stop motion
Toys
The Building of the Lego Millennium Falcon: The Definitive Movie
12:40PM Jesus Diaz | Yes. It’s finished—but I didn’t do the video. I couldn’t compete with the genius and patience of David Gunstensen, who sent me the only Lego Millennium Falcon construction stop motion movie you need to watch. More »
Entertainment
Machinery With Organisational Fetishes Come to Life in Stop Motion Short
11:40AM Adrian Covert | Since CGI has rendered stop-motion filmmaking all but obsolete, it’s nice to see someone doing something fresh with the format. In this case, John Douglas Powers has created a mini-masterpiece using various machinery. More »
Computers
Stop-Motion ModBook Upgrade Is Shop Class For Nerds
10:20AM Jason Chen | The ModBook—a tablet MacBook that you can use a stylus on—is cool, but have you ever wondered how it was made? Wonder no more. [ModBook] More »
Toys
Soccer Fan Recreates His Team’s Journey to FA Cup Final in LEGO
9:30PM Addy Dugdale | Fans of the English soccer league will know that today is the F.A. Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, where Premier League mid-tablers Portsmouth F.C. take on relative minnows Cardiff City. To mark the day, Cardiff City fan Ashley Weaver has made a stop-motion LEGO video of his team’s amazing journey to the finals, complete with BBC commentary and black-and-white replays. The two videos took Weaver, who will be cheering on the underdogs at Wembley today, around 40 hours to do, and he shot around 1,000 still photos—that’s around five or six every second. Part two is after the jump. More »
Cameras
Hands On Nikon D60 With Stop-Motion Movie Walkthrough
10:48AM Matt Buchanan | Pop quiz: Which one of these is the D60, and which one is a D40? You can’t tell, can you? Ha! That’s because it really is pretty much the same chassis (and guts) so if you know the D40x, you know the D60. The best new thing is the stop-motion movie stringer, which is quick, if simple—here’s the whole process: More »
Cameras
