Comments on: The Good, the Stop and the Motion

The Good, the Stop and the Motion

bjrn — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:30:10 -0800

The animator Pes has just released a new stop-motion short: Western Spaghetti.

Since last being mentioned on MeFi, he's made a number of stop motion shorts, including the Human Skateboard which did the rounds a while back [on MeFi] and Game Over. For those interested in a bit of background there is an interview with him about Game Over and two making of movies, one about Roof Sex and one about Kaboom.

By: le morte de bea arthur

le morte de bea arthur — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:51:51 -0800

Thanks. That's absolutely wonderful.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:00:45 -0800

Nice recipe

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:18:36 -0800

That was delightful.

By: DU

DU — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:18:38 -0800

Wow, that was really awesome and creative. How did he do the water effect?

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:33:23 -0800

How did he do the water effect? Bubblewrap

By: DU

DU — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:36:10 -0800

OK, I can see that for the boiling water. What about the cool water?

By: cashman

cashman — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:16:01 -0800

That's pretty swell.

By: liza

liza — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:44:26 -0800

we just had a teletubbie moment here with my kids squealing, "Again, again!" thanks :)

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:52:09 -0800

And it doesn't have any calories!

By: bjrn

bjrn — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:54:45 -0800

I was wondering about the cool water as well. I think it's sheets of some semi-flexible plastic, perhaps the kind you get for overhead projectors. That's just a guess though.

By: aftermarketradio

aftermarketradio — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:19:56 -0800

I was just about to post this. Nice work, old bean!

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:26:46 -0800

That made me hungry.

By: krilli

krilli — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:53:55 -0800

NICE

By: krilli

krilli — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:55:12 -0800

Oh, it's actually better without sound. Check it out.

By: ThusSpakeZarathustra

ThusSpakeZarathustra — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:05:56 -0800

I second the teletubbie moment. I lost possession of my laptop for about 45 minutes. When I came back, my 5-year old was browsing around on MetaFilter. [winces] I think it's time to sit my kids down and have "the MeFi talk". I was hoping to put that off a few more years. They grow up so fast.

By: spock

spock — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:20:54 -0800

That was unbelievably cool.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:55:48 -0800

Nifty.

By: gorgor_balabala

gorgor_balabala — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:10:53 -0800

I went to school with his co-animator, Javan Ivey (who also did "My Paper Mind" posted here awhile back), and I feel he added a lot of his own wonderfulness to this short. The people who do this sort of thing are mighty clever. I only wish cartoonbrew had posted this at another time than July 3rd, when no one was surfing the internet except me and the Geektons.

By: rokusan

rokusan — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:28:57 -0800

I think it's time to sit my kids down and have "the MeFi talk". They probably have the still-sharp evolutionary skills to rock at the fake-tits game.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:56:27 -0800

Oh, cool. This is in this year's Animation Show, which I just watched. The water was bubble wrap.

By: Nedroid

Nedroid — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:35:54 -0800

I've been checking out his other shorts, and while his stop-motion is great, Dogs of War is just brilliant.

By: Guy_Inamonkeysuit

Guy_Inamonkeysuit — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:16:55 -0800

Delightful. I am going with bubble wrap for the "water."

By: Guy_Inamonkeysuit

Guy_Inamonkeysuit — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:17:25 -0800

On preview, dammitall, Pronoiac, ya got me.

By: Guy_Inamonkeysuit

Guy_Inamonkeysuit — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:18:45 -0800

Balls. Fearfulsymmetry got me, too. I gotta learn to read these things before I post.

By: clearly

clearly — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:08:09 -0800

That was fantastic.