Cardboard creatures roams a foreboding urban landscape in this awesome stop-motion video created by Sjors Vervoort for a student graduation animation project. Well done, kid. The style does remind me of the past work of famous street artist Blu who I previously mentioned.

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Matilda Tristram created this whimsical and playful stop-motion animated music video for band Omo. Playing with food never seemed so fun! I especially like the jump roping meatball.

Omo - Oversized from LOAF on Vimeo.

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Female street artist Yseult aka “YZ,” pronounced as “Eyes,” created this meditative stop motion video “Still Alive” of blues icon BB King animated from almost 70 street posters. For more information on this artist check out this interview.

This short by Michael Hickox would be right in the middle of a Venn diagram overlapping LEGO, classic arcade games, and stop motion video, which are three popular trends lately in the blogosphere.

The great stop-motion video below was the senior project of a Savannah College of Art and Design student named Bang-yao Liu. The music is by one of my favorite groups, the Norwegian electronica duo Royksopp:

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Laika, a Soviet astro-dog earned the distinction of being the first mammal to go up in space and orbit the earth in 1957. She was also the first casualty of the space program. On a more upbeat note, Laïka is also a spirited and spunky promo video created by Guillaume Blanchet to celebrate the 10 anniversary of a popular bar in Montreal by the same name. This video had me sold: I’m planning on visiting this bar when I’m in Montreal at the end of July. Here’s some behind-the-scenes tidbits in this short interview with Blanchet.

LAÏKA (SHORT VERSION) from Guillaume Blanchet on Vimeo.

Let there be light! An opened case unleashes the proverbial Pandora’s box in this video that blends stop-motion animation with light drawing. Relatedly, check out the Flickr group for other light drawings.

Light Stop-Motion from Felipe Vincensi on Vimeo.

Beshart, a visual communication studio, created this stop-motion animation of headphones doing some synchronized dancing in this fun video, which was created with 1500 photographs taken over 3 days.

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Chris Gavin’s experimental stop-motion film, TXT ISLAND. Painstakingly hand-crafted using hundreds of plastic peg-board letters over several months, this little gem follows the endeavors of a squad of letters, as they delve deep into the jungle of a mysterious island.  Gavin is one of the several extremely talented award-winning directors from TANDEM, an innovative animation studio based in London, UK.

SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.

A mesmerizing short by Xavier Chassaing. This stop motion film was pieced together from over 35,000 photographs!

Coming to us via Japan, this little piggy runs away from a wolf who loves pork in an incredible and fun must-watch video that combines photography with stop-motion animation.

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