It’s kind of crazy that a technique as archaic as stop-motion still holds so much power in film. It’s one of those methods that is anything but seamless, and yet, it’s the minute flaws in stop-motion animations that make them so charming. Unlike other styles of animation, in which perfection is paramount, one of the pleasures of watching a stop-motion film is imagining the painstaking process that went into producing each second.It’s a style that can equally embody the gloom and horror of A Nightmare Before Christmas or a Quay Brothers film, and the quaint sentimentality of Wallace & Gromit or Gumby. But because of the immense amount of time and labor required to make a lengthy stop-motion animation, they’re not nearly as common as other types of animated films (the recent stop-motion feature ParaNorman took three years to complete).Thankfully, there’s a short form format in which narrative, time limit, and the other binding traits of film simply don’t apply, and that is the music video. It’s not as easy as filming a band playing in a couple of different locations and slapping together something quick, but even the most DIY effort can yield a truly awesome stop-motion music video.Let’s see some of the finest examples of music videos created in the past decade (’cause if it included the 90s, it would have been all Tool videos) using this bad-ass technique.Check out all 8 videos over at The Creators Project.
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