I try not to post stuff like this unless it’s really awesome. Some enterprising individuals decided to recreate the bullet-time sequence from the Matrix in stop motion with LEGO, and they did a bang-up job.
You can read more about it at their website.
Fantastic Mr. Fox is probably the most unique movie you’ll see this year, and that’s saying a lot. We’re talking about a year that’s seen films like Coraline, Up, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and the upcoming Avatar. Still, I think Fantastic Mr. Fox sits on a level of its own.
We saw the movie last night at a free sneak peek in Indianapolis, and there wasn’t an empty seat in the theater. There was a surprising number of adults without kids, but there was plenty of families as well.
The whole theater was rolling with laughter. Fantastic Mr. Fox doesn’t play out like a kid’s movie at all, it’s basically just a Wes Anderson film that happens to be stop motion. The dialog is witty (and hilarious), the voice acting is great, and the staging and attention to detail is what you would expect from an Anderson film.
Ever since they came out, I’ve been dying to get my hands on the NECA TMNT figures, but have never gotten around to it. I read about the awesome amount of articulation in them, and so I’ve always thought they would be great to use in some silly stop motion videos. This guy beat me to it, and the result is surprising.
Most stop motion videos on YouTube look like the ones I made when I was little, but the animation in this is smooth.
