Pikapika light painting

Tonight I felt that this blog lacks a good light painting video. So I watched a lot and found some interesting ones (I haven’t watched any for a long time). But for the moment, my fav is still the original “Pikapika the movie – Go ! Go ! Pikapika”.

A Pikapika is an abstract animation film made with flashlights. A series of photographs using long exposures are edited together to make them appear as an animation (stop-motion). You can find many informations about this technique on Pikapika blog.

The making-of of this movie is also available on Youtube.

Oi Va Voi : Everytime

You’ve got paper ? You’ve got a shredding machine (scissors can work too, but it will be a little longer…). You can make a video !

This is how this inspiring video of the British band Oi Va Voi has been made : Every third frame of the footage was printed, shredded and shot three times blended with adjacent frames by different stripes configuration. A work done by Katarzyna Kijek and Przemysław Adamski.

There are a only few shots around about the making-of of this video because “the process itself was pretty boring so it didn’t come to our minds to document it” Katarzyna said. Boring ? I can believe it ! But the result is far from boring. A real pleasure for us.

Sweet Dreams by Kirsten Lepore

Youtube and other broadcasting platforms gave a new youth to the stop motion technique, by giving us a chance to see the wonderful work done by some animators.

Just have a look at Kirsten Lepore’s world, filled with poetry, hope and… sugar

Edit : If you want to know more about Kirsten and her job (She’s a full time animator), read the interview she gave to SuperForest.

Oren Lavie : Her morning elegance

A beautiful stop-motion video for the song “Her Morning Elegance” by Oren Lavie. It has been directed by himself and Yuval and Merav Nathan.