Stop Motion Works
Stop-motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Clay figures are often used in stop-motion for their ease of repositioning.
In cinema, technique has been used frequently and films like Star Wars wouldn’t look the same without it. When CGI, computer generated graphics became affordable enough for anyone to use future looked dark for stop motion but with films like Wallace and Gromit having huge success the craftmanship survived. Now stop motion has had a great revival with a number of new talents using the old magic of stop motion to blow life in seemingly dead objects.
Here is our tribute to the magic.
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Ninja Tune SF based ambassador Brendan Angelides aka Eskmo with a video directed by Travis Yohnke and Seton Kim about a girl seeing sounds and hearing images. Track taken from his self-titled album from 2010.
Eskmo - Color Dropping
Ninja Tune SF based ambassador Brendan Angelides aka Eskmo with a video directed by Travis Yohnke and Seton Kim about a girl seeing sounds and hearing images. Track taken from his self-titled album from 2010.
Stop-motion music video for ‘Burnt Trees’ by Brighton based band Heavy Dials. This is the first music video from Bob de Broise and Elizabeth Holly Hurt at Leeds based Enjoy Film, about a girl, exploring and breathing new life into a desolate landscape.
Heavy Dials - Burnt Trees
Stop-motion music video for ‘Burnt Trees’ by Brighton based band Heavy Dials. This is the first music video from Bob de Broise and Elizabeth Holly Hurt at Leeds based Enjoy Film, about a girl, exploring and breathing new life into a desolate landscape.
Wonderful stop motion by Brandon Reichard and Pelham Johnston. Each frame printed from real video, then hand drawn, colored, or decorated and put back together. Nearly 3,000 individual frames, completed by around 40 artists from Columbus, Ohio and elsewhere. Times New Viking is the a lo-fi pop trio from the same town and releases through Merge/Wichita.
Times New Viking - No Room To Live
Wonderful stop motion by Brandon Reichard and Pelham Johnston. Each frame printed from real video, then hand drawn, colored, or decorated and put back together. Nearly 3,000 individual frames, completed by around 40 artists from Columbus, Ohio and elsewhere. Times New Viking is the a lo-fi pop trio from the same town and releases through Merge/Wichita.
Paul Stevenson at Visual Hybrid translates the oddball electronica of Bristol outfit Zoon Van Snook’s Cuckoo with this stop-frame animated promo shot over eight hours – with a little help from his trusty Nikon DSLR. Track taken from the “(Falling From) The Nutty Tree” album out on Mush Records.
Zoon Van Snook - Cuckoo
Paul Stevenson at Visual Hybrid translates the oddball electronica of Bristol outfit Zoon Van Snook’s Cuckoo with this stop-frame animated promo shot over eight hours – with a little help from his trusty Nikon DSLR. Track taken from the “(Falling From) The Nutty Tree” album out on Mush Records.
Track taken from Shit Robot’s critically acclaimed debut album ‘From The Cradle To The Rave’ out on New York’s DFA Records. Video made by Maser and Albert Hooi.
Shit Robot - Tuff Enuff?
Track taken from Shit Robot’s critically acclaimed debut album ‘From The Cradle To The Rave’ out on New York’s DFA Records. Video made by Maser and Albert Hooi.
A warped and mutated blend of the futuristic and the organic embodies Black Mold – the electronic alter-ego of songwriter Chad VanGaalen. This psychedelic stop motion video (with some resemblance to Kristofer Ström’s Hitchhiker’s Choice) was animated by VanGaalen and released in 2009 on Flemish Eye.
Black Mold - Metal Spiderwebs
A warped and mutated blend of the futuristic and the organic embodies Black Mold – the electronic alter-ego of songwriter Chad VanGaalen. This psychedelic stop motion video (with some resemblance to Kristofer Ström’s Hitchhiker’s Choice) was animated by VanGaalen and released in 2009 on Flemish Eye.
Innovative in it’s complex simplicity - this is a puppet video manifesting a special kind of sequencer playing the tunes like a player piano. The video was created by Lung at Perish Factory in London. The track is taken from Bomb The Bass’s album Future Chaos released in 2008 on !K7.
Bomb The Bass - Butterfingers
Innovative in it’s complex simplicity - this is a puppet video manifesting a special kind of sequencer playing the tunes like a player piano. The video was created by Lung at Perish Factory in London. The track is taken from Bomb The Bass’s album Future Chaos released in 2008 on !K7.
Stop motion animation video from the duo who also performs and produces as Son Kite. Directed by Kristofer Ström at ljudbilden and released in 2006 on Crosstown Rebels.
Minilogue - Hitchhiker’s Choice
Stop motion animation video from the duo who also performs and produces as Son Kite. Directed by Kristofer Ström at ljudbilden and released in 2006 on Crosstown Rebels.
Music video by Tobias Stretch. Illuminant can be found on Efterklangs second album entitled Parades releases in October 2007 on The Leaf Label. With a stop-motion technique Stretch visualizes a semi-imaginary world with strange creatures in beautiful countryside settings which works great with the soundscapes of this Danish electronica outfit.
Efterklang - Illuminant
Music video by Tobias Stretch. Illuminant can be found on Efterklangs second album entitled Parades releases in October 2007 on The Leaf Label. With a stop-motion technique Stretch visualizes a semi-imaginary world with strange creatures in beautiful countryside settings which works great with the soundscapes of this Danish electronica outfit.
This stop motion extravaganza was created by talented artist Sif Westerberg and Lucy Love at the Funen Art Academy in Denmark. It is made from a bunch of plasticine modelling-clay, cardboard, over 5500 frames and a lot of hard work and determination. Released in 2008 on Pilot Music.
Lucy Love - No V.I.P.
This stop motion extravaganza was created by talented artist Sif Westerberg and Lucy Love at the Funen Art Academy in Denmark. It is made from a bunch of plasticine modelling-clay, cardboard, over 5500 frames and a lot of hard work and determination. Released in 2008 on Pilot Music.
Directed by acclaimed director Geoffroy De Crecy (brother of Etiennne) and is basically just a cardboard DIY stop motion video. Taken from the “The Rex The Dog Show” album out on Hundehaus Records.
Rex The Dog - Bubblicious
Directed by acclaimed director Geoffroy De Crecy (brother of Etiennne) and is basically just a cardboard DIY stop motion video. Taken from the “The Rex The Dog Show” album out on Hundehaus Records.
This is the video for the first single of Anderas Tilliander’s new album Shot out on Adrian Recordings, in May 2009. The video was shot during one day with a Nikon D90 with direction by Olof Werngren.
Andreas Tilliander - Caught In A Riot
This is the video for the first single of Anderas Tilliander’s new album Shot out on Adrian Recordings, in May 2009. The video was shot during one day with a Nikon D90 with direction by Olof Werngren.
Stop motion animation video from director Kristofer Ström at Ljudbilden, yes, same guy whos’s behind the acclaimed Minilogue animations. Released on Hybrid & Adrian Recordings.
Familjen - Hög Luft
Stop motion animation video from director Kristofer Ström at Ljudbilden, yes, same guy whos’s behind the acclaimed Minilogue animations. Released on Hybrid & Adrian Recordings.
Mr. Kama & P.toile in co-op with another cute little minimal techno stop motion video and a quite complex storyboard. According to Kama it’s about “communication problems, love not corresponding, ancient ways to communicate and about time passing too fast”. Track released in 2008 on Mothership Music.
P.toile - Piano Piano
Mr. Kama & P.toile in co-op with another cute little minimal techno stop motion video and a quite complex storyboard. According to Kama it’s about “communication problems, love not corresponding, ancient ways to communicate and about time passing too fast”. Track released in 2008 on Mothership Music.
Lusine is the highly talented IDM producer Jeff McIlwain from the esteemed Ghostly International imprint. Britta Johnson brings Lusine’s gorgeous new single “Two Dots” to life, illustrating the song’s relationships-as-trigonometry analogy in an intricately animated video. In the clip, a pair of marbles - one blue, one yellow - engage in the timeless dance of seduction on a horizontal plain. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.