I have to say I am very exited about this film and I cant wait to see it. I love the character design (they are sooo cute), the attention to detail in the lighting and the contrast between characters. I’m really impressed with this film. Please check out their website and look around, there is so much to see and learn from them. If there is anything to say after visiting their website, is you can clearly see the passion the crew put forth to create this film and you can see it paid off in the final result, Zero.

Congratulations Zero!! Here at Stop Motion World, we would like to wish you even more success! And we will be talking about your film for years to come!

(Look at him, don’t you just want to hug him?!)

About Zero

Zero is a 12’32 stop motion animation by Australian husband and wife filmmaking duo, Christopher and Christine Kezelos. This dark fairytale takes place in a world where the inhabitants are born into a numerical class system. Faced with constant prejudice and persecution an oppressed zero walks a lonely path until a chance encounter changes his life forever: he meets a female zero. Together they prove that through determination, courage, and love, nothing can be truly something.

Zero employs innocently cute characterisation that directly contrasts the dark themes of racism and intolerance that underlies the story. It shows how love and the ability to see beauty in the darkest of places allows us to transcend our loneliness and despair and find an authentic connection to our world.

Narrated by international voice over veteran Nicholas McKay, the crew comprised of multi-award winning filmmakers including director Christopher Kezelos and producer Christine Kezelos, director of photography Matthew Horrex and composer Kyls Burtland.

“I’m truly excited to have worked on a project that seeks to present the issues of racism, bigotry and judgement in the highly digestible medium of animation” said Christopher Kezelos. “These themes are unfortunately prevalent and all too common in our society. We all need a little reminder that there’s so much beauty and love on our planet if we open our eyes to it.”

Christine Kezelos also feels passionately about the film’s positive message. “Everyone at sometime in their life has felt isolated and disenfranchised from their peer group or own kind in some way. I think audiences will be able to identify with Zero’s need to find his place”.

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Paper has never been Groovier… Rob Diaz made this great stop motion and I really encourage you to visit his website. It was filmed completely on a Nokia XpressMusic 5800. Rob great job!

Visit Rob’s blog here

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Sooo Cool i wish i could do this, but im scared of burning down my appartment…

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Found a neat link in my many hours of looking for great content to share with my readers. I thought it was a great idea. Looks like all you need is a web cam and a little imagination and you can horse around with some online stop motion magic!

http://www.piterwilson-toys.com/wcsmt2/

I hope you enjoy the link! See you on the flipside!

C.

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This is probably on of my favorite commercials. The way they present the product is great, first showing how pictures specially the ones you print are like a documentary of our life. I love the flow of it how it just shows you a whole story, that if you think about it it could be any of us, well maybe not all but hope you get what Im trying to say. And its in stop motion that i love so there tell me what you think even if you don’t like it…

This is what Olympus had to say about their commercial:
This is the PEN Story in stop motion. We shot 60.000 pictures, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post production! Thanks to all the stop motion artists who inspired us. We hope you enjoy

Some of the comments we have read here suggest that we should mention the creator of “A wolf loves pork”, Mr Taijin Takeuchi.
While we were looking for a way to realise a story describing “a journey through time” based on printed images, we were inspired by Mr Takeuchi’s brilliant work. For this reason we intentionally quoted his work in our little movie while showing full respect to his original idea. We didnt mention his name because we did not want to do so without his prior agreement.
However after considering some of the comments posted here we have decided to add credits to him and his work, which we obviously absolutely love.

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I love this commertial, I wish soon I can find a post of how it was made. So if you know something about it or we can simply just start guessing. Leave a comment and tell us what you think. I would love to know if you are watching our videos…
Any way leaving all of my rambling aside here it is the bravia commertial.

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Hello this new post is of stop motion commertials that are out there. Found this E bay stop motion commercial once, so in the spirit of sharing here it goes.

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Jordan Johnson made this great animation for a animation challenge. The goal was to make the coolest lightsaber duel possible, and I believe he made it.

The lightsaber and blaster effects were done in photoshop.

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Industry’s Jonathan Bensimon has recently collaborated on a technically challenging and visually rich project involving industry Films, Citizen Jones, Alter Ego and Stealing Time for The Generic Man.

Written and directed by Jonathan Bensimon and produced by Jonas Bell Pasht, Tokyo/Glow follows the nighttime journey of an illuminated man from a crosswalk sign as he embarks on an adventure through the streets of Tokyo. Shot on location throughout Tokyo using thousands of individual digital stills.

To achieve the striking effect of the illuminated man, an original light suit was constructed using hundreds of feet of high-voltage LED rope lights and a translucent nylon outer shell. Michael Lambermont, executive producer at Alter Ego in Toronto, oversaw the effects-heavy post-production process, which included weeks of extensive rotoscoping and compositing in the facility’s two Flame suites, plus a final colour grade, once the effects were complete. Geoff Ashenhurst, editor at Stealing Time, was charged with bringing the thousands of digital stills to life with director Bensimon.

To read more please visit Industry Films

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