A special effects wizard who inspired George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Tim Burton, and Peter Jackson, passed away Tuesday at the age of 92. His stop-motion creature creations were the stuff of dreams and nightmares for an entire generation of moviegoers.
The first two episodes of the Doctor Puppet’s epic stop-motion adventure are here. Can you guess who he meets along the way?
This took two-and-a-half years for Jonason Pauley and Jesse Perrottato to complete. It is impressive.
This pug can really rip! Stop motion doggy skateboarding at its finest.
The fantastically geeky intro from 1992’s animated X-Men painstakingly reconstructed in stop motion. Good.
The amount of coordination this required is absurd. The students teachers and students at the HESAV school bring 11 floors to life by opening and closing shutters and windows.
These things just get more and more ambitious. Back in my day people thought you were hot stuff if you just remembered to take a picture of yourself every day for a couple of years.
This film should have been impossible to make in stop motion. But “impossible” wasn’t going to stop them from doing it anyway.
The greatest story the screen will ever know! Disney brings out the 50s camp for the Frankenweenie comic-con trailer.
Abe&Tell’s music video created by Orrin Hastings was shot with over 500 girls holding an iPad displaying one frame clip of the film. It’s pretty awesome.
Using items you’d find laying around your bed — crumpled sheets, rubber mats, waterproof tarp, bikini-clad Playmobil figures — Karim Rejeb put together this super-charming stop-motion animated short about a surfing trip.
Check out this cool stop-motion PSA about anonymity on the Internet. Lesson learned: don’t go on dating sites and say you are a mouse.
12,000 sheets of construction paper, to be precise. This is a video for Josh Ritter’s “Love Is Making Its Way Back Home.” (via etsy.com)
It’s a trap! It’s always a woman, isn’t it?
Clip feels ripe for a dubstep remix.
The guy who brought you “thinking outside the box”” brings scraps of paper come to life in this beautiful short film called ‘Friction’.
Who will win? This fight is a farce. Ezio would never even see a real ninja.
So Hulk-ism works like vampirism? Suddenly a whole world of Hulks make more sense.
This is what all carrots were intended for. Watch Video ›
It’s like a drinking game for sugar addicts. How many can you eat before you throw up? Annnnnd, go.
500 people in Israel holding 1,500 separate photographs make this lovely stop-motion music video. Don’t get dizzy! (via Ze) Watch Video ›
Good stop motion animation is so impressive. It’s even more impressive when a filmmaker is able to turn inanimate objects into characters who we feel real empathy for. This short film is beautiful and sad and about hardware. (via gizmodo.com) Watch Video ›
Run For Your Lives is an apocalyptic 5K obstacle race. But you’re not just running against the clock — you’re running from brain-hungry, virus-spreading, bloody zombies. (Run For Your Lives!) Watch Video ›
Hadouken! This stop motion battle between Ryu and Ken is quite possibly the coolest thing you will ever see. Watch Video ›
You’ve only got one chance to remove a beard this epic. Do it in style. (via reddit) Watch Video ›
Created by the Swedish group Rymdreglage, it’s a hand-drawn stop motion of the Terminator 2 movie, and you’ll get to see selected scenes drawn right before your eyes. Watch Video ›
Vimeo user Mindrelic took this stunning footage of Manhattan between March 12 and April 29, 2011. These views are all taken from or around hotels he stayed at, which makes me wonder about the budget for this project. But trust me when I say the final product is so worth it. Watch Video ›
Here’s the stop motion of gummy bears reenacting video games that you’ve been waiting for. (Via The Uniblog) Watch Video ›
Johnny Miller and Philip Leaman have created a cute and whimsical stop motion animation featuring little origami squares. It will be featured in the May 2011 iPad issue for Martha Stewart Living. View Media ›
Lots of sex, death, and AT-ATs. Watch Video ›
