“Ever wonder who would win in a fight between Iron Man and Batman? Well you get to choose in this interactive clash of the billionaires!
There took over 1,000 individual pictures and 3 months of work to complete this project. I will be posting a making of video shortly. Coming soon these figures and this animation will be on display at the Toy and Action Figure Museum.”
New next level genius-ness from BLU as his follow up to COMBO (with David Ellis) and 2008’s masterpiece MUTO goes BIG BANG BIG BOOM on the streets of Awesometown. Once again an incredible display of creative ingenuity from arguably the best graf artist hitting the walls, sidewalks and whatever surface he can reach.
From BLU:
“BIG BANG BIG BOOM:
an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life … and how it could probably end.
direction and animation by BLU blublu.org
production and distribution by ARTSH.it artsh.it
sountrack by ANDREA MARTIGNONI
many thanks to (in random order):
xm24 bologna, csoa mezzacanaja, ericailcane, robert rebotti, andrea bagni, paper resistance, studiocromie, rifrazioni festival, sasso passo, sibe, festival de cine experimental de maldonado (uruguay), gianluigi toccafondo, orilo, maria de brea, bs as stencil, run don’t walk, franco fasoli, modo infoshop, pietro and icone festival, doma, cesare romani, popup festival and all the blu’s family”
The age old question of what a sex and drug addicted piece of Play-Doh does once they’ve run out of sex and drugs to abuse finally get’s answered* in the brilliant stop motion short BLUE: An Erotic Life from talented Parsons graduate student Tibo Charroppin. Check out stills, video and more on Tibo’s thesis production blog here.
Video is extremely NSFW if your boss or co-workers are made of childrens’ clay, otherwise it’s fine.
From Tibo:
“BLUE: An Erotic Life is a stop motion animation that narrates the life story of a blob of clay dealing with sexual addiction. The piece plays on the contrast between graphic adult content and grotesque stop motion. The combination of the two makes for an absurd, dark humored short film.
BLUE: An Erotic Life is my BFA Student Thesis from Parsons School of Design.”
*Spoiler alert: Apparently once they’ve screwed everyone, including themselves, sex and drug addict Play-Doh’s go on to screw millions upon millions of more people as “the official biggest fucker in the nation”.
Another mini masterpiece from the mind of French-Canadian stop motion superstar Patrick Boivin.
From monsieur Boivin:
“When I was a kid, there are two things I wanted badly and never got… A real dog and a Kenner AT-AT Walker.
Music by Blithe Field http://www.myspace.com/swallowoceans“
The color red loving San Francisco based artist Alex Varanese turned his desk into an 8-bit stop motion video game in the aptly titled short My Desk is 8-Bit and now I wish mine was too.
From Mr. Varanese:
“I recently found myself wondering what a video game might look like in the form of a stop motion animation. While a normal person’s response to such a question would of course be “who gives a shit?” I possess few of the qualities typically associated with normalcy and was irrevocably compelled to find out. This is the result.
Also, I’d like to think I’m the first person to be inspired by Michel Gondry AND R-Type on the same project.”
Fresh off of yesterday’s ultra informative (and mildly tingly) CPR post, I thought it would be appropriate to share another clever educational commercial. SMART Technologies shows off their touch screen interactive whiteboards in their stop motion-centric spot“The Magic Classroom” and asks you to vote for the “best teacher in the world” on their website. And with all due apologies to your 5th grade teacher, Bugs Bunny and the cast of Yo Gabba Gabba, but the best teachers in the world are obviously those professional lingerie ladies CPR instructors.
But leave it to a guy with every too many Legos and too much time on his hands to create a stop motion masterpiece retelling the original Star Wars trilogy in two minutes. From Youtuber dzine123.
Star Wars, Legoand stop motion? Impressive, most impressive. But even more impressive was that the video, created by YouTuber Fancy Pants Productions, was simply an entry to an animation contest on Bricksinmotion.com. Winner, winner chicken dinner!
When office supplies take the time to offer me sound advice I listen. Stop motion with a message from San Francisco based designer Mike Afsa. See the older hints here.Via Max and his Viewers Like You.
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