A Short Love Story in Stop Motion

Carlos Lascano made one of the most amazing short films I’ve ever seen. What is so impressive about this film is that it’s entirely stop motion, so every single frame had to be created by hand. I can only imagine how long it took to create 3 minutes of video this way.

Every character was either drawn or modeled by hand, and you can read a little more about Carlos’ process here.

To give you a feel for how popular this film is, it’s been viewed over 6 million times in the last two years. And while that is not always an indication of actual quality, in this case it definitely is. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did, and if you have other great examples of stop motion video please share!
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The Wizard of Time and Speed

The Wizard of Speed and Time is a 1989 low-budget feature film written, directed, and starring animator Mike Jittlov, as well as a 1979 16 mm short film, also by Jittlov.

This is a great little short of the film which lasts about 5 minutes and which was eventually turned into the actual full length version. For it’s day the special effects were very impressive, especially given the fact that it was almost entirely created by one guy without the help of any major studio.
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Panama Canal Time Lapse Video

Panama CanalOk. People are going to think I’m obsessed with the Panama Canal pretty soon since I already featured this other video of crossing the canal.

The difference is, the previous video followed just one boat’s journey through the canal, and this video is fixed and shows tons and tons of boats actually going through the canal.

I find it mesmerizing.
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Julian Beever Chalk Drawing Time-Lapse Video

Aveeno Fountain of YouthI’m assuming that most people have seen the awesome photos of sidewalk chalk drawings that have floated around the Internet for years now, but almost no one has seen a time lapse video of the creation of one of these images!

So, here is noted sidewalk artist Julian Beever creating the Aveeno Fountain of Youth chalk drawing in Union Square, NYC on 01/15/07.
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Time Lapse Lilies

Lilies in BloomThis is a fascinating time lapse video of four lilies blooming. This is the kind of thing you can really only see in a video like this. Well, unless you’re like Rainman and you can sit there and stare at the flowers all day.
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Time Lapse Tower Bridge of London

Tower Bridge of LondonBeautiful time lapse photography video spanning a few hours of the Tower Bridge in London.
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Time Lapse Photography oLondon

Video CameraThis video of London was taken over an extended period of time. I’m thinking a few days… anyway, it is awesome! It starts out a little slow, but the clouds are nice. Then when night starts check out the lights in the buildings.

The trick to keeping up with the coolness of this video is paying attention to the details. For example, did you see the cranes?
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