Stop Motion Animation

This year was the year Stop Motion Animation had its Hollywood closeup with not one but two movies - Fantastic Mr. Fox and Coraline. Stop motion is gaining ground in web video as well, from us non studio types.

Here's one fine example of a video made entirely in stop motion - using only post it notes! Granted this is pretty grand but you could also do something much smaller and have it be impactful.



Think about how you could use stickies and basic graphic concepts to get your point across.

Here's a bit about the making of Fantastic Mr. Fox. You'll get an idea of how hard a feature film is - but then don't forget you can, like the video above, get your message across just with stickies, too!



Here is a making of video about Coraline as well:



What ideas does stop motion inspire for you?