Chainsaw-Wielding, Wooden Samurai Stop Motion Film is a Must See
Hidari is a new stop-motion film that blends the aesthetic of anime with hand-carved wooden puppets that have been meticulously posed to create fantastical scenes.
Hidari is a new stop-motion film that blends the aesthetic of anime with hand-carved wooden puppets that have been meticulously posed to create fantastical scenes.
A photographer and filmmaker spent a year painstakingly handcrafting a stop-motion music video but then took just four days to make a second animated film for the same band using artificial intelligence (AI).
An incredible stop-motion video showing leaves transitioning from summer to fall has been released by a talented photographer.
Photographer and light painter Darren Pearson has been meticulously crafting his colorful photos of a ghostly skeleton band in various locations over the course of the last several years.
Photographer and artist Darren Pearson has released a stop motion project called "Fiat Lux." It consists of 686 individual photos, all of which were meticulously light-painted and shot across multiple locations.
An experimental film by a skier and animator combines traditional footage of the extreme sport with stop motion to create a unique finished product.
YouTuber, actor, and content creator Josh Yeo created a device that he says is the world's first ceiling-mounted, motion-controlled camera dolly that allows him to create incredible motion timelapses and cinematic video shots in a way that dramatically elevates the quality of his work.
Syrp, most well-known for its innovative timelapse and motion control devices, has launched the Genie Micro, an all-in-one smart remote for mirrorless and DSLR cameras.
Artist Rudy Willingham created a clever stop motion video of NBA superstar LeBron James dunking. Frames of the dunk were printed, carefully cut, and then photographed while being held in front of a real-world location.
You've probably seen elaborate scenes in commercials where the camera will be moving forward while light changes and a hamburger comes flying together, right? Usually, these moves are very complicated, but this company wants to make it simple with a connected and modular smart system.
Photographer Arjun Menon loved watching the highly-acclaimed Batman: The Animated Series growing up, and he recently recreated an iconic shot from the opening sequence using an action figure, household items, and light painting.
Before we jump into this blog post if you haven’t already read how I do drone light paintings horizontally in the sky be sure to check this out here. If you have done that already (or don’t wanna read something else) get ready to have your socks knocked off because we are flipping them into vertical space and animating our light paintings all with stop motion.
Canon has released a bespoke bit of firmware for the full-frame mirrorless EOS R that is targeted directly at stop-motion shooters. The firmware increases LiveView resolution and adds focus peaking over USB, key features for pros who use the popular software Dragonframe.
Barcelona-based photographer, filmmaker, and skiier Philipp Klein Herrero was going to go on a ski trip with his family before lockdown hit and they all got stuck inside. But Herrero decided to go skiing anyway... on his living room floor, that is.
The latest episode of Adobe's YouTube series "3 2 1 Photoshop" is for anybody who wants to get into stop motion photography, but has no idea how to actually create a simple animation from a series of still photos.
DPReview just published this humorous 3-minute stop-motion video about how the full-frame mirrorless camera party was finally crashed by new brands in 2018.
This is the music video for the song "UnAmerican" by the indie rock band Said The Whale. The stop-motion video was created by hand without digital effects: it features 2,250 separate photo prints rephotographed over a period of 80 hours.
Light-painting artist Darren Pearson created this short animation titled "Light Duel." The 14-second film was created using 300 long-exposure photos with light drawings that were tirelessly painted into the scenes by hand.
YouTube star Ryan Higa is a self-admitted horrible dancer, so recently he came up with a solution to fix that: to dance without moving through stop-motion photos. The 5-minute video above is the incredible dance video that resulted.
Here's an 8-second video showing $5,000 in Nikon lenses getting smashed with a mallet. If you cringe at the thought of harm coming to any photographic equipment, here's the good news: the video isn't what you think. It's a creative video by stop-motion extraordinaire PES.
Stop motion film is a way to bring to life inanimate objects. It's totally fascinating, but also an incredibly painstaking process to complete. Brett Foxwell is no stranger to this, and is known for great feats in photographic animation.
This incredibly creative ad from Gatorade uses a "liquid printer" and precision-timed strobe photography to create a stop-motion athlete from drops of water. What’s more, it was created entirely in-camera, according to the company.
Pixilation is stop-motion created using real people, and this quirky dance video from animation studio Frame Order is a brilliant example of the technique. Now, the studio has released a behind-the-scenes video, giving us a look at how the creative video was shot.
Camera gear manufacturer Edelkrone just dropped their newest creation, and it's impressive. Called the SliderPLUS X & Motion Kit, the slider and motion head combo is being touted as the "world’s smartest and most portable 4-Axis motion control system."
For their latest music video, the band Explosions in the Sky enlisted the help of filmmaker Hayley Morris to do something special. The resulting video is 3 minutes of psychedelic stop motion photography that is truly impressive.
Stop-motion photography has come a long way since the early 1900s, but it still involves creating an animation one frame at a time by introducing slight changes and movements between still photos. To see how far we've come with the technique, check out this 3-minute video, titled "The Evolution of Stop-Motion."
Canadian filmmaker Scott Portingale has released a new short mixed media film titled "Infinitude." Created by hand using an assortment of camera techniques, the film tells the story of the evolution of matter and energy over time.
A European starling murmuration is one of the most beautiful natural phenomena on Earth—each bird reacting to its 7 closest neighbors, the whole flock an ever-shifting mix of patterns and shapes. So how in the world could you recreate something that intricate with stop motion photography?
“Game Over” is a 1.5-minute stop-motion by PES that recreates classic arcade games …
Nikon recently gave filmmakers Wriggles & Robins the new Nikon D810 and asked the duo to showcase the low-light capabilities of the DSLR. They decided to shoot a stop motion animation in the dark outdoors.
"HoloPainting" is a newly invented technique that combines light painting, stop motion, and hyperlapse to create animated, 3D holograms consisting of pure light.
"Run Baby Run" is a new video by artist Eran Amir that shows a baby running through all kinds of locations. It was entirely captured in camera with no green screen or digital manipulations.
When Washington, D.C.-based time-lapse photographer Andrew Geraci proposed to his girlfriend, Alicia Pituch, (who's also a photographer) recently, he decided to get creative with documenting the memory. He captured the memory in 360 degrees in two different ways: one with the help of 10 of his photographer friends, and one with a 360-degree camera.
Here's a 1-minute stop-motion commercial Karen X. Cheng recently produced and directed for Totspot, a resale shopping app for kids clothes. Cheng also documented the production process in order to show "how painstakingly laborious" stop motion photography is.
"Un Petit Tour Dans Paris" is a new 1.5-minute short film by French director Maxime Baudin.
"In a splendid and romantic Paris, while everything is going too fast, a young man ride a ‘bicyle’," the synopsis reads. "But his simple ride is going to take on a whole new dimension…"
"How do you give a second life to an old film camera?," asks the French ad agency Maison Carnot. They had an old and non-functional Fujica ST 705 camera on their hands, so they decided to create a stop-motion video and a piece of art with it. It took the team a day to disassemble the camera into its basic pieces, select some choice components, and then arrange them neatly in a frame for display. The 2-minute video above is titled "DISASSEMBLY."
People are having fun remixing those 8,400 Apollo moon mission photos that were uploaded to Flickr last week. A couple of days ago, we shared a video that brought the photos to life with faux slow-motion that was added with Photoshop and After Effects.
The video above is another interesting remix. It's the photo set turned into a 3-minute stop-motion video that shows the astronauts journey to the moon and back.
PermaGrin Films just released this new short film titled "Imagination." It's a mind-bending stop-motion journey that follows a child through his imagination over 4 minutes.
New York-based stop-motion artist Adam Pesapane, who goes by PES, has earned a great deal of attention over the past few years for his remarkable animations that are made with creativity, hard work, and still photographs from DSLRs. His viral shorts include "Fresh Guacamole," "Western Spagetti,", and "Submarine Sandwich" (his projects often involve ordinary things getting turned into food).
Honda recently enlisted Pesapane's services to create the ad above, titled "Paper." It runs just 2 minutes, but it took 4 months of work to create!
YouTube star Ryan Higa recently decided to parody the popularity of “hover boards” that have been flooding the consumer market. In the creative "infomercial" and stop-motion video above, he throws aside an expensive ‘FloBoard’ to find more fun with the cardboard box itself.
Watch the result of Higa and his team taking four days to craft an epic stop motion that transforms a simple piece of cardboard into a true hover board, a jetpack, and even a fighting robot. The stop motion fun begins at 2:20.