Via the daily what:

Ad spot for BBC Knowledge that sums up the breadth of human history in one minute using stop-motion papercraft and clay.

Sculpey and Clay puppet, mouth replacement webfind.

So Here a test by robyn ng, link to blog here. Only 15 replacement mouths made out of painted sculpey used. I'm liking this look and may take a new direction with the puppet making for this project.

Nokia Spot

using a phone's camera, makes me think what could be possible with an iPhone 3gs?

I love that they show the camera rig at the end

New Software Development...very Exciting!

The past few months I've been doing stop motion tests with a program called iStopmotion. As the name implies it is mac friendly. Though in my search for a practical camera on the stopmotionanimation.com message boards I came across Dragon Stop Motion. After downloading their trial version I was blown away! Not only is it pack with more features that I know what to do with, it's about half the price of all the other "pro" stop motion software out there.

                                          
The program also comes with a USB numeric pad controller. Allow the animation to take place away from the computer.

I'm sold! It gets better, the program allows for rotoscoping dialogue, and includes the tool to scrub an audio track and assign and phoneme sound to it's corresponding frame! Then a dialog box will alert you to which mouth sound will be needed in the next few frames. Brilliant!

According to the website live view capturing is also capable with a handful of EOS cameras...SAY WHAT!!!!

Among these features these also stand out for me:

- Highly customizable line grid to compose the frame.

- In program matte, taking the guess work out of what will be in the frame once cropped in final cut.

- 3D. No joke. With a special camera mount and an other hardware component, 3D rendering is now a possibility.

Knitmation 2

Here is the "Making of..." video for the natural gas commercial. According to an article about the spot, it took a month of pre-production and then 4 days/nights of shooting - 40+ crew and 4 different cameras. Beautiful!

www.knittingdaily.com

Directed by  Olivier Babinet

Knitmation.

So this is a mix of stop motion and live action. I'd love to know how this was done?

"Coraline" Wardrobe

Miniature knitting used in Coraline. Melissa is going to experiment with this once I have the bulk of the puppets done.

"BIG BANG BIG BOOM" - blublu.org

"Madame Tutli-Putli" by Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski

Official Site (English Version)