The Idea Bounty Blog in Stop Motion Wednesdays

Google Maps has inspired more than one art projects in the past and has even been used to fight crime. Now the one of the search giants most loved tools has enabled some lonely toys to take a holiday. This weeks stop motion was created by Tom Jenkins (who is the creative director of a London based production company The Theory) and was made using images take from Google Maps with street view and a handful of toys. The story as explained by Tom: 

" A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can – using a toy car and Google Maps Street View." 

It must be noted that Tom Jenkins produced, animated, filmed and edited this whole short single handedly… and its awesome. Enjoy. 

It’s not often that someone makes me excited about stationery, but this video has done just that. Other than reminding me of a bygone time when having colour pencils in my bag was essential, it made want to go and create my own stop motion film. Good thing there is already a post that teaches you how to create your own stop motion! 

In order to be memorable it’s important to stand out. Nowadays, most music videos have so much CG in them you don’t even know what is real and what isn’t real anymore. Granted CG and special effects does have their place, what really impresses me, however, is when an artist takes the time to create something beautiful and different. Kina Grannis has done just that by using 288,000 jellybeans for her latest music video!