50 Incredible Stop Motion Videos
Stop motion animation is one of the hottest areas of film-making today. Stop motion is an animation art through which one can spring life in inanimate things and do the unnatural. It works by shooting a single frame of an object, then moving the object slightly, and then shooting another frame. When the film runs continuously in a film projector, or other video playback system, the illusion of fluid motion is created and the objects appear to move by themselves. This is similar to the animation of cartoons, but using real objects instead of drawings.
Well, how can you make use of stop motion in web design? Some design agencies integrate stop motion in their showreels, some may use it to present a product or a service. The main advantage of the technique is that it really looks different, unusual and therefore memorable. In technical terms, stop motion consists of many forms according to techniques used to create, animate and film it – pixilation, cutout animation, time-lapse, clay animation and many more. Stop motion animation is time-consuming, repetitive process which requires patience.
Below we present over 50 amazing examples of stop motion videos, a tribute to hard work of animators, artists and creative folks.
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Stop Motion Videos
Fat City Reprise – Long Gone video by Cesar Kuriyama
Music video was created entirely from 45,000 Photographs taken by a Nikon D200 DSLR.
This Photographs were stitched together to create the illusion of video.
Human Tetris video by www.notsonoisy.com
Super Mario Bros 3 LEGO video by jmehatesyou
Human Skateboard video by SneauxShoesVideo
Happy Thanksgiving video byMentalLapse
Abstract thoughts video by Darryn ray
A short love story video by Carlos Lascano
Chess clay stop motion video by ricx78
Shaving by Hand video by theyear1988
PSP Commercial video by dark420bishop
7x7x7 cube assembly video by qythium
Rubik’s Cube video by viralvideos
Lego Millenium Falcon video by technomonkeymedia
Chocolate creme suicide video by chuwichuwi
Tony vs Paul video by Tetriscide
Video by Kendall Hunt
Commercial – Swiss Made video by filmbaeckerei
Western Spaghetti video by PES
Commercial: Even your food wants it video by DestinationPro
Tomato video by Androsky Knauer
Livin La Vida Sconsin video by mysteryd8
Music Condenser video by Promesto
Guns N Roses video by ClayMationMCO
Process Enacted video by Jordan C Greenhalgh
Commercial – xBox video by retiredbutBACK
Ad – Hands video by Rocketman1964
Video by MyDriveThru
Light-Paint Piano Player video by Ryan Cashman
Commercial: Marching Cigarettes 1948
Ad- Best Beer video by videos0wnit
Food Fight video by touristpictures
Video by TheLastLaugh
Video by JeanCarpentier
Video by JelleVanDun
Video by SSCxProduction
Video by wemakesoap
Video by Neylano
Spinning Rocks video by lunalady
Video by benzo31
Video by guillaume Noue
Video by Wyc Tippins
Video by Brian Storey
Gloomy Valentine video by Wazza001
MUTO a wall-painting video by blu
Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection video by Mabona origami
Revamped Graphic Equalizer video by Marcelo Costa
Sia – “Breathe Me”
Music video made from several thousands Polaroid photos.
Further Resources
Area for further articles and related resources.
- How to Create a Stop Motion Animation
- Dragon Stop Motion
Dragon Stop Motion is a full-featured stop motion animation production tool for Mac OS X. - MonkeyJam
MonkeyJam is a free PC compatible software that will easily allow you to create stop motion videos. - Stopmotion
Free linux application for creating stop-motion animation. - Web Cam Stop Motion
User generated videos created using webcam. - Video:How To Make Stop Motion Animations
Related Posts
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Wendell
December 31st, 2008 10:16 amThis is a nice gallery guys! thank you! dellustrations.com
DKumar M.
December 31st, 2008 10:17 amNice Collection Guys… Thanks for sharing !!
Been waiting to see more…!!
Eddy Munn
December 31st, 2008 10:18 amVery nice, though the Lego Mario video is not real, the creator explains what he did in the topic.
Sindre
December 31st, 2008 10:42 amAb: Musician video by rizoto1000
I´d like to see that the maker of this video got the views and credit instead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo
Andy Guilder
December 31st, 2008 10:47 amThis is super, hugely inspiring! I’m going to be making my own stop motion animations with the youngsters I work with – thanks smashmag :)
Gabe Diaz
December 31st, 2008 10:48 amWow, great collection of creative work.
Human skateboard is great, especially when they grind along the ledge!
Scott
December 31st, 2008 11:24 amA Short Love Story is amazing!
Jared Foster
December 31st, 2008 11:34 amHere is my Stop Motion.
http://vimeo.com/2624216
Zac Johnson
December 31st, 2008 11:39 amGreat collection. The super mario one is one of my favorites.
Jeff
December 31st, 2008 12:47 pmCollection needs the old Big Chuck & Lil John Show sketch from WJW in Cleveland. Wish I could find a copy.
Wolferey
December 31st, 2008 12:58 pmMusician video by rizoto1000 is wrong, its someone who has posted the video without giving credit to the original maker. The video is “Amateur” by Lasse Gjertsen.
Link to his profile: http://www.youtube.com/user/lassegg
Aleks
December 31st, 2008 1:11 pmhttp://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aS8vYg7Z-lM an amazing video
Phill
December 31st, 2008 1:12 pmWallace and Gromit deserves a mention surely
Dean
December 31st, 2008 1:17 pmThe lego video is fake. He used an emulator and stretched it over the bricks, if you read the description.
Lee
December 31st, 2008 1:35 pmThis is a great application of stop motion. A little old but worth the watch. I WOZ ERE – Richard Coldicott
Thanks for this post, the inspiration you all provide on a daily basis is much appreciated.
hans
December 31st, 2008 1:44 pm“Musician video by rizoto1000″ is actualle created by lassegg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassegg
James
December 31st, 2008 2:22 pmThis is an inspiringly original list. There are so many great stop motion videos floating around,
Schwebbie
December 31st, 2008 4:02 pmGreat list! Though Amateur should have been credited to Lasse Gjertsen. I’m sure he would appreciate it.
Erik
December 31st, 2008 6:49 pmgreat post, 2 nice ads:
onitsuka tiger – made of japan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOUfh1quwKg
audi – unbox the box: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zjg9h8BQJs
Cooper
December 31st, 2008 7:24 pmWhat was the go with the rubic cube one and having the swachsticker (or how ever you spell it)
here look: http://www.grabup.com/uploads/c667da9d7d46c36cc19458d305e70ae0.png
ihsanrama
December 31st, 2008 8:39 pmAmazign ..
How they can do that.. ??
Unbelieveable..
Thanks for sharing.
Franck
January 1st, 2009 12:30 amHave you seen the image displayed at 1’10 of the 7×7×7 cube assembly video by qythium ? Not very funny isn’t ?
3lab
January 1st, 2009 2:50 amreally nice collection, but i really miss one of my favor stop motion video.
the style of it is a bit like the human skateboarding video. very funny and and a really awesome technical work. so, just have look.
i hope promised not too much… ;-)
stop motion fight
ed
January 1st, 2009 3:43 amNice list. How about this one?:
raist
January 1st, 2009 6:44 amMy Lego stop motion : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPUFuyecYec – “live punk concert song / videoclip” – Punkrocket wheelchair
michael
January 1st, 2009 7:00 amor how about this two… :-)
Breaktout
Hand vs Cube
Martin
January 1st, 2009 8:16 amLike many have mentioned: “Musician” is Amateur and made by Lasse Gjertsen.
Ryan Beard
January 1st, 2009 1:21 pmCommercial I worked on from my old design firm: FreeStyle Clothing Exchange Commercial
Alejandro
January 1st, 2009 6:33 pmPeter Gabriel – Sledgehammer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNdMi-Vw2N0
fazlee
January 1st, 2009 7:09 pmI like the origami. very inspiring.
Justin Razmus
January 1st, 2009 9:56 pmI have used this technique in the past. It is very time consuming! You can come up with some crazy stuff if you are willing to put the time into it.
Michael Mallon
January 1st, 2009 11:48 pmReally cool list of stop motion videos!
I run a website called anim8 stop motion which has interviewed some of the animators and creative minds behind some of these videos and more.
the interviews include JelleVanDun, Jordan C Greenhalgh, tony and paul. The site is still in the early days and has been up and running for about six months now.
I think te next year is going to be massive for stop motoin animation with films like coraline and $9.99 coming out.
Hope some of you check out the site and leave some of the animators a few comments ;p
Heppy New Year every one
Michael Mallon
January 1st, 2009 11:53 pmsorry the sites called anim8 stop motion ^^ missed that when i was adding a link. hope every one checks it out here
Heres another very talented animator and only about 16 years old mamshmam:
Dieter
January 2nd, 2009 12:56 amActually 51 incredible stop motion movies :P
I got inspired: http://dieterschneider.blip.tv/#1637930
Ronny Pries
January 2nd, 2009 1:58 amYou forgot something absolutely amazing:
Zombie Zombie – Driving this road…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT7AH4JyuNs
Inkoherence
January 2nd, 2009 2:08 amYou’ve forgotten one of the best: Video3000
http://video3000.de/
Via http://www.inkoherence.com/video-3000-una-joya-del-stop-motion-.html
jaxter
January 2nd, 2009 2:43 amhttp://idea-lab.lv/bio.html there is stop motion in web design
Andy Gongea
January 2nd, 2009 4:57 amSome videos are awesome. Pure art.
Cheers
Kevin
January 2nd, 2009 5:45 amI’ll third the statement that Lasse Gjertsen isn’t getting the credit he deserves. Please Mr. Rodrgiues, do the right thing and fix this ASAP.
Matt Rossi
January 2nd, 2009 6:06 amReally great stuff here guys. You don’t see this as much as you should anyway, most likely because of the sheer amount of work that goes into creating one. A lot of 90′s snowboarding and skateboarding videos had some really cool animations in stop motion, “steak and lobster” being one of them.
Anyway, Happy New Year, and thanks!
Marty
January 2nd, 2009 6:14 amAnother great one is Gabe Dixon’s newest video for “Till You’re Gone”: “Till You’re Gone” on YouTube.
Skitzee
January 2nd, 2009 9:59 amThis should be on the list: pop goes the weasel
J.
January 2nd, 2009 2:25 pmA lot of good stuff, but this is still one of my favorites:
gud
January 2nd, 2009 2:41 pmVery useful thanks
Miles
January 2nd, 2009 2:47 pmThe svastica figure in the 1:10 sec of the 7x7x7 Rubik’s cube assembly (see yellow on black) is unacceptable. No fun, I request to remove it.
Rest of the post, as usual, excellent.
Ryan
January 3rd, 2009 4:46 pmSurprised Vampire Weekend’s A-Punk video didn’t make the list.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XC2mqcMMGQ
Mark Richardson
January 4th, 2009 8:31 pmLove this list. Some of those are very cool.
John
January 5th, 2009 2:42 amHere is a stop motion realized by the creative department from my company
[www.youtube.com]
We used plasticine to create tis stop motion.
Jo
January 5th, 2009 5:14 amI like this one very much!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Nu8bo2d-o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7-ZNtVAieU
Adrianne
January 5th, 2009 8:53 amAgree with Miles and Franck about the swastika, can we remove that one?
Loved the rest of this! What a great way to start my first day back from a long vacation. There is a long string of videos with no sound… is that just me?
Ally
January 5th, 2009 2:01 pmThis one has really inspired me, the song and the idea from the video was recently adapted into a TV ad for a phone company. I think it was all done on a whiteboard with a few markers – Check it out here (youtube video)
Odor
January 6th, 2009 12:51 amLove the human skate board one.
oliverastro
January 6th, 2009 10:22 amAwesome!!!
Megaman 9 Rock in paper…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W_oPVMrx5g
Wayfaring Wanderer
January 7th, 2009 5:35 amI LOVE the bedhead vid……..she is too cute!
Toys45
January 8th, 2009 7:08 amEverybody should watch this one out from McLaren !
Won an Oscar in 1952!
Link = http://beta.nfb.ca/film/Neighbours_Voisins/
Robert
January 15th, 2009 1:56 amDon’t miss this one:
Electrabel – Happy New Year (2009)(FR) @YouTube
Face Tomorrow
January 15th, 2009 4:01 pmHere is a stopmotion music video by dutch photographer Daniel Baggerman for the band Face Tomorrow;
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=fzum9jJUJT4&fmt=18
Mike
January 16th, 2009 6:33 amMe and my mate have made a stop motion video we’re really proud of – please check it out! Here’s the link – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8DvWZKH-sI
Lali
January 18th, 2009 1:59 pmI can’t believe you left out te sony bravia bunnies!!
Michael Mallon
January 19th, 2009 1:43 pmJust thought Id let every one know anim8 stop motion is holding a coraline pack give away to promote the release of Coraline the stop motion film that is going to be stunning,
check out the competition at: anim8 stop motion coraline giveaway
Patricia
February 26th, 2009 2:14 amAhh..you left these amazing stop-motion videos (just youtube- it):
sweet dreams ->
anything by jan svankmajer
sweet wishes by mark ryden
T-Shirt Girl
February 26th, 2009 3:33 pmHuh you might wanna check this stopmotion video: Stopmotion Film
tHeTrUeiMaR
March 8th, 2009 8:21 pmtHeTrUeiMaR
March 8th, 2009 8:25 pmCheck out this stop motion film i made. I think it is pretty good. Let me know what you think
“Cookie Time”
Thanks =]
Aaron
March 16th, 2009 9:31 pmI have two videos I am surprised didn’t make the list:
and
Salute Your Solution – The Raconteurs (sorry, couldn’t find video)
(if you can’t tell, I’m a big Jack White fan)
nexen
March 22nd, 2009 4:47 amI also made stop-motion video-clip:
owgecaqho
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Davey Struijk
May 2nd, 2009 7:57 amI love the human skateboard video… xD
the musician video and the Guinness commercial are also fun.
Celso
June 13th, 2009 3:56 pmThe Super Mario one isn’t stop motion. It’s video of an emulation stretched over a block of laid out legos as per the video description.
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Alexledan
June 20th, 2009 12:40 amI made my own Stop Motion, if you wanna see it :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIlv4duK8E8
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wenling
July 1st, 2009 1:11 amthe human skateboard video was actually directed by PES too, it’s on his youtube channel.
Christi
August 17th, 2009 4:57 pmThank you so much! My 6-yr-old son and I watched this before embarking on his first stop motion film. He wants to try using diff mediums, but we started with paper. He learned a lot from your videos and from the group, TinyCircus.org. he posted the video (with Green Day music on YouTube: http://ow.ly/knxL
Christi
August 17th, 2009 4:59 pmThank you so much! My 6-yr-old son and I watched this before embarking on his first stop motion film. He wants to try using diff mediums, but we started with paper. He learned a lot from your videos and from the group, TinyCircus.org. Entered his film in the Wired.com/Geekdad Father of the Year contest on YouTube. Who knows if he’ll win, but it’s been super fun. Again, thx!!
Jeannette
September 20th, 2009 9:46 amHi guys! Let me share with you my first stop motion I did using a simple canon poweshot camera and some little interesting monkeys!
Table manners http://vimeo.com/2844172
Stefan
October 20th, 2009 4:09 pmHere’s a cool one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNb6pOV0xE8
Lucas Drecksler
October 27th, 2009 7:42 amLook this stop motion made with toilet paper:
http://www.vimeo.com/7280402
Jim Anderson
November 26th, 2009 1:04 amcheck it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RCMkcPV2Wk
BlueCube
January 17th, 2010 8:05 amthis is a really cool stop motion music video using slides http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4rlRD2oIus
Efe
February 10th, 2010 1:47 pmThey are really good stop motion animations.
And i have a blog about stop motion too.
blog : stopmotionart.com
regards.
hed
February 11th, 2010 7:31 pmcheck out this channel,the one named stop motion in particular is very good ,with barely any views!!
http://www.youtube.com/user/ivahedableful
Beau Chevassus
February 14th, 2010 11:07 pmThe greatest stop motion film:
We bought a $15 pair of skis and took 1,700 pictures in Seattle.
Skiing Seattle. Heck ya.
“Inspiré / (Seattle Ski Stop-Motion)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahhDb3pbu6w
What else do you do when you don’t have any snow?
Piece guys!
-Beau
Marcos Paulo Blasques Bueno
March 15th, 2010 3:38 pmIt´s very good!
Marcos Paulo Blasques Bueno
Film Music and Sound Effects Composer
Stop Motion Animator / São Paulo – Brazil
lingo
March 18th, 2010 1:23 amplease watch my channel:
nice human stop motions…
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrLingo12
i´ll do more stop motion videos soon
….and subscribe
;)
smotion
April 14th, 2010 11:14 amZOMBIE KITCHEN – a can of goya beans and an apple start a deadly zombie feeding frenzy in a kitchen in brooklyn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta40tXMEE4U
murad
April 16th, 2010 5:18 amwatch this gr8 stop motion video
hope every one lv it :)
murad
April 16th, 2010 5:20 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4uPaAYJxKk
Bahadırhan
May 8th, 2010 4:07 amI like these stop motion videos. I share stop motion videos on my personel website. You can watch them here: http://www.motionn.com
bricolage.108
July 7th, 2010 9:22 amThank you for the inspiration. Sia’s my favorite one (love polas).
It was really useful while researching for video ideas to make our own stop motion video. You can check it out http://youtu.be/IpBTTFrVIbs
Corcky
September 16th, 2010 4:08 amhttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/xckr0v_snow-street_creation*
an original stop motion creation
This is so shit
September 22nd, 2010 5:31 pmRead my name.
ILoveStopmotion
October 7th, 2010 7:08 amThis is also a very cool illustration stopmotion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACNOKH03sNE
Dragoş Bardac
November 24th, 2010 6:38 amLovely article! I want to share with you my recent work, a stop motion animation music video for the song “Life Buoy” by “The Pixles”
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2lDnDswOgs
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/13782452
More information: http://dragos.bardac.net/life-buoy-2010/
Hope you like it! Thanks for watching!
natalia
December 11th, 2010 9:51 amSTOP MOTION – JUSTIN BIEBER :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyrcdlKtGos
Estefi
December 17th, 2010 4:16 amIf you want to see my first video made in stop motion, enter my youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/jesscats44 I hope you enjoy ^^
arthur kendrick
January 14th, 2011 7:30 amhttp://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/13/sweet-little-rotosco.html
don’t forget about this video. time lapse+rotoscoping animation+stop motion
Michael
January 31st, 2011 2:59 amNiicee… =)
My classmates and I also made a stop-motion-short film for the Austrian Red Cross
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNzJ9kFQ6Ho
aoife
February 20th, 2011 4:23 pmlove these!
we’ve just made our first stop motion music video, check it out here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rORBUkmdVdY
Robbo
March 25th, 2011 9:24 amI came across this recent music stop motion video on Youtube – Beer Vivaldi! A guy performs Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’ entirely on beer bottles, glasses and kegs in a motion/stop motion style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiwH_vFscQg