Stop Motion

After listening to the track I began to look at videos to get ideas for my own animation. I mentioned in an earlier post that i've always been interested in stop motion. Here are a few of my favourites:

Her Morning Elegance video
Directed by: Oren Lavie, Yuval & Merav Nathan
Featuring: Shir Shomron
Photography: Eyal Landesman

I really like how they've done this video. The music fits in really well and they present it visually; a violin appears at 30 seconds when the violing playins in the music, the pillows turn grey and a scarf is put on as the song talks about it being cloudy and the way they move her hair in each frame to emphasize the wind as she's on the train etc.  Everything links together and in the end you have a really clever stop motion video.

Directed and Edited by Joe Penna

This video is called T-Shirt War and was origionally done for a Mcdonalds and Coca Cola advert. I think it's really clever the way the did this video using over 220 tshirts. This is kindof the thing we have to do for the project. They not only use their own images on the tshirts but they digitally animate them and sometimes pull the images out of the tshirts to show actual objects.  Watch the original advert here.

'This is the PEN Story in stop motion. We shot 60.000 pictures, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post production! Thanks to all the stop motion artists who inspired us. We hope you enjoy :-)'

This video must have taken SO long to to. The track they used is a really nice fitting song for someone on a journey. The video sees the young boy grow into an old man through photographs taken at each stage in his life. I think it's an amazing video but would be hard to do for a 30 second animation. I think it works really well mainly because of the sheer amount of prints in the video.

This last one is an advert for Lego. I this the way they've done this one is really clever by showing how many different things can be made form only a few different blocks. It's comical and I would definitely go out and buy more lego after watching it :)