You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb

here are some behind-the-scenes stills from our new music video for Spoon! its a 3 minute stop-motion animation of paper cutouts done by hand and sequenced on a computer. the project is a collaboration between britt daniel of spoon, phillip niemeyer of double triple, and myself...

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we used a canon eos30d with a macrolens on a tripod with a $90 arm attachment from b&h... we used iphoto to select high-res stills then sequenced in after effects...

its amazing how few details I could find online before starting the project, which is why I posted the process pictures... the best advice I can give you, as was indirectly given to me by several experienced animators:

a) 95% of your process you will need to invent/figure out yourself
b) make sure your animation table is at a comfortable height for your back

neither phillip or I had done stop motion prior to this project, so it was an absolute adventure figuring out how to make it work... if you are embarking on this journey, good luck!

and if you are a stop-motion animator, please email us links to your work and/or your animation configuration.

51 photos, 1 video | 6,484 views

items are from between 21 Aug 2007 & 13 Apr 2008.