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Stop Motion Wednesday - Freezing Light

by Daniel Neville on 2010/03/10

This week I thought I would post something slightly different in the stop motion genera, those films that play around with light. I have noticed that there is an increasing amount of people who are playing with long exposure and the ability this gives you to 'draw' with light. Some of the creations that have been popping up out there are some of the most beautiful and mesmerising bits of film you can watch. Here are my two favorites that I have seen lately:

Light Piano Player by Ryan Cashman

Photographed with a Canon Rebel using 20-30 second exposure time. Ryan used a small green LED keychain light to draw each frame. Once all the positions were photographed he strung them together and synchronized to the music in After Effects.... simple but oh so beautiful.

Credits:

Ryan Cashman

Creator, Director, Animator, Editor

Sean Fau-Burnitz

Director of Photography, Camera Operator

Freezelight Magic Forest by FREEZELIGHT.RU

Created in a similar fashion to Ryans Piano Player this freeze light stop motion takes the craft to a new level. Done by a Russian artist collective called Freeelight these guys are playing with light and long exposure in ways I have not seen. The way they have managed to keep each frame matched so perfectly is out of this world. They have a brilliant site which I suggest you check out too!

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Stop Motion Wednesday - HP Invent

by Daniel Neville on 2010/03/03

Ok so this weeks stopmotion is not a true animation but never the less its awesome. Titled HP Invent the film was created by Tom Wrigglesworth and Matt Robinson, two design students from the Kingston University.

It was created in response to an open brief from D&DA Student Awards which was set by Hewlett Packard - The brief was something along the lines of “Present an idea which promotes HP Workstations ability to bring to life anything the creative mind can conceive.” Six weeks and eight printers later this is what Tom and Matt came up with.

Simply brilliant im sure you will agree. Tom and Matt did pick up an award for it, and they deserve it too, but im not sure who the real winner is here. The film has done very well im sure has passed across many a desk around the world. Nice free advertising for Hewlett Packard, im sure they are not complaining. Now someone offer Tom and Matt a job.

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Stop Motion Wednesday - A Short History of Pretty Much Everything

by Mari Basson on 2010/02/17

It took one 17 year old three weeks, 2 100 pages and 50 jotter books to tell the tale of the creation of the universe and ultimately man's leaving earth to explore the universe. Since being posted on YouTube on the 4th of January the video has received more than 332 online mentions and enjoyed a whopping more than 1 million views - not too shabby for a school art project.

Thanks Jamie Bell for the visualiciousness. It's officially our favourite stop motion!

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Stop Motion Wednesday - Ten Thousand Pictures Of You

by Daniel Neville on 2010/02/10

This weeks stop motion is a video that grabbed me a couple of weeks ago while I was surfing Vimeo looking for inspiration around personal stories told digitally. Infact 'Ten Thousand Pictures Of You' is a roller coaster tale of a girl called Sarah and what her world is like after her heart has been broken by the man she loves. Its creator Robin King calls it not a stop motion film but rather a 'pixilation' which he explains as stop motion with people... an interesting line to draw.

Regardless of what its called this is one master work stopmtion - and before you ask there was no superimposure done in post production. Everything was shot on a Canon EOS 350D digital SLR and in total produced around 26,000 individual images. It took Robin King about a year to complete the film and he even coded his own 3D anamatic planning program to help him work out how to tell his story. All the hard work has paid off and has definitely grabbed more than just my attention. So hats off to you Robin for producing one of the coolest examples of digital story telling out there!