Singer Kina Grannis, who got her start on YouTube, is rocking the world of stop motion animation with a new video that went up on her channel earlier this week. The video, which was created over 22 months, took 1,357 hours, 30 people, 2 ladders, 1 still camera and 288,000 jelly beans.
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What was your favorite toy from the 1980s? Was it transformers? Lego? Toy cars? Nintendo? Marbles? Hot Wheels? All of these and more make an appearance in ‘The King Of Lego Land’, the latest stop motion masterpiece from French web designer and animator Micaël Reynaud.
With stop motion practically taking over the Internet, a lot of creative people are being inspired to try this technique out for themselves. But where do you start? We had the opportunity to talk to YouTube partner, filmmaker and stop motion expert Kyle Roberts for some insight, tips and examples.
To celebrate the grand opening of a new Melissa shoe store in São Paulo, Brazil, twenty-five animators created the largest Post-it stop motion animation the world has ever seen.
After 8 months of hard work and over 5,000 photos, YouTuber Kyle Roberts has just released ‘Battle Of The Bonds’, an epic YouTube stop motion starring a whole slew of action figures, and the voices of some of YouTube’s biggest celebs.
iPads are cool and stop motion is even cooler, so what happens when you put the two together? You get an amazing new viral video of an iPad, claymation-style!
Check out our pick of ten of the best LEGO stop motion animations on YouTube and see how the world’s favorite colorful building blocks are brought to life.
About ten months ago, Olympus presented The PEN Story, a stop motion animation made entirely using Olympus’ PEN camera. The PEN Story production team shot over 70,000 pictures to make the stop motion film, which chronicles a life through photographs, and the video received more than 2.4 million views on YouTube. Olympus has outdone themselves with a new addition to the PEN Story collection – PEN Giant, a stop motion made using 355 photos printed in billboard size that take stop motion to the streets.
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Stop motion has become one of the most popular forms of animation in the commercial world. It is showing up more and more in television commercials, such as the ad campaigns for the Amazon Kindle and Target, and in music videos like Coldplay’s Strawberry Swing. Over the past couple of years stop motion has become more and more popular on the web as well, with stop motion videos racking up thousands and even millions of views on sites like YouTube and Vimeo.
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