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When George Pal stopped producing his stop motion Puppetoon short subjects in 1947, he kept his pioneering replacement animation technique alive in various feature films he made throughout the years (Variety Girl, tom thumb, Wonderful World of Brothers Grimm). He even made one last Puppetoon (The Tool Box Ballet) for Chuck Jones’ Saturday morning series Curiosity Shop (1971).

Stop-motion master Mark Caballero sent me this You Tube embed (below) and wondered if I’d seen it before. No, I haven’t… and it begs the question: Did Pal keep his Puppetoon studio going during the 1950s to do TV commercials? I hadn’t read that anywhere before or seen any others. But then again, how often is the studio and producer given a credit like this on a commercial?

At the time, Pal himself was immersed in producing sci-fi features like Conquest of Space or The Time Machine. It’s interesting that he kept the Puppetoon name (and logo) alive during this period, when the late series was finding renewed interest due to TV syndication.

23 Comments »   posted in Stop Motion, George Pal

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“Lose This Child” by Yuval & Merav Nathan

January 21, 2011 12:05 am

A new stop-motion video from Yuval & Merav Nathan, directors of the fantastic Her Morning Elegance. Lose This Child (for Israeli alternative group, EatLiz) was animated on an actual beach with real sand, by four animators including musician Guy Ben Shetrit, guitarist for the band.

(Thanks, Alfonso Estrada)

6 Comments »   posted in Music Videos, Stop Motion, Yuval & Merav Nathan

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“The Deep” by PES

January 5, 2011 12:30 pm

PES’s latest short, The Deep was created for Showtime’s new “Short Stories” initiative, which should be abundantly clear since Showtime has thoughtlessly plastered their logo over the entire length of the film. If you can move beyond that corporate absurdity, you’ll discover one of PES’s most complex pieces underneath. What really impresses in this piece is how PES is able to discover the organic beauty within rigid, mechanical structures. The sophistication of his timing and movement induce believability of metal tools as organic undersea creatures.

CREDITS
Written, Directed, and Animated by PES
Producer(s): Sarah Phelps, PES
VFX Compositing: Wolfgang Maschin, Demiurge

9 Comments »   posted in Shorts, Stop Motion, PES

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“Laufzeit” by David Seidewitz and Florian Tscharf

January 4, 2011 5:01 am

Laufzeit (Runtime) is a stop-motion short created by David Seidewitz and Florian Tscharf at Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University in Germany. The film offers a clever depiction of the interdependency between two “hands” of a watch. Although not entirely successful as a film, the message is clear enough, and the filmmakers are ambitious in their use of cutting, staging and sound to get their point across.

4 Comments »   posted in Stop Motion, Student, David Seidewitz, Florian Tscharf, Germany

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“Train of Thought” by Leo Bridle & Ben Thomas

January 3, 2011 12:05 am

I love films made with paper cut-outs. Here’s a really amazing one by students Leo Bridle & Ben Thomas, Train of Thought – their graduation film from The Arts Institute at Bournemouth.

“Although we used digital compositing software, all the animation and models were done by hand, not with CGI. The film took approximately 9 months to complete, from storyboards through to the final edit.”

Also, don’t forget to check out the “making of” video.

(Thanks, Sean Dicken)

9 Comments »   posted in Stop Motion, Ben Thomas, Leo Bridle, Papercraft, UK

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