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Stop-motion videos are always a good time, even if it’s just a stick figure dancing in a flip book. So imagine how fun a stop-motion video made with velcro (yes, velcro) is. It’s a freaking mind trip.
The video called ‘Freckle’, which was directed by Mike Cantor, uses 19,000 velcro dots to act as pixels to create shapes. The technique to pull off this video is just like old fashioned stop motion with some fancy tricks, “thousands of colourful velcro dots are arrayed like pixels onto a grid, photographed, and then superimposed one frame at a time onto live-action video.” Velcro is fun! [Vimeo via Laughing Squid]
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Stop motion bit are good, live bits are terrible.. A waste of 19,000 velcro dots on such a awful song!!
Agreed, this is one awful song.
Will someone think of the children!
I agree, I don’t get it. If you are going to do stop-motion then do stop-motion, don’t do stop-motion with a load of digital editing and effects – pointless. You may as well just scan in a few velcro dots and do the whole animation in After Effects, if you are going to dilute a good concept already.
A good premise spoilt on two parts, needed twice as many dots to make the clarity of the stop-motion work and then adding all the digital crap. And nothing against digital crap, but if you are going to walk that road then walk it and knock yourself out.
Old idea poorly done.
Still it’s way better than I could do. Casey thought it was amazing enough to share.
Everyone’s a critic.
I hold a BA(hons) in Film and Animation – it’s shite.
But still Casey thought it was good enough to share. Like all art it’s shite-ness is subjective to ones own personal taste.
Everything artistic is subjective, that is why in the artist world people usually seek the opinion of professional experts.