Six-second long stop-motion videos from Ian Padgham

June 5, 2013 7:42 PM

Vine is a smartphone app that makes up to six-second long clips that play back on a loop, which might not seem like enough to do much more than capture odd little moments. But Ian Padgham has elevated the format to an art, with a wooden figure animated in stop-motion, animated "postcards" of famous places, art in the making and moving art, and comedy on loop. And to answer the question, "how the heck did you do that?", Ian has a few helpful tutorial videos. (via)
posted by filthy light thief (19 comments total)

Sometimes somebody does something with a medium and you're like yeah, that's what it's for. That's what it was invented for.
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:43 PM on June 5, 2013 [3 favorites]

I'm totally behind the curve. Tribeca already has a #6SECFILMS category, with six winners selected from over 400 submissions. Some are just so-so, IMO.

I'm a sucker for stop-motion LEGO animations.
posted by filthy light thief at 7:50 PM on June 5, 2013

Jack Dorsey recently climbed the San Francisco Bay Bridge and documented the climb in a series of six second videos.
posted by Nelson at 7:54 PM on June 5, 2013 [1 favorite]

I think this guy may be the current king of Vine.
posted by saladin at 7:54 PM on June 5, 2013 [5 favorites]

Very cool...

Oh, and parents, you should know that your children and your children's friends are as we speak using vine to post videos of themselves getting up to all manner of crazy antics in their pajamas and bathing suits, and they're probably using their real first and last names. Just FYI.
posted by Huck500 at 7:54 PM on June 5, 2013 [2 favorites]

Adam Goldberg is making tiny absurdist films on Vine.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:00 PM on June 5, 2013

I see a lot of inspiration from the "classic" (well, they've been around since 2008) 5 Second Films. If you want to see what can be done in a few seconds, 5 Second Films are teensy masterclasses.
posted by ArmandoAkimbo at 8:13 PM on June 5, 2013 [2 favorites]

Is it possible to not make an absurdist film on Vine?
posted by Camofrog at 8:48 PM on June 5, 2013

man and here I thought I was being clever doing a vaguely obscene four-drawing "animation" with vine this morning.
posted by egypturnash at 9:02 PM on June 5, 2013

Maybe it's already in there but Will Sasso's lemon compilation is one of those things I fire up every now and then and cackle like a lunatic over.
posted by Ghostride The Whip at 9:15 PM on June 5, 2013 [4 favorites]

I wish Android had vine.

I have two stop-motion apps on my phone that work really well. The first time I used them, I said "So people used to talk to each other on these things. How odd."
posted by louche mustachio at 9:24 PM on June 5, 2013

Android does have Vine.
posted by herrdoktor at 9:28 PM on June 5, 2013 [1 favorite]

I do love Vine. This one made me laugh recently.
posted by lazaruslong at 9:57 PM on June 5, 2013 [2 favorites]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I21Z7Wy_bk0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-RMDWnzgvU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUI3MILG_a4
posted by whyareyouatriangle at 10:30 PM on June 5, 2013

"My dad is such a loser"

The thing that is so impressive with Vine is there is no fancy editing software. It's all "in camera" editing with the record button.
posted by starman at 3:58 AM on June 6, 2013

My favorite way to consume Vine videos is through Vinepeek, which is a constant stream of whatever was just posted to Vine (posted on the Blue not too long ago). The randomness and complete lack of context makes even the most mundane videos interesting (and, if not, they're gone in 6 seconds anyway).
posted by briank at 8:48 AM on June 6, 2013 [2 favorites]

Nice.
posted by homunculus at 2:00 PM on June 6, 2013

"Based on this Topsy chart, Vines shared on Twitter are about to pass Instagram shares." –Nick Bilton
posted by Nelson at 5:03 PM on June 6, 2013

Combining Vine videos and uploading them to Youtube kind of strikes me as missing the point.
posted by IndigoRain at 9:15 PM on June 6, 2013