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Graceful Death Star LEGO stop motions

December 28, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Stop motions are very demanding on your time. Each tiny movement means a change, a photograph and an ever expanding animation. Imagine how long it would take to put together a stop motion animation of a LEGO Death Star coming together.…

Short film: Goutte d’Or

March 28, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Slightly NSFW dur to naked puppets. This is an incredibly well animated stop-motion by Christophe Peladan. It’s a strange love story that features a hanging pirate on a flying boat, a naked witch and a guardian octopus.…

Adding monsters to your life with Aug(de)mented Reality

November 4, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If you’ve seen the original you’ll now how cool these are. These are created by Marty Cooper and are made using traditional animation cels and an iPhone 5. We’re talking about hand drawings and stop motion.…

Stop motion Tetris in chalk

December 31, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is pretty impressive. As you watch the video try and work out how the 3D effect and stop motion is achieved. For a start you can see they do a very good job at getting the straight lines straight and, of course, at scrubbing away the old chalk lines so the board doesn’t become dusty.…

Gingerbread men cause chaos this slow motion Christmas

December 25, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What about a quirky mix of stop motion and slow motion this Christmas? Bring on the Gingerbread men who are up to no good. Some of these scenes were shot at 45000 frames per second which give you a fantastic way to view the carnage.…

Chronicles of Doom: Episode 3

May 30, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

< Previous videoChronicles of DoomNext video > Doctor Doom extends his snooping towards Iron Man. Does Tony Stark know anything that will aid the mad mystic in his quest for power? The Chronicles of Doom are a motion comic series written by Brian Michael Bendis to foreshadow Marvel Heroes.…

Blogfest: In honour of Ray Harryhausen

May 10, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sadly, this week the special effects titan Ray Harryhausen died. At the suggestion of R.J. Thompson over at Gamers and Grognards, to honour the legend, Geek Native will be taking part in a “blogfest” dedicated to the man.…

Maker vs Marker: an animator takes on his animation

May 7, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This stop motion animation from Jonny Lawrence makes me wonder how hard artists find it to kill off their creations once they’re no longer needed. Mind you. There’s nothing to say characters created by artists have any intention of being killed off quickly or easily.…

Short film: Malaria

February 27, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Malaria from Edson Oda on Vimeo. You’re an assassin hired to kill Death. What could go wrong? Here’s another challenge. You want to film a comic book but you don’t want to do an animation.…

Gundam & Figma stop motion battle

May 7, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

File this video under “if you have the models – you might as well do something with them” in the stop motion sub-section. Counter 656 says this video took around 3,000 pictures to film.…

Graceful Death Star LEGO stop motions

Short film: Goutte d’Or

Adding monsters to your life with Aug(de)mented Reality

Stop motion Tetris in chalk

Gingerbread men cause chaos this slow motion Christmas

Chronicles of Doom: Episode 3

Blogfest: In honour of Ray Harryhausen

Maker vs Marker: an animator takes on his animation

Short film: Malaria

Gundam & Figma stop motion battle

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