Tag Archives: stop motion

No Noodles is a new short stop motion film by Montreal-based animator Tyler Nicolson, music by Chris Adriaanse. I love the shot of the fish diving in water.

Directed by Jerónimo Rocha out of Lisbon, Les Pasayges tells the story of a group of friends who embark on a vacation in a caravan of vintage vehicles. The destination? Rocha’s scenic office. Learn more about how they shot it over on Behance.

Lastly, Elise Fachon, a 2012 graduate of RISD, shot this animated piece titled PIN as a final for her intermediate stop motion film class where she wanted to examine creating characters using the most simple of shapes. I think she accomplished that and more.

If you have 10 minutes to spare I strongly urge you to watch The Eagleman Stag, a lovely stop-motion short film by UK animator Mikey Please that won the 2011 BAFTA for best short animation. From Jason Sondhi’s review on Short of the Week:

Animated through stop-motion, the film incorporates thousands of hand-created models across 115 sets to tell the story of Peter Eagleman. From a young age, Peter possessed a peculiar awareness of time. Obsessed with the concept that any unit of time represents a differing fraction of one’s life depending on age, he becomes preoccupied with this “speeding up” of time as he grows older, and longs to reverse the process. In the meantime Peter grows, lives, ages. He becomes a celebrated entomologist, and through his work he stunningly stumbles upon a possible solution to his lifetime’s angst.

The foam used to create the models has such strange properties it’s difficult to believe these scenes aren’t digitally rendered. You can see a few making-of shots here. (thnx, jason!)