Loving the way this looks..

MK12 on vimeo (link)

Liking this very much..

more here.

From the looks of the video it has one continual shot, how long did this take?
Technically one continual ‘take’ (some people get fussy over specific vocabulary) – we had to use three different cameras to deal with the enormous range of time scales, more on that below. All three cameras shot at overlapping times [so they could be combined] but the action did happen continuously, over a roughly 18 hour period; starting right before sunset and ending around 11am.

How many attempts did it take you guys?
We ran the thing twice, although the first one was basically a strong rehearsal – we didn’t get enough of it working by then to have used the take (we had to plan, choreograph, and shoot the whole thing in ten days).

How did you sync the singing in stop motion?
This was the toughest part! It came down to a combination of techniques. In the first section we go from real-time into 4x (meaning every 4 seconds recorded becomes 1 second of playback)… at speeds like 4x you can play the music at quarter speed, and have the singing lip synced just by listening to it and singing slowly… this starts to fail around 8x where the audio starts to become unintelligible.

Full post here.

The choreography in this is amazing, clever stuff..

link

sweeet.

like the handmade feel and the way shadows are used cleverly..

i like the idea of the character being able to manipulate the surroundings while walking through a landscape

an example of a real person interacting with animated objects, something id like to try out.

and another..

pretty cool 2D/3D

animated characters in real-world scenes..

another example of a really nice paper/hand made aesthetic..