Stopmotion Explosion Blog

Stop motion animation is a highly versatile art form. Paper is a highly versatile medium. In this papermation spot by the animators of Dadomani, artistic precision conspires with mechanical architecture to produce a fantastical cityscape for the imagination. Moleskine - Game of Thrones Dadomani is a creative design and animation studio founded by four guys in 2007. The reel on their website showcases the imagination and painstaking detail they pour into each project—this time, to visualize the virtual worlds of possibility that await within a Moleskine notebook. You can compare it with the original Game of Thrones intro animation here (see the part between 00:15-24) The...

We recently featured Hoedown from Rodeo, a stop motion short that used complex paper creations popping up from between the pages of an old book to tell a "silent western" drama. You can use the same basic idea to animate a pop-up illustrated version of a storybook, like misteryCARD did here for Alice in Wonderland. Alice in Wonderland Making the paper cutouts from the pages of a book helps present the illusion of characters coming to life out of the story (Inkheart, anyone?). But you don't need to cannibalize your favorite novel! You can mimic the look by printing on regular paper in a standard...

Eleanor Stewart is a freelance animator and paper artist based out of Scotland. She created this noteworthy stop motion short for her final year at the Glasgow School of Art several years ago, where she was awarded the Bram Stoker Medal for most imaginative work. Her animations have since screened internationally—sometimes accompanied by live orchestras! Her nostalgic animation below features the Hoe-Down movement from the Rodeo ballet scored by celebrated American composer Aaron Copland. Aged sheet music lends a timeless quality to the page-turning scenes, in which cutouts and three-dimensional models leap off the page. The result is a brilliant homage to romanticized cowboy/western culture. Hoedown from Rodeo To exaggerate foreground elements or to communicate...

NOTE: As of 04/20/2016, the ducklings have hatched and waddled away. Thanks for watching! Today we're taking a break from our typical stop motion fare to feature something different, but equally cool! A reader of the blog has sent us a link and some pictures of the "Quack Cam". This year a mallard duck has nested inside the 100 year old apple tree in his yard. He's hidden one of our 1080P USB Cameras inside the tree, and attached it to his computer with a few USB extension cables.  You can visit the UStream.TV site and see live video of the duck sitting on eggs, turning them over...

If you enjoyed The LEGO Movie as much as we did, you probably loved the appearance of Batman, who almost stole the show from Emmet during their quest to defeat Lord Business. There have been hints about Batman having his own spinoff film since last year. Today the first teaser trailer was released! Fact #1: The Trailer is Awesome Some of the plot revelations so far hint at Batman secretly being a lonely heart despite his superhero / billionaire persona, and the teaser seems to confirm it. A secret life of fighting crime while living in an echo-y batcave with hundreds...