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Flight Patterns by Charlie McCarthy
by amid
July 31, 2009 10:28 am


Nature is an experimental animator. This is a video of long-exposure photos of bugs moving under a street light. While the process is not animation, the results evoke scratch-on-film techniques, not to mention the more obvious comparison to PikaPika.

(via Kottke)

07/31/09  10:39am

These are a series of images that are manipulated to create the illusion of movement. That’s animation enough for me.

07/31/09  11:55am

Brilliant! Proof positive that animation is everywhere, in a multi-dimensional, other-worldly sense.

07/31/09  12:03pm
Mike Fontanelli says:

I’ve always enjoyed his experimental work with Edgar Bergen and Mortimer Snerd.

07/31/09  1:31pm
Mike Milo says:

So those are real bug trails or animated photo bg with drawings for the bug’s trails? If it’s real it’s pretty cool to see bug’s flying in that corkscrew shape!

07/31/09  9:57pm
christy says:

thats really cool!!!!!!!!

08/1/09  1:37am
Joe says:

Charlie McCarthy’s work on vimeo is definitely worth looking at. What he can do with a consumer cam is awesome. I’d also recommend the work of vimeo user Remyyy.

08/3/09  6:02am
guest says:

wow. that was boring.
what´s so special about a long exposure/ time lapse.
-> no story-> no real animation-> fun “test” that gets far more attention than it deserves.

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