Thursday, July 29

Amazing Stop Motion Videos

by Karen Robert

I am starting to think about our Christmas Card. Too early you say?  Aaaw, then I guess you don’t know me…I am obsessive when it comes to Christmas cards. I am considering going to even greater lengths this year. I have been thinking of trying to do a stop motion video. Stop motion videos are all the rage as you can see from my previous posting on Save the Date videos,;  quite a few stop motion videos made the cut. So I ‘ve been scouring the web in search of  an idea which is not too hard to do for our Christmas card. I thought I’d share with you some of the best ones I’ve come across. Who knows, maybe you’re as crazy as I am and I can inspire you to do an over the top Christmas Card using stop motion this year. Hey, if people can do it for their Save the Date cards, then why not for their Christmas cards?

This one is called The Human Skateboard.

This one is a Thanksgiving themed one:

This video is an old favorite, seen millions of times on You Tube:

But it is not as famous as this one, seen over 13 million times on You Tube:

It is called Oren Lavie – Her morning elegance from Mimì on Vimeo.

This one is lovely, using only hands, I wonder if this was easy to do:

And this one with hands is also lovely:

I love this one of a guy shaving himself with his hand:

The following one is quite cool by Tony and Paul of Tetricide

I bet this one wasn’t that hard to make, but it is fun to watch:

It is called Bed Head Stop Motion from Kendall Hunt on Vimeo.

I love the following one:

It is called Western Spaghetti video by PES
This one is an ad for Heinz:

it is by Destination Pro
I love the idea of using this concept for a Christmas card, but it looks quite tricky to do:

But this one doesn’t look all that tricky to do. I’m sure it is though

It is called Revamped Graphic Equalizer from Marcelo Costa on Vimeo.

I also love this one:

It is called The Last Laugh
The only stop motion video for Christmas that made the cut is this one which is an ad:

Many of these videos I discovered thanks to Smashing Magazine with an article on their favorite stop motion videos. However, they also have some tutorials on how to do stop motion videos and it looks very tricky. I hate to admit it, but I think it is over my head. I think I need to wait until my son and my nephew are in college. One wants to study animation, the other wants to study film, so I’ll wait until I can hire one of them. In the meantime, if anyone does anything like this for their Christmas card, or for any other occasion, please let me know because I would love to feature it.

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