#stop-motion-animation

#stop-motion-animation

In order to create a unique visual language for the single, Julia embarked on a three-month-long project of handcrafting and painting 300 individual ceramic tiles to make up the music video frames, each with their own beautiful irregularities and imperfections in glaze. Structured in grids of twelve, these tiles were swapped out like puzzle pieces in the final stop motion, using zoetropes and evolving motifs to follow "the meditative rhythm of the song through repetition, noise, and texture", the artist says.

It's worth stressing this now, especially in light of the controversy surrounding its release on Vimeo a few months ago, where it was given the coveted Staff Picks badge (guaranteeing it thousands more views), then quickly taken down two days later for fear of its graphic content by Vimeo's Legal and Trust & Safety team for being inappropriate for younger viewers. Luckily (or not, depending on the circumstances), YouTube has very few safeguards against content.

When describing how obsessed he was as a kid with Mary Shelley and the Romantics, an artistic movement from the early 19th century, he concluded, "I discovered I was a 14-year-old girl in Victorian times." The audience laughed before he'd even finished his sentence. Getting the reaction he likely intended (though he said it in complete sincerity), the beloved writer-director introduced his 13th and latest film-an adaptation of Shelley's infamous 1818 novel-with confidence.

Tim Burton's cult-classic stop-motion animated film, Corpse Bride, is receiving a limited-edition steelbook 4K Blu-ray release to celebrate its 20th anniversary later this year.

"That little attempt to straighten himself out and then get back to what he was doing only to immediately break down... that's REAL grief right there."

Despite the incredible modern tech available for movie making today, traditional stop-motion work remains one of the most engaging animation styles for many viewers.