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Sorry I'm Late is a fantastic stop-motion short film by Tomas Mankovsky. It was shot from above using a still camera. (Thanks, Carrie!)
Sorry I'm Late: stop-motion film
Sorry I'm Late is a fantastic stop-motion short film by Tomas Mankovsky. It was shot from above using a still camera. (Thanks, Carrie!)
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As irrational and surreal as a dream.
Super cool - the physics of motion were consistantly believable!
That was pretty neat.
Though sadly it sort of peaked around 1:23 and interest waned after that.
Cute, but he should have known that car wouldn't go very fast with a hand stuck to it.
OMG, the credits really blew my mind. I had assumed that the "stop motion" was still picture composites, but the whole thing really is stop motion on a giant wooden floor. Amazing, but a little dull..
The creative wealth of our little ball of iron and granite is absolutely stunning!
I feel the same as #5. I wasn't too impressed while watching the actual video because I assumed that it was just a composite of photo cut-outs, animation, and actual video. But the credits proved the true mastery of this film. Really impressive.
This is quite impressive!
As a proof-of-concept it's very good--I loved the combination of things on the floor with things held in front of the camera!
On the other hand, it's a whole lot of work to accomplish something that would have been much easier with animation software and a few photos.
Seems like an interesting technique that's still searching for an appropriate subject. What can be done with this technique that couldn't be done with cutout animation? (Incrementally moving the camera in 3-d space comes to mind... =D )
I really love how the credits show how it's done. It's so nice to be able to watch the surrealism of the video itself, and then get a glimpse at the creative process behind it.
Meanwhile, anybody know if this is related to the equally (if not even more fantastic) music video for Oren Lavie's "Her Morning Elegance"? They have some remarkable similarities, right down to the wood floor background.
This was incredible, i love to see what can be done in real life without the use of computer graphics. Sometimes i miss older movies like aliens or star wars where they had to do everything in real life, it makes it so much more impressive
I think he might have been inspired by the little big planet video game!
@#9 Micah: That Oren Lavie video was outstanding! Thanks for the link!
Peter K. @3 Though sadly it sort of peaked around 1:23 and interest waned after that.
Darn, I came here to say essentially the same thing. You beat me to it, and said it in a much more clever way.
nice, would have been an awesome video for an actual song! ..not just nondescript music
thats amazing...similar one here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0bciQ-5Knw
Hey now, that was an "actual song"! And a rather lovely little one, too. Kind of like something Detektivbyrän might do.
Great.
I love the "Related Videos" feature of embedded YouTube vids. Here's another good one if you have 3 1/2 minutes from Oren Lavie called Her Morning Elegance.