Tag Archives: stop motion
4Nov/111 comment
Yet another awesome stop-motion animation: with Jelly beans
Posted by Luigi
This took 22 months, 1,357 hours, 30 people, and 288,000 jelly beans. And it looks awesome. Check out the behind the scenes video of how they did this. [via PetaPixel]
19Aug/11No comments
Summer Camp Stop Motion Movies
Posted by Ryan
On Wednesday and Thursday afternoon we held a workshop where the Exploratorium campers made a couple of large-scale stop motion animation movies. Each of these films packed more action into their less than 15 second running time than any summer … Continue reading
Tagged as: alien attack, animation, car crash, prototype, stop motion, summer camp, timelapse
15Aug/113 comments
Life-Sized Stop Motion Tests
Posted by Ryan
When the museums is closed for the day, we are likely to play with an idea that we are thinking about trying in a future workshop or event in the Tinkering Studio. Today we tried out making some large scale … Continue reading
Tagged as: animation, juggling, life sized, prototype, space odyssey, stop motion, tests
11Aug/111 comment
Mobius: the stop-motion animation
Posted by Luigi
Great idea, brilliant execution. I think there’s something to these large-scale stop-motion animations… Stay tuned for our own experiment coming soon!
3Aug/11No comments
They’ve done it again: world’s largest stop-motion animation!
Posted by Luigi
After making the world’s smallest stop-motion animation, the fine folks at Sumo Science and Aardman Animation now present the world’s largest: Gulp! After watching the movie, watch the making-of below, to get a peek into the enormous effort and care … Continue reading
Tagged as: aardman, animation, gulp, stop motion, stop motion animation, sumo science, Video
19Apr/112 comments
Stop-motion Animation with Wood!
Posted by Ryoko
We had a lot of fun hosting a stop motion animation station at Open MAKE. The topic for this month was Wood, so we collected materials made of “natural” wood. The station was a mess of shavings, twigs, wood chips, … Continue reading
Tagged as: animation, found wood, materiality wood, open make, stop motion, stop motion animation, veneer, Video, wood
15Apr/11No comments
Wood collages
Posted by Sebastian
Making landscapes out of veneer and things I found in the garden was one of my favorite pastimes when I was a kid. I just rediscovered this while preparing for our OpenMake Event. Looking forward to doing Stop Motion Animation … Continue reading
29Mar/113 comments
My First Stop Motion Animation!
Posted by Annie
At work recently, Sebastian and Chad have been designing and perfecting a stop animation station, so visitors can easily create their own animations. Stop motion is a technique of film making in which someone takes a photograph, physically manipulates objects … Continue reading
17Mar/113 comments
Our first stop-motion with metal parts
Posted by Sebastian
….posting this for Ryoko… We are getting ready for Open Make on this Saturday. Following “plastic” and “cardboard”, the theme for this month is “metal”. As an ongoing project, Sebastian, Chad, and I have been working on stop-motion animation station, … Continue reading
23Sep/101 comment
Dot – tiny stop motion animation
Posted by Sebastian
The video shows a fabulous stop motion animation filmed with a specially designed microscope. I love the combination of traditional stop motion techniques and near-microscopic, hand-crafted sets with new technologies. My favorite is the scene where the 9mm tall 3D-printed … Continue reading
Tagged as: 101010, animation, Powers of Ten, stop motion, stop motion animation
