Papercraft animation

January 23, 2013 9:49 AM

Papercraft animation "The latest stop motion music video from animation duo Katarzyna Kijek and Przemysław Adamski for Japanese singer-songwriter Shugo Tokumaru." [via]
posted by dhruva (10 comments total)

This is just gorgeous... The colours, the figures. The clapping hands are my favourite part.

I wish there was a way to buy a piece or two.
posted by Heart_on_Sleeve at 9:57 AM on January 23, 2013

That was delightful, and engaging, and my brain kept being boggled at the technical aspects of it all.

I wonder if they used a laser cutter?

Nice chirpy song too.
posted by Faintdreams at 10:07 AM on January 23, 2013

Thanks so much for this. I'm a huge Shugo fan, and this makes up a little for the fact that he isn't coming to the northeast at all on his upcoming U.S. tour with Kishi Bashi. He usually has some good animation in his videos (see Green Rain and Linne for examples), but this is the best work I've seen. Really nice.
posted by mcoo at 10:12 AM on January 23, 2013

I love, love, love this video. Especially the fishpants at 2:51.
posted by EvaDestruction at 10:24 AM on January 23, 2013

I wonder if they used a laser cutter?

I hope they used a laser cutter.
posted by RobotHero at 11:19 AM on January 23, 2013

This video is more my style. I like my papercraft music videos whimsical, it seems.
posted by MrVisible at 12:03 PM on January 23, 2013 [1 favorite]

Way to slow starting, but when the figure was jumping, waving, riding bikes, etc. that was pretty cool. Music OK.
posted by BlueHorse at 3:09 PM on January 23, 2013

Mr. Visible: WOW! Not only is the video amazingly well done and quite lovely, but I like the music. Have never encountered the Staves before and am quite glad you posted.
posted by BlueHorse at 3:15 PM on January 23, 2013

I wonder if they used a laser cutter?

I hope they used a laser cutter.

I also wonder. All the parts looked so clean, unlike the usual ash and burn marks for laser cutting paper stock.
posted by Hicksu at 10:30 PM on January 23, 2013

The name of this song is "Katachi" for anyone else who, like me, comes across it and thinks MeFi would like it (glad I searched the artist's name before posting!).

There's another cute video for his song Decorate - it's a zoetrope.
posted by maryr at 9:36 PM on February 13, 2013 [1 favorite]