[Stop-motion] Animation

[teslashock]

I <3 stop-motion to death. I just wanted to make a thread where I/we share some of our favorite animation works.

I'll start with William Kentridge because he's a beast. His works are stop-motion videos made from a conglomeration of charcoal drawings to which he adds/erases frame-by-frame. His stuff has a glowy, incandescent feel to it from the way the charcoal casts a permanent shadow on the paper:

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXxCknnNPOI"]Johannasberg [/YOUTUBE]1st in a series. 1989. 25 drawings.

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSjqwzPjbe0"]Monument [/YOUTUBE] 2nd in series. 1990. 11 drawings.

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7WtFZKwdtc"]Mine[/YOUTUBE]3rd in series. 1991. 18 drawings.

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZIvwKtMzZ0"]Sobriety, Obesity, and Growing Old[/YOUTUBE]4th in series. 1991. 25 Drawings.

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk5tPkqQoL0"]Felix in Exile[/YOUTUBE]5th in series. 1994. 40 drawings.

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1sPLXMg1BQ"]History of the Main Complaint[/YOUTUBE] 6th in series. 1996. 25 drawings.

 

[teslashock]

Blu Blu

This guy is really awesome too. He collaborates with other artists to do shit like this all over the world.

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4"]Buenos Aires [/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaOn1e6sLEc"]Berlin[/YOUTUBE]

 

[teslashock]

A professor of mine

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am0Dcvpi6yk"]Eyeballs and Chicken Snakes[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Sniffles]

[youtube="sICgWJ46_4E"]Russian stop-motion animation[/youtube]

Gotta love the little guy.

 

[teslashock]

Aw I love the way he says OrrrranGES!

That was cute.

 

[EJCC]

YouTube - Cracking Contraptions - The Bully Proof Vest

Gotta have some Wallace and Gromit.

 

[Vasilisa]

so much good stop motion animation

There is so much good old Soviet and Eastern European stop motion animation its ridiculous.
[YOUTUBE="tcORuOjuQfA"]The Cat Who Walked by Herself 1/2[/YOUTUBE]Watch the entire film here.

Czech animators were also amazing. Of course Jan Svankmajer's Alice has always been a favorite:
[YOUTUBE="J2-TPdB70Lg"]Alice[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="JE_zjmVO90w"]Inspirace by Karel Zeman[/YOUTUBE]

Gotta love the little guy.

no doubt.

 

[Venom]

does Robot chicken count? I could potentially mark it as my favorite show

unfortunately, youtube has taken down most of the best clips