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Visual artist and computational biologist Mike Cantor gives us the low down on "Freckle"  - an amazing little stop motion animation he created.

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18 months. 19,000 velcro dots. Two velcro dot-suits. 20 volunteer velcro pushers from Scary Cow. A girl. A guy. Space. Skin. Freckle!

“Freckle” is a music video that I created for a piece of music by Brandon Patton, bass player for MC Frontalot. The video employs an original stop-animation technique which I call “Velcro rotoscoping”: thousands of colorful velcro dots are arrayed like pixels onto a grid, photographed, and then superimposed one frame at a time onto live-action video.  The dots bring to life a love song about two objects in space, orbiting and colliding, and the scales that measure their attraction.

For more information about the making of Freckle, including video of the "velcro rotoscoping" process, check out MikeCantor.net 

I have always been fascinated with stop motion animation as a creative medium and when I spotted this gorgeous and mesmerising stop motion by Steven Briand I had to share.  Made over a period of two months this minimalist stop motion is by no means simple - the way he manages to move and manipulate the various paper geometric shapes had me wondering how he even begun to conceive  this master piece of animation. 

 Not only is the animation flawless but the sound design is stunning too - both work so well together and as a viewer you really focus your attention on the smallest geometric shift and paper crumples.  Apparently Steven completed this while doing an internship at a UK animation company called Partizan - wish I had the time to do something like this! 

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