable.
So this was directed by Henry Selick, the dude who brought you Nightmare Before Christmas, and they worked with LAIKA which is pretty well-known animation company that focuses on stop-motion. Absolutely stunning work! The character designs were so beautiful, and the details were so tight, that you could watch this movie twenty times and find something new every time. I was watching the featurettes on the Coraline website, and I was blown away. It turns out that the clothes that the characters are wearing in the film were actually hand-knit. But that’s not all, considering the scale of the clothing, they were hand-knit with needles! NEEDLES! You know the things you use to hold the thread? The costume-director used needles to actually knit! I shat bricks!
On my visit, I had the pleasure in watching it in 3D. Though I usually think 3D is pretty gimmicky, this was a pleasant surprise. It wasn’t over the top, and they used the whole “poke something straight into your face” thing very sparingly. The 3D effects were very subtle, but added just enough depth to make the 3D-ness fun for everyone.
The soundtrack was also very wonderful. It had a whimsical tone, and there were lyrics at times but I think it was in another language, but it wasn’t distracting at all. It tied in nicely to the dream-like ambiance of the entire film. The story was cute, a little creepy at times, but I don’t want to go too much into detail for those of you who haven’t seen it.
Overall I had a great time, and for all of you who are “in-the-know”, I’m crossing my fingers for the Dunks, haha. I highly recommend the film, so if you haven’t gotten the chance, definitely go see it!