Completly self-taught, canadian, when he was 15 he started drawing comics, but soon realized videos are a faster media to tell stories. This is the starting point of Patrick Boivin adventure in stop motion production, totally self-produced. Patrick takes care of the script, the animation, direction, lights, editing, post production and often also music.

Over 60,000 images taken, 9600 photos developed and printed and  over 1.800 pictures shoot again. These are the incredible numbers for the production of 3 minutes of the stop motion video created by Olimpus who is celebrating the 50th anniversary and the relaunch of the legendary “PEN” camera. Olimpus claimed no post production was used [...]

A couple of really cool videos that have in common the theme of “folding paper”. The first is an Audi commercial that is running a lot in recent days, the second one is a video-asics onitsuka inspired by origami.

Rogier Wieland, 34 anni, è un film-maker ed animatore olandese. I suoi short-movies sono girati in stop motion usando set di cartone in miniatura e sagomine di persone fotografate in varie pose e poi ritagliate ed animate a mano.