"When 'Toy Story' came out [in 1995], we thought, 'How long have we got?' But we've managed to survive CGI," Park told Radio Times, as spotted by GamesRadar. "In fact, there's been a resurgence of interest over the years in our stop-motion animation. We use CGI as well, but AI is a whole new thing." "Obviously a lot of people will be fearing for their jobs,"
"The video in particular had to match the intensity and dynamic shifts of the song, with frenetic hypersonic chaos as the general pace, later opening up into these epic breakdowns," Zev says. The fast-paced chaos required a chopped approach. Right from the start, Zev cut up the video into many pieces, working backwards to piece the video into clear visual narratives.
From pieces of everyday white paper, a series of delightful stop-motion animations illuminates how a simple material can be transformed into a sophisticated design. Created by Japenese designer Tomohiro Okazaki, who runs a studio called SWIMMING, "Paper Study" is a series of short intervals in which pieces of cut, folded, and sculpted paper appears to move on its own. Flat sheets transform into voluminous structures before collapsing back into a single plane, and arches, circles, and myriad other shapes move in sync.
Out of Words is made from clay, fabric, and glue: a love story literally crafted by hand that even caught the attention of Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima (The biggest praise we could imagine, game director Johan Oettinger says.) Oettinger dreamed of making a stop-motion video game since he was 12, when he first played 90s point-and-click claymation game The Neverhood.
A Conan the Barbarian action figure ad doesn't sound like the setup for great cinema, but stop-motion legend Justin Rasch (Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Paranorman, Kubo and the Two Strings) has turned it into something special. His short film, created to launch a new Conan the Barbarian figure from Heroic Signatures, feels less like a commercial and more like a lost scene from one of the best stop-motion animated films.