For those of you that don’t already know, I LOVE LOVE LOVE stop motion animation. I love to make stop motion animations, I love to think about stop motion animations and I love to look around on YouTube for hours for cool stop motion animations.
I decided to put together a small collection of some of my favorite stop motion animations so here they are!
This first is a white board animation by “Ljudbilden & Piloten”. You must watch it, it is amazing.
Next is a must see for all Tetris fans… It’s “Human Tetris” directed by the Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond. He also did Human animations for other games including Space Invaders and Pong. You can watch them here.
Next is a really cool stop motion animation created on Post It notes, like a flip book. The video, created by “TheGaurk” (sorry, I don’t have a name) was made by drawing on nearly 770 Post It notes!
Finally, here is a really cool stop motion animation by PES, who I wrote a post about a few weeks ago. It’s probably the tastiest fireplace ever!
I hope you enjoyed watching these. Please let me know if you have seen any great stop motion animations that you think I would like!
Hi there!
I am a big fan of stop-motion as well, and once I kick off my career as an Academy Director(I’m nearly there) after I’ve entered one of my films in Cannes, I plan to make many special effects-oriented motion pictures, and not once will I use CGI. It will all be done using stop-motion.
Also, the guy that I hope to work with some day is a very clever fella named Eric Kessler. His username on Youtube is ‘kingkongkessler’, because he does some extremely advanced and clever King Kong-based stop-motion work.
Like me, he is a MASSIVE ‘King Kong’ 1933 fan, and we have chatted many times and are good friends.
So please check out some of his work on the Tube, and I hope you enjoy!
Thanks Clayton– I’ll be sure to check it out
I wish you the best of luck– please share your animations with me when they are done!
Hi there,
I’m an independent stop motion animator.
Great to see your love of the craft LIVES! I wish there was as much enthusiasm for clay, though. That’s what I specialize in, and there is no work! At least, not in the U.S. It’s hard to get a VISA to the UK. Argh!
Ah well, maybe a wealthy investor will buy my fourth film
Don
Will do Megan, and good luck with you too!
And Don, I hope someone buys into your film. No – not much work with clay. But there is Aardman – the folks who did Wallace and Gromit. That’s clay. But like you said – getting an English Visa is so freaking hard!
BTW, my nickname is ‘Clay’, branched from Clayton but also because I love claymation with a passion. It’s where I first fell in love with the magic of film and decided that I would definately become a film-maker. I was inspired by ‘King Kong’ 1933, but doing claymation as a youngster swept me up into the magic of motion pictures. I can’t just back away from that, either. I have been called on a particular path into the film industry, and so I will follow my dreams all the way there.
Cheers,
Clay
I can tell that this is not the first time at all that you mention this topic. Why have you decided to write about it again?
Should I not have written about it again? It’s one of my favorite things in the world!
Thanks, Clay.
Megan- don’t worry about being passionate, it’s the best thing you can do in these times. I love clay animation as much as you, I’d be willing to bet
Got any rare stuff from Vinton’s? That’s what I’m after. I LOVED the Claymation years. Yesterday alone I watched three of their specials on DVD. At the moment I’m trying to get through all of the PJ’S… But it will be hard. The studio was so prolific at the time, that there’s hours and hours of stuff to watch. And study. And mimic 
Like that videos.
I added some of those and a bunch of others into a vimeo channel. You may check it out yourself: i love stop motion . com