Sweet Stop Motion by Elise Fachon

Stop motion is so fascinating to me. It is a tedious process but the results are so worth it.
I ran across this piece by Elise Fachon on www.thisiscolossal.com yesterday. Check it out...


PIN from Elise Fachon on Vimeo.

I constantly find myself personifying inanimate objects...spoons, cups, irons, buttons...so this seems very close to home. It makes me want to run to my studio with a camera and start moving things around!

New Zealand Book Council's "Going West" and 4th Estate's "This is Where We Live"

I first saw this animation via Inkthread, one of the blogs I frequent regularly. Careful manipulation of light and shadow really make this film sing.

Here is another I first saw via Inkthread:


This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

If you check out 4th Estate on Vimeo, you can see several behind the scene videos that reveal the painstaking processes involved.

Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance

I can't stop thinking about stop motion lately...



See below for a idea of the process used to make this animation.