It’s not what you wear – it’s how you take it off animate it. This week’s episode features a stop-motion staple: animating clothes. Quick Change is a quick and clever stop-motion pixilation made by Tyler and Ellie Feague.

Watch Quick Change here.

About Tyler and Ellie Feague

Ellie and I started making movies this summer for our own entertainment, but then I started getting really involved with our shorts. So far we have created six movies; you can see the rest on You Tube . Ellie is 12 years old and enjoys watching cartoons and reading. I am 16, I love photography, making fun films and music. I play bass in Project Sign. I get a lot of inspiration for my films from Freddie Wong. Ellie and I will be making movies all summer. It’s our goal to make 30 short movies by the end the summer.

To see more of Tyler’s and Ellie’s videos (or if you wish to keep in touch):
You Tube
Twitter
Myspace

Stop-motion monsters lurking in the dark

This weeks episode, “Innocence”, is a short by creature and character designer Scott Spenser.

“Innocence” is full of classic stop-motion elements, bringing you to a place where eerie dolls and found objects come to life.

My favorite character is the shuddersome robot-like creature with scissor blades legs and alligator clips for fingers, who is just waiting for the lights to go out to creep out the closet.

About Scott Spencer

Scott Spencer is a creature and character designer at the Weta Workshop in Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of the digital sculpting books ZBrush Character Creation as well as ZBrush Digital Sculpting: Human Anatomy published by Sybex and available on Amazon.com. Scott has worked on a variety of projects from supplying makeup effects and design for film to sculpting characters for the toy and collectable market. Innocence was created as a term project at The Savannah College of Art and Design in 2005 with Ben Cain.

Ben Cain is a Director of Photography and Digital Imaging Technician based out of New York City.

www.scottspencer.com
www.facebook.com/eindoppelganger

This week’s episode of the Stopmotion! Podcast features an incredible animation using Lego Bricks.

Rymdreglages 3rd music video: 1500 hours of moving Lego Bricks and take photos of them. Animation by Tomas Redigh and music by Daniel Larsson.

Click here to watch 8-bit here

About Rymdreglage

From their biography at www.rymdreglage.se

“Rymdreglage was formed in 2003 by Daniel Larsson and Tomas Redigh. After they spent high school together, then as DJ Baba and Flyingpickles (bad musical rivals) decided the two youths suddenly to join in a common band. Why then, one might wonder? What would Flyingpickles able to bring the notorious Dj: Baba who had previously played at Mossbrott both one and two times. Flyingpickles or Tomas as he really called claimed that he certainly could sing if all the external conditions were favorable.
It was just to find a moderately cool place with perfect sound reproduction and a light that induced a sort of light shimmer on the walls that made the soul 100% quiet and so was able to free it self from all the inner voices who told it that he couldn’t sing.
Now it turned out that these external conditions were as close to utopia as one can get in modern times. That’s the reason why all materials are released as instrumental versions.”

To learn more about Rymdreglage, check out their website www.rymdreglage.se