Comments on: オオカミはブタを食べようと思った。

オオカミはブタを食べようと思った。

defenestration — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:23:59 -0800

Stop motion with wolf and pig. [SLYT]

By: RussHy

RussHy — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:32:45 -0800

Cute, especially the end.

By: Minus215Cee

Minus215Cee — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:45:13 -0800

Really cute. Note to self: Giant Eyeless Pigs Are Formidable Foes.

By: autodidact

autodidact — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:54:41 -0800

I hate to be one of those guys but is this really FPP material? I personally would throw this post right out the window.

By: I Foody

I Foody — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:03:39 -0800

That was pretty cool, but I kept wondering to myself if he actually used film to compose it how much it would have cost.

By: Rinku

Rinku — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:03:43 -0800

is this really FPP material? Well, I loved it.

By: cavalier

cavalier — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:09:09 -0800

Yeah I had the film question too but then, regardless of the film, in the US you can get prints from digital shots for only like 8 or 10 cents a printout. Even so... wow... so much time and effort... neat!

By: Argyle

Argyle — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:20:29 -0800

Thanks for the post. Most SLYT posts aren't good, but this one is great.

By: askmehow

askmehow — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:22:32 -0800

that was great! anyone care to hazard a guess as to how it was made. was it really done with a series of photos, or was it masterful use of video editing software? also, does anyone know what was written on the envelope? a person's name?

By: Rinku

Rinku — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:32:53 -0800

The first envelope was the title of the video, which is also the title of this post: something like "The wolf decided to eat the pig." The end envelope said "owari," which just means "end."

By: geos

geos — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:33:03 -0800

anyone care to hazard a guess as to how it was made. was it really done with a series of photos, or was it masterful use of video editing software? you can see the stack of photos when they go off the desk onto the wall... so it looks like it was done all stop motion. the juxtaposition of the 3 dimensions of the apartment with the 'world' the wolf and pig were i thought was really clever... plus the recursion in the end

By: echo target

echo target — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:33:11 -0800

That was cute. Neat technique, too. I suspect it was really a series of still photos - I'm not sure how you'd do with with software (at least, not in a way that would be any easier than doing it manually). I'm guessing it's around five shots a second, which would make for well over a thousand 4x6 prints.

By: Pants!

Pants! — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:05:19 -0800

By: deliquescent

deliquescent — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:09:10 -0800

Very cool, very impressive

By: furtive

furtive — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:18:49 -0800

I was impressed at how well they got the train passing by, it must not have been moving very fast.

By: Drainage!

Drainage! — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:30:54 -0800

That was awesome!!! I was about to close it up until the first stairs part caught my interest. Then the train... that was very impressive. And come on. This is 10x better than most of the single link you tube posts.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:42:11 -0800

Yes, awesome, a great example of an SLYT that's worth the pixels. I really liked the bit where he changed the camera angle by standing the photo on end and shifting over. Anyone care to place bets on how long it will be before some famous music video director steals the concept and makes a new Björk video? Michel Gondry gets a pass on charges of style-biting.

By: jamaro

jamaro — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:55:28 -0800

So neat, thanks for the post.

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:59:09 -0800

I loved the perspective change and the swimming across the sink moment. Definitely worth the click.

By: orme

orme — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:02:30 -0800

The end envelope said "owari," which just means "end." Good. Now I know what Japanese character to have tatooed on my butt. Thanks!

By: orme

orme — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:05:23 -0800

tattooed! Also, it looks like the pig is the animator.

By: anazgnos

anazgnos — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:36:06 -0800

Reminds me of Tiny Little Super Guy.

By: Dr. Wu

Dr. Wu — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:59:41 -0800

Quite excellent - thanks for the post. This'll be shown next time I teach my History of Animation course.

By: technically yours

technically yours — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:21:12 -0800

That was one of the best stop-motion videos I've ever seen. Very interesting approach!

By: yhbc

yhbc — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:28:06 -0800

I was wondering what crawled up autodidact's butt, but then I noticed the poster's name. Well played.

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:33:59 -0800

I was half-hoping to have the thing end with a Katamari taking out everything in the apartment. Alas, this was not to be.

By: yiftach

yiftach — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:46:45 -0800

Awe.Some.

By: yoink

yoink — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:09:22 -0800

I hate to be one of those guys but is this really FPP material? Why yes, yes it is.

By: You Should See the Other Guy

You Should See the Other Guy — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:57:00 -0800

I hate to be one of those guys but is this really FPP material? Good Christ, are you serious? This is exactly what Metafilter was made for.

By: luckypozzo

luckypozzo — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:28:53 -0800

Why am I watching this? Because it's on TV.

By: yeoz

yeoz — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:32:06 -0800

Just to expand on yhbc, and, point out to anyone who's still missing the (bad) joke: The post:

Stop motion with wolf and pig. [SLYT] posted by defenestration (28 comments total) [add to favorites] 30 users marked this as a favorite [!]

The comment:

I hate to be one of those guys but is this really FPP material? I personally would throw this post right out the window. posted by autodidact at 9:54 AM on April 13 [+] [!]

Things like that generate so much noise and just end up derailing things. This is why we can't have nice things.

By: defenestration

defenestration — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:40:54 -0800

Yeah. Dude should teach himself some manners.

By: autodidact

autodidact — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:10:45 -0800

This ain't Fark and I remain un-amazed. Did nobody else watch Sesame Street growing up (see the Tiny Little Super Guy link)?

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:54:52 -0800

Amazing technique. Thank you for posting it!

By: yoink

yoink — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:10:59 -0800

Did nobody else watch Sesame Street growing up (see the Tiny Little Super Guy link) Other than the fact that the setting is a "real" apartment and animation is involved, there's no similarity at all between the techniques being used in this clip and those in the Sesame St. one. One superimposes traditional cel animation onto some pretty conventional 3D stop-motion animation. The one in this thread uses 3D stop-motion animation to bring life to 2D images while constantly breaking the 2D/3D distinction (the way the images get deployed in the 3D space of the apartment becomes part of our sense of the "action" that's unfolding, even though it is in a sense extraneous to the images being deployed). Far more work, thought and creativity went into creating this than half the blog-rants, image galleries and newspaper articles that get linked on Metafilter all the time without complaint. Why it is only when someone's creativity takes the form of a video that some people suddenly mount their high horses, I'll never know.

By: autodidact

autodidact — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:35:07 -0800

I guess you're right, it's rather more complex than the Tiny hero guy with the stop-motion recursion. I think you're not giving Tiny Guy enough credit, though. He definitely interacts with the environment and stuff. Of course I'm being a bit contrarian and taking the piss just a little bit. There's even a little bit of jealousy poking through, as this is the type of thing I spend a lot of time thinking about: dividing motion into slices of time in innovative ways. However, I think any Mefi post is better rounded out with some supporting information. Otherwise you may as well be posting to Fark. Maybe the fact that this guy appears to be Japanese is what kept the post a SL.

By: glider

glider — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:42:38 -0800

This is very impressive! I did a much smaller animation using a similar method, printing out frames of video and then photographing them, last summer...

By: shortoftheweek

shortoftheweek — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:06:48 -0800

I liked it a bunch. I'm going to post it on my site. The interplay of the two worlds reminded me of Robin King's 10,000 Pictures of You.

By: tehloki

tehloki — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:05:12 -0800

Whoa. Yet another thing I have a hard time appreciating because I can't stop thinking about HOW MUCH FUCKING WORK IT MUST HAVE BEEN like dear lord is that 2000 photos? 3000?

By: zippy

zippy — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:23:05 -0800

Wonderful. Best of the web!