Monday 4 February 2013

Stop motion comparison


Dot: The world's smallest stop-motion ainmation 



One of their biggest successes to date is for Nokia with the films 'Dot' and ‘Gulp’. The spots went on to win Guinness World Records for the smallest stop-motion character in a film and largest animation set respectively. 


The artistes are called Will Studd and Ed Patterson, They are an award winning directness who specialising in different forms of animation. Together they are Sumo Science, their aim is to create a 
fresh mix of styles using elements of stop-motion, puppetry, 2D and live-action.

Using little tiny objects helps them show how tiny they are actually working. for example using pennies and tiny pins to walk over.
And all this was filmed on a phone nokia N8 using cellscope technology. 

CellScope, which is a Nokia device with a microscope attachment, was the inspiration for a teeny-tiny film created by Sumo Science . It stars a 9mm girl called Dot as she struggles through a microscopic world. All the minuscule detail was shot using CellScope technology and a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics.

If i was to do a stop motion i would like to do my like 'dot' I am thinking on using college equipment such as paint brushes, pencils, books, paper etc. 
i'm going to base my on 'dot' but change it in many ways. First of all there is only one 'dot' and i am going to use two paper dolls which are flat 2-d shapes not 3-d. In the stop motion 'dot' is running away and so will my paper dolls they will be running away from me and i created them in the first place. They will also come around objects in there way which they have to over come. So in many ways i was inspired by 'dot' the stop motion.




Gulp: The world's largest stop-motion animation 

'Gulp' is a short film created by Sumo Science at Aardman, depicting a fisherman going about his daily catch. Shot on location at Pendine Beach in South Wales, every frame of this stop-motion animation was shot using a Nokia N8, also like the stop motion 'Dot'. The film has broken a world record for the 'largest stop-motion animation set', with the largest scene stretching over 11,000 square feet.
I like how  these two videos are about size and content. I like how they have to do they stop motion really small or extra big.
How this sort of video i would have to find a large arena which i could shot my stop motion. I would have to use big props instead of little tiny ones like 'Dot' just to show big scale the stop motion is in fact. 
I like both videos very much but i would have to say 'Dot' is the one i was more inspired by and would love to use the small method the best and it would be great on. What objects i could use. 





Gulp. The world's largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8. from Nokia HD on Vimeo.

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