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this is mind boggling levels of insane. if you've never done needlefelting you can't quite comprehend how fucking difficult it is to not only make things so precise at such a small scale but like, not get the fibers tangled into literally everything else they interact with. and then ANIMATING it??? bro this is witchcraft

@justmossyall

i literally love you guys my other mutual sent me this video as well thank you so much for thinking of me, this is indeed the coolest shit i have ever seen in my entire life

chino1moreno

This person is too good to do this for free.

I mean, stop motion animation is always impressive in the abstract; but it's even MORE impressive (at least to me) when we can see the person's hand holding the figure, and the figure is a poseable toy much like stuff I've played with as a child, and it's all taking place in what seems to be someone's home; that removes the distance of "oh film artists can do a lot of cool things" with its abstract respect, and brings it into the realm of "WOW this is a thing that real people are somehow able to do, with a lot of work".

REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S FIRST FILM SOLELY PRODUCED BY THEIR STUDIO HAD TWO FEMALE CHARACTERS AS THEIR ANTAGONIST AND PROTAGONIST WHO, BY SOME FORM OF DEVIL MAGIC, HAVE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FACES

REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S SECOND FILM NOT ONLY CONSISTED OF A CAST WITH FOUR CENTRAL FEMALE CHARACTERS BUT INCLUDED AN ENTIRE TOWN OF DIVERSE CITIZENS OF VARYING RACE, GENDER, AND AGE. LIKE A NORMAL TOWN HAS.

REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S THIRD FILM FEATURED SAME SEX COUPLES IN THEIR TEASER TRAILER

REMINDER THAT THIS IS ALL STOP-MOTION SO EVERY CHARACTER WAS DESIGNED, MODELED, SCULPTED, RIGGED, AND EVEN HAD TINY CLOTHES SEWED FOR THEM.

also reminder that they make chump change compared to disney who whines and cries that in all their years of experience they can’t handle the prospect of animating a girl with a face different than the rest and that it’s “too hard” because only females can express such a wide range of emotions that it makes them difficult to animate

if a studio with 20-30 years of experience can manage this then SURELY an established studio with NEAR 100 YEARS of experience can maybe, just maybe, include a female that ISN’T a part of their formula

LAIKA !

Also paranormal had a canonically gay guy in it just saying

I feel the 16ft tall skeleton from Kubo certainly deserves a mention

Reasons to watch Del Toro's Pinocchio

Summer Fox Animation

I tried a new method on this one too see how i liked it. It consisted of covering the surface with gaff tape to keep the Fox’s feet in place. Worked okay but would not use it again. I think i just need to get a rig.

REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S FIRST FILM SOLELY PRODUCED BY THEIR STUDIO HAD TWO FEMALE CHARACTERS AS THEIR ANTAGONIST AND PROTAGONIST WHO, BY SOME FORM OF DEVIL MAGIC, HAVE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FACES

REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S SECOND FILM NOT ONLY CONSISTED OF A CAST WITH FOUR CENTRAL FEMALE CHARACTERS BUT INCLUDED AN ENTIRE TOWN OF DIVERSE CITIZENS OF VARYING RACE, GENDER, AND AGE. LIKE A NORMAL TOWN HAS.

REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S THIRD FILM FEATURED SAME SEX COUPLES IN THEIR TEASER TRAILER

REMINDER THAT THIS IS ALL STOP-MOTION SO EVERY CHARACTER WAS DESIGNED, MODELED, SCULPTED, RIGGED, AND EVEN HAD TINY CLOTHES SEWED FOR THEM.

also reminder that they make chump change compared to disney who whines and cries that in all their years of experience they can’t handle the prospect of animating a girl with a face different than the rest and that it’s “too hard” because only females can express such a wide range of emotions that it makes them difficult to animate

if a studio with 20-30 years of experience can manage this then SURELY an established studio with NEAR 100 YEARS of experience can maybe, just maybe, include a female that ISN’T a part of their formula

LAIKA !

Also paranormal had a canonically gay guy in it just saying

I feel the 16ft tall skeleton from Kubo certainly deserves a mention

Laika are goddamn ARTISTS and MASTERS OF THEIR CRAFT. Look at the animation on Kubo and tell me it doesn’t feel more like CGI than stop motion sometimes because it’s so smooth.

I love them so much.

IT WAS REALLY THAT BIG

It really was that big!! I went to a Laika exhibit in 2018 and this took up almost an entire room alone!

Another room was mostly dedicated to the Coraline garden, for reference, the pumpkin eyeballs were about the size of a basketball each

There was so much crazy detail it was mind blowing!

God I wish I took more pictures and had a better camera back then cause it was the COOLEST EXHIBIT EVER!

I mean, who doesn’t love a wall full of faces??

I am utterly in favour of walls covered in faces

I read this and thought “wow Laika? Like the Soviet dog?”. It was indeed named after the Soviet dog.

I love stop motion, especially Laika.

You know, I really should get back into stop-motion animation.

tiny scientist man

Amazing??!!!

DIY Stop-motion animation I did for fun last week using 2 Modibot figures, green masking tape, and 2 vegetable cutting boards.

(Hi-res version here)

I’ve been wanting to try this for a long time now.  Aside from filming toy action figures, this was the first time trying to do actual stop-motion animation.  It was super hard animating straight ahead without being able to go back to redo poses, but the challenge very addicting!

Even though the Modibot figure I animated isn’t a pro kinetic stop-motion armature, I was surprised how well the plastic figure could hold a pose.   

The stock Modibot was only $10 on Amazon!  At that price I definitely recommend it as a super inexpensive way to try out stop-motion. I did however buy some additional 3D printed parts from Shapeways to modify it to have clavicles and an extra spine joint for better posing.

Below is the first test I did earlier last week.  I used the masking tape as a sticky surface for the feet to tie-down to, and a green Modibot for the rig arm.

I animated the run next.  Here’s the green screen version:

Shot using a 1080p Logitech webcam with TV Paint, and composited in After Effects:

I’ll go into more detail on the figure setup, animation, and compositing process in a future post if anyone is interested. :)

god damn this is neat~

I THOUGHT THIS WAS 3D ANIMATION AT FIRST HOOLY HELL THIS IS SO GOOD

Fantastic work! 

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