Adrien Merigeau (co-director of Old Fangs) created this engimatic music video for the Irish band The Villagers and their song “Cecelia and Her Selfhood.” He made the film at his Dublin-based studio andmapsandplans. Merigeau is also the art director of
Cartoon Saloon’s next feature Song of the Sea. (The studio previously made The Secret of Kells.) The video was animated entirely by Merigeau except for the stop motion sequence with the jackal and dragon that was animated by Eimhin McNamara.

The lyrics are a bit confusing if you take them at face value and appear to suggest murdering petty vandals, but that’s not the case according to the Villagers frontman Conor O’Brien: “I called it ‘Cecilia and Her Selfhood’ because I wanted to show the sister who ends up destroying the statue, I wanted the sister to represent the inner wicked of Cecilia herself, so it’s almost like someone destroying herself…like an analogy of that.”

(Thanks, Tomm Moore)

14 Comments »   posted in Music Videos, Stop Motion, Adrien Merigeau, Cartoon Saloon, Eimhin McNamara, Ireland

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“The Scarf” by Carla Veldman

September 21, 2011 2:02 am

Today is World Alzheimer’s Day, which gives us the opportunity to share this 2010 stop motion film by Carla Veldman, who made it while attending Sheridan College. The film has played in over a dozen film festivals, including Annecy last June. It explores the topic of Alzheimer’s through the eyes of a young boy who finds it increasingly difficult to communicate with his grandmother, who is dealing with the onset of Alzheimer’s.

8 Comments »   posted in Shorts, Stop Motion, Student, Canada, Carla Veldman, Sheridan College

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PREVIEW: Tchaikovsky Short by Barry Purves

September 7, 2011 2:16 am

World-class stop motion animator Barry Purves is currently working on a short about Tchaikovsky that’ll debut later this year. The film’s cameraman Joe Clarke created this spellbinding time-lapse of Purves at work:

Whilst working on the film I shot this series of time-lapses with the help of students. Instead of just leaving the camera to click away at set intervals, we manually took a frame in synch with the frames Barry was taking as he animated, showing the puppet moving at his intended 25fps, almost!

The stills from the short that Joe has posted on his website are also mouth-watering. I’m eagerly anticipating this one.

15 Comments »   posted in Stop Motion, Barry Purves, Joe Clarke, Tchaikovsky, UK

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“Jonny Quest” Opening Remade by Roger Evans

September 6, 2011 5:45 pm

This thing’s gone viral in the past week. Amid first posted about it back in November, and I have been getting flooded with readers sending me the link to the final product. So, here it is – a superb stop-motion recreation of the opening titles to Hanna Barbera’s Jonny Quest by filmmaker Roger Evans. Bravo, sir! Excellent job!

30 Comments »   posted in Stop Motion, Hanna Barbera, Jonny Quest, Roger Evans

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“Plug, The New World” by Tsuneo Goda

September 3, 2011 4:29 pm

I’m not sure how effectively Plug, the New World promotes Nissan’s electric vehicles, which is the soft sell purpose of the commissioned film, but it’s an undeniably creative and well made effort. The director of the short is Tsuneo Goda, who is best known as the creator of Domo, the poop-inspired mascot of Japanese broadcaster NHK-TV. There are lots of behind-the-scenes photos and making-of details on the website of Goda’s production company Dwarf.

(Thanks, David OReilly)

8 Comments »   posted in Advertising, CGI, Shorts, Stop Motion, Domo, Dwarf, Japan, Nissan, Tsuneo Goda

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Chipotle Taps Johnny Kelly for an Animated Short

August 30, 2011 5:15 pm

Despite getting food poisoning the last time I ate at Chipotle, they remain among my favorite fast food joints (along with my other fave, In-N-Out). One of the reasons I like Chipotle is their emphasis on humanely raised animals. Whether raising meat can ever be as idyllic or beautiful as depicted in this new stop motion short called Back to the Start is open to debate, but it’s an undeniably attractive piece of advertising. It was directed by designed by London-based Johnny Kelly whose hand-made approach to the art form is a perfect match for Chipotle’s message. Like George Pal’s Puppetoons, Kelly knows how to animate stylized geometric forms with organic appeal.

Behind-the-scenes production photos on Johnny Kelly’s Flickr account.

Making of video and credits after the jump:
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15 Comments »   posted in Advertising, Shorts, Stop Motion, Chipotle, Johnny Kelly, Nexus, UK

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Duct Tape Tron

August 24, 2011 12:00 pm

This funny new Duck Brand tape spot recreates the light cycle scene from the original Tron using duct tape, and features internet “Tron Guy” (Jay Maynard). The concept was generated via crowdsourcing through Tongal.

11 Comments »   posted in Advertising, Stop Motion, Duck Tape, Duct Tape, Tron

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“AANAATT” by Max Hattler

August 24, 2011 4:41 am

Max Hattler’s “AANAATT”, a music video for Japanese artist Jemapur, is an abstract stop motion journey that disorients the viewer through novel placement of mirrors and windows. Hattler’s geometric universe functions using an internal logic of its own that isn’t immediately evident to the viewer, and thus creates a visual tension that is both mysterious and hypnotizing. The video dates back to 2008 but is appearing on-line for the first time. It ranks among the more unique examples of stop motion animation I’ve seen recently.

CREDITS
Director/Producer: Max Hattler
Animation: Max Hattler, Noriko Okaku
Assistant Animators: Philip Serfaty, Rodrigo Vives
Music: Jemapur
Commissioned by: W+K Tokyo Lab
Creative Director: +cruz

(via Motionographer)

2 Comments »   posted in Experimental, Music Videos, Stop Motion, Max Hattler, UK

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