Research into Stop Motion Films

I found this film by just searching stop motion in YouTube, and was really intrigued by it. I looked into it, and found it took 3 months planning, 4 days shooting and over 6000 post-it notes! I found the dedication and effort quite inspiring and I will try to do that with my own work where possible.




I found this film again by searching stop motion in YouTube. I think they've used stop motion to create this music video in such an interesting way, and it has inspired parodies and many other similar videos. It was created using 2096 still photographs. It has become such a hit, they have now broke it down back into still images, and are selling and exhibiting them!



This film is really amusing to watch. I found it the same way as the others, and viewed all of the makers stop motion films to find a lot more like it. It was created with around 912 images, with an oil-based clay called Belgravia.







For this, the actors changed shirts over 100 times each, taking individual pictures of each unique shirt. The designs on the shirts are not photoshopped. They are real shirts for each frame of animation. The video was exported at 30fps, while the T-shirt animation moves at 6fps (with a few exceptions where it moves faster) So, for each shirt, they took 5 pictures, so the animation of them moves at 30fps, but the T-shirt animations move a bit slower. They used 222 T-shirts and it took 2 days to make!



This is an ebay stop motion viral, produced by Matt Keily. It took around 1000 images to make it. This is a very simple yet effective stop motion video, and goes to show you don't need fancy models and equipment to create such a good video.