Awesome Stop Motion Video! Guy Walks Across America!
Published July 27, 2010 | 
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Viewing this amazing video of a guy named Mike walking across America, brings questions to mind including how long did it actually take, how many pairs of shoes were used during the walking adventure, and what inspired you to just keep walking, and many other questions including was it real?
If you haven’t figured it out by now, the man isn’t REALLY walking the entire way, since Forest Gump already claimed that first. So what the crew did, which consisted of director, producer, photographer, and actor was travel in an RV for approximately two weeks, and every so often, they’d hop out and capture some footage.
In the video, the camera follows the actor Michael Johnson as he passes through different American landmarks you can recognize including Washington, D.C., Chicago, Mt. Rushmore, and Las Vegas. The crew really focused on little filming details including that the camera had to always remain the same distance from Mike in order to give the video its really cool seamless feel (watch the crew discuss the creative process on this video from ABC).
Even though the video was uploaded to the Web just a few days ago, it has already generated over 1 million views, and when you view it, it’s not difficult to understand why, as the video is extremely well done, the result of a lot of hard work and more importantly, careful planning by the crew (look at some behind the scene footage here).
If you’re like us, you might also want to know the captivating music piece that plays during the video is called “Home,” by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros.
Check Out the Google Map of their journey! – Google Map!
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Awesome Stop Motion Music Video! T-SHIRT WAR!!!
Published February 10, 2010 | 
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Here’s another amazing stop motion music video we think everyone needs to view and really appreciate the work it takes to not just plan and put together a project like this, but to actually pull it off (no pun intended) and produce such an awesome finished video.
TECHNICAL EXPLANATION FOR GEEKS LIKE US: “We changed shirts over 100 times each, taking individual pictures of each unique shirt. The designs on the shirts are not photoshopped. They are real shirts for each frame of animation. The video was exported at 30fps, while the T-shirt animation moves at 6fps (with a few exceptions where it moves faster) So, for each shirt, we took 5 pictures, so the animation of us (Rhett&Link) moves at 30fps, but the T-shirt animations move a bit slower. There are a few places where the motion seems so smooth that it looks like video. That’s because, in those parts, there was no changing in T-shirts, and Joe used burst mode to capture the frames, making it look very smooth.”
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Awesome iPhone Music Video by MGM! iFlip!
Published February 9, 2010 | 
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Mystery Guitar Man is at it again with this really cool stop motion video involving an iPhone and….well you’ll see what we mean, and you might start wondering about what other songs would be cool to use for the project.
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Awesome Stop Motion Music Video! Root Beer Mozart!
Published January 28, 2010 | 
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This video and music was created for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‘s birthday… this is the Overture of “Die Zauberflöte” by Mozart. The magic is the overture is played on root beer bottles and made possible through stop motion technology. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would have turned 254 years old today if he were alive today, so Happy Birthday Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (baptismal name)!
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Awesome Stop Motion Video! The ESCP Europe Human Experience!
Published January 12, 2010 | 
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This is the ESCP Europe stop motion! More than 300 ESCP Europe students have worked together to express the values and spirit of ESCP Europe in a fun, imaginative and entertaining way. Key figures: 316 actors, 658 tee-shirts, 9m2 of cardboard, 4198 photos, 123m of gaffer tape for 3645 markers. To bring you face to face with their world, no need for words, the stop motion says it all!
Plus de 300 étudiants d’ESCP Europe se mobilisent pour partager de façon ludique, originale et inattendue les valeurs et l’état d’esprit ESCP Europe. Les étudiants utilisent la technique du “stop motion” pour nous plonger dans leur univers résolument humain. Quelques chiffres : 316 figurants, 658 t-shirts, 9m2 de carton plume, 4 198 photos, 125m de gaffer pour 3 645 repères marqués.
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