Chris Higgins
Stop-Motion Art Project in an Abandoned Space
by Chris Higgins - October 13, 2009 - 3:07 PM

So it’s Tuesday afternoon, you’re wondering what to watch in your cubicle as you slowly recover from a stupendous food coma caused by terrible decisions at lunch. Well, I’ve got a fix for you. In the video below, artists Blu and David Ellis create a stop-motion animation in an abandoned building in Italy by painting and modifying the building, while photographing each step. It’s frankly a bit mind-blowing how much work goes into this, as you watch them paint animation all over the building and photograph it step by step, and then even modify the building (knocking out walls and so on) to fit into their artistic vision.

Worth a look if you’re interested in: art, weird stuff, stop-motion animation, or just staring at something strange for eight minutes.

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) from blu on Vimeo.

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Comments (7)

  1. That’s really cool.

    posted by Patrick on 10-13-2009 at 4:12 pm

  2. Kinda like that Coldplay video.

    posted by Scott on 10-13-2009 at 4:46 pm

  3. @scott
    Except this took 500x more effort than the Coldplay video

    posted by Izam on 10-13-2009 at 5:56 pm

  4. Wow. That’s incredible!

    posted by solice on 10-13-2009 at 7:07 pm

  5. Ahhh I wanna do a stop motion video sooo badly for my senior art show!! This is a fantastic video!

    posted by Megan on 10-13-2009 at 7:52 pm

  6. Amazing stuff–not only the content is great, but the film style is fresh! Thanks for sharing!!

    posted by kc! on 10-15-2009 at 9:43 pm

  7. Skindred Rat Race and Trouble sinc up perfectly to this.

    posted by Skyla on 12-21-2009 at 12:40 am

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