We all loved this the first time arround, so why not do it again for big sponsors? Here is T Shirt Wars 2 and a making of, really good funny stuff, check it out!

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This short film has been out for a while now, but since we are always looking for amazing work to show you guys this is no exception. Written and directed by Sally A Ward, as you will clearly see a big influence of Tim Burton, (We love Tim Burton too!!!) but without a doubt this piece can stand on its own. There is a great interview Sally did with Frederator, so please don’t forget to check it out. Great talent by Sally and I know we will soon see more of her amazing work soon!

Filmmaker Sally Andersen Ward’s “Left Brained Larry & Right Brained Rachel” is a favorite on the internet. Here, the writer/director tells us about the creative process. It’s a rather unique one, since the school she made the film at doesn’t have an animation program.

Channel Frederator: Where did you study animation/film?

Sally Andersen Ward: From September 2008 till May 2009 I attended the European Film College (EFC), an 8½ month foundation course in film making. During my stay I had many great courses, where scriptwriting was definitely my favourite. I ended up having it twice, both as a regular and masterclass.

It was during the masterclass that I finally decided to write “Left-brained Larry & Right-brained Rachel” (L&R), an old idea I had been carrying around, but that I didn’t think would be possible to make with my level of experience. The amazing thing about L&R is that almost none of the people who worked on the film had any animation experience as the EFC does not specialize in animation. When I delivered the script for the year’s Final Projects, I also had to deliver a package describing how exactly the film were to be made in order to convince them that I knew what I was doing. So during about two weeks time until the Final Project deadline I had to gather as much knowledge about stop motion as I could, relying mainly on advice from other students and the things I learnt from a one-day course in 3D animation that the school had arranged.

I was really nervous about my package, but somehow the school was convinced and they chose it to be one of the seventeen Final Projects to accumulate our year. I sighed in relief, but quickly had to toughen up once again, because now we faced a month of very hard work. It was basically “Learning by doing” and amazingly enough we got a crew together of all the right individuals who each contributed with an important element of the production. The learning curve was very steep, and when you look at the film you can definitely see a difference from the first scenes we animated to the later ones. We were all especially thankful to have Peter Witus Nielsen, who was the only one with experience in animation and who had the technological knowledge that made all the things that stop motion could not deliver possible. Without him, the grand climax of the film would probably have looked cheesy and strange. He added effects like smoke and lightning, masked out the wires that made Larry and Rachel fly into the air, made lip sync and corrected all the little mistakes like light change and camera bumps that especially occured in the beginning of the production.

CH: Who are your favorite artists/filmmakers?

SW: Tim Burton is without a doubt my biggest role model and it should be quite clear from the look of L&R. I grew up with his films and they have definitely affected me deeply since I was very little and I guess it therefore seems natural to me to tell these stories of strange outcasts in a simplistic, but visually rich manner. Of course I also adore Henry Selick who has brought us amazing works in stop motion animation. Since I saw Coraline this summer, I’ve watched it several times in order to study the animation closely. It’s really amazing.

In general the artists I look up to are mostly directors with a very distinctive visual style. Some of these are: Wes Anderson, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, The Coen Brothers and Hayao Miyasaki.

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I wish I knew how to do this on wood, my favorite thing is how the wood has that soft warm light thats seeps through. Very nice work and hope to see more work like this one very soon! Congratulations Tim on this great piece.

Like the proud parents of a new-born child, we present you with the labor of love that is the video for When I Am King by Dutch indie rocker Tim Knol. The video was painstakingly put together by hotshot superbot Sverre Fredriksen who soldered ten tons (or thereabouts) of timber to create the images, and stop motion to animate them – averaging five hours of work per second shown. The clip was produced by our hot sister, YellowSubmarine, and we took the opp to create a ‘making of’ video, which you can see on 2Pause.com (our homage to the art of music vids) along with this video and many many more.

Credits:
Director: Sverre Fredriksen (svrrmasjon.net)
Assistent director: Mireille de Koning
Assistants drawing/pyrography: Gözde Kırcıoğlu, Sylvie Flamand, Mustafa Kandaz, Tom van der Heiden
Additional audio intro/outtro: Bram Meindersma

Production co.: Yellow Submarine (yellowsubmarine.nl)
Producer: Ellen Hoffmann
Production manager: Olivia van Leeuwen, Anne Bareman
Production assistent: Marah Haan

Technical assistants: Maurice van der Bij, Per Sveinung Larsen, Tom van der Heiden, Zoltan Korai.

Manager Tim Knol: Matthijs van Duivenbode

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This is just hilarious I hope you guys like it! Great work by Shion Takeuchi graduate from Calarts, I really hope too see more of this great work soon.

This is my fourth year thesis film from Calarts. It was made using puppets, Flash, and motion tracking.

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This video reminds me that creativity has no limits, and sometimes the simplest things are usually the best. Please look at this amazing video and I hope you find it as inspiring as I did.

Official music video created by Katarzyna Kijek & Przemysław Adamski.
2010

Video made with 1 km of yarn and four different flashlights and one lamp (Living Colors).
Yarn was shaken and illuminated in different ways and shot in stop motion.

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Canon does it again, another stop motion video to promote his Olympus camera. On a personal note I couldn’t be happier to see great stop motion commercials appearing, specially of Canon or any other camera equipment that is critical for stop motion, so Yeii to Canon!

If you want to see their previews commercial, that I fully recommend please click here.

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This link was sent to us by our good Twitter friend @StudioCGT (I recommend you check out their work its awesome!) Its Prince of Persia done with Lego stop motion, all of those combination can just say one thing… AWESOMENESS!!!

There are a few things I hope are written about me when I pass on. One of those — the naming of my child Wilford Brimley Cocoon Jacks — has yet to happen, but number two on the list is ready to be crossed from my bucket list. Over the past month, my colleague Matt Harper and I have been diligently re-creating the “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” movie trailer using nothing but Legos. It’s been a strange trip since I first laid eyes on a two-inch Ben Kingsley Lego figure at Toy Fair earlier this year, and I immediately knew it was my destiny to animate him.

Watch Prince of Persia Stop Motion and finish reading article

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Very nice work done by Nirvan Mullick from CalArts, I would also like to take some time to ask everybody to please check out his 1 Second Film its a non – profit organization and the film will consist of 1 second film followed by 1 hours of credits, and you can have your name on those credits!! Please check out their website and participate its all for a good cause http://www.the1secondfilm.com/.

January 16, 2009 — a surreal tale told with stop-motion, hand drawn-animation, and cutouts, set to music by ben harper. made by Nirvan Mullick and Benjamin Goldman while @ calarts

more info/work:
http://nirvan.com
http://benjamingoldman.com
http://benharper.com

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Check out this music video directed by Karim Naguib, really got job Karim, love the style and I wish I could understand the lyrics, so if anybody wants to translate it for us we would really appreciate it. Hope yo guys enjoy it!

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Great reel done by Neil Kingma, with some great examples of amazing production animation, love Celebrity Death Match, ooh why why did it go away….
Neil great work!

Animation from various shows, produced by Cuppa Coffee Animation:

Celebrity Death Match – MTV
Rick and Steve – Logo / Teletoon
Jojo’s Circus – Disney
Little People – Fisher Price

And if those examples of great animation were not enough, here we have a behind the scenes and as you can see, the looooooong hours it takes to make amazing animation. Thanks for showing this Neil!

With a picture taken every two minutes, this video gives an idea of how much time goes in to a stop motion animated scene.

The first shot involves a camera move, which required several tests before finding the perfect number of millimeters required between frames

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