How stop motion animation began

[@bcpjw]

It’s must’ve been a hard day’s night for the beetles

[@ishmaelveagra5436]

Amazing 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@schnieti]

Yeah they've been working like a bug

[@skripnigor]

I got the joke and it got me scared at how old I am.

[@schnieti]

@@skripnigor It should show you that you have a good taste in music rather than beeing old. So congrats :D

[@majortom6174]

@@skripnigor Age has nothing to do with it lol.

[@lawd-p9b]

there's always this magic of stop motion on being able to give life into inanimate objects. probably the reason why it's my favorite medium in animation.

[@SSKMusicBeats]

you mean dead bugs lol

[@Flesh_licking_spider_monkeys]

@@SSKMusicBeats dead bugs are technically inanimate objects.

[@NickMate]

I watched "The camera man's revenge" for the first time this month. Hella trippy. Had me engaged every second

[@almostnessie6773]

Mom: what are you doing Me, in the process of recording insect adult films: nothing

[@wijcik]

🤣

[@carolyngair7051]

And did you? Make a stopmotion insect film?

[@suxas9066]

Dat dragonfly a *T H O T*

[@hpm06]

Lol

[@sinoroman]

i swear, everything starts out as a kink

[@mBUSHattack]

🤣

[@randyrichmondiii9021]

@@mBUSHattack you deserve a sub

[@matthewquartermain8291]

@@davidpearson6346 a kink for commenting

[@constantinethecataphract5949]

Insect fetish guy didn't invent it tho

[@Sassmill]

When I was little I always watched the Wallace and Grommit shorts, and then I was gifted a behind the scenes book on the stop motion work done for Chicken Run and became really obsessed with Aardman and stop motion in general. I used to make my own figures out of clay and animate them on my dads old camcorder... wonder whatever happened to them...

[@Bibliothekaresse]

Toy Story-wise they're probably waiting for you to return home.

[@DarkAngelEU]

@@Bibliothekaresse Or they have become forgotten toys :'(

[@heavyshift1]

Same as you!😊

[@posaidon8]

Nobody: Man from Lithuania: I want to see dancing insects

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Boring meme.

[@regeman100]

he is from Poland actually, but i guess no one cares in the end

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

@@regeman100 He was Lithuanian.

[@jeshkam]

These memes are boring, annoying and looong dead. Think of something different.

[@sircourgette]

posaidon0802 I beg to differ

[@oldfilmsandstuff4679]

As someone with a real interest in early cinema, it's great to see well researched and put together videos on the subject

[@somespecies]

Someone do this stop motion thing to my corpse

[@ShengTheCraftsman]

no

[@ShannonMcDowell71]

Um, challenge accepted? :-D

[@wylnd]

Would be interesting for sure. With the consent of someone while they were still alive.

[@sirsnakespeare]

Necrophilia entered the chat

[@Nopinopa]

It's actually a nice idea...

[@ShannonMcDowell71]

"The Sculptor's Nightmare (1908)" is still disturbing to this day! Is this an early use of "claymation?" Amazing work!

[@jessetorres8738]

"A staggeringly weird tale, of insect infidelity." You mean there's a normal tale?

[@matty9460]

"a staggeringly weird tale, of insect infedility"

[@jessetorres8738]

@@matty9460: Fixed it, thanks.

[@matty9460]

@@jessetorres8738 that wasn't my point, my point is the comma changed the meaning of the sentence With comma, the tale is staggerongly weird Without comma the tale of insect infidelity is staggeringly weird

[@jessetorres8738]

@@matty9460: I was referring to that I used "tell" instead of "tale."

[@timehikes]

A Bugs' Life

[@AnnabelleLeeTx]

Mary and Max is one of my favorite stop motion films. Dark poignant and beautiful

[@Risulfur]

Stop motion movies makes me feel uneasy in general but since I'm from Lithuania, I press like

[@timehikes]

Thats loyalty

[@dkim51]

beetles getting more action than me now

[@RazorBlade-eh9br]

dead beetles too

[@retardpillprovider492]

Oof

[@retardpillprovider492]

RazorBlade7201 *necrophilia has entered the chat*

[@TheLaybackTV]

Lol beetle on beetle violence😂😂😂😂😂

[@khanhnguyennam6007]

Ger Many Like when John Lennon left?

[@khanhnguyennam6007]

Ger Many Man, you been missin out

[@maxdondada]

Pingu is my favorite stop motion animation.

[@HudaefCares]

Nyot nyot 😂

[@Espen.Johannesen]

Yaaaayyy

[@hawksdcc]

Pingu! I also love Pat a Mat

[@warrensterling3284]

Noot noot

[@maxdondada]

R.E.F.N.E.V. Comerade? Me? Confused as I am Canadian and Pingu is Swiss.

[@mayanksaharan9951]

Jan Švankmajer, a great surrealist from the Czech republic!!! A lot of his films are on KZbin for free

[@denzeltan4190]

Who else is here procrastinating?

[@brnne]

Me, or just running away from my problems

[@_JayRamsey_]

I kind of feel like most, if not all, time on KZbin is spent procrastinating. There is always a more productive undertaking one could be putting his or her time toward. tl;dr: yeah, me.

[@Lumberjack_king]

Just woke up trying to not talk today aka don't talk to other people this is ok because I'm not making noise

[@quiche_lorraine]

I should be getting ready for work. But I'm not

[@christlifemanembu8960]

Its 4.46AM, i have classes at 10.30 and i haven't take a nap

[@aleksandrasrimdzius]

Polish also argues that Starewicz belongs to their cultural heritage. Sadly, most people at least in Lithuania are oblivious of his legacy. Thanks for bringing this up in such a high production value.

[@matazyo]

I have been Living in Kaunas for 5 years now and I had no clue about this!

[@dylandreisbach1986]

"I revolutionized stop motion by wanting to make my dead bug collection dance!" Weird flex but okay.

[@arthursimsa9005]

invented*

[@sircourgette]

As someone who loves entomology and animation I am here for this

[@Animatortor]

This is awesome, so rich information... even some stuff I didn't know about the origins of the art form - love it :)

[@isaacmartinez6904]

I always thought King Kong changed the stop motion animation forever. At least I now know the origins of stop motion.

[@sara.rae08]

I loved Reynard! Stop motion has always been fascinating to me.

[@blackfriarsffc5232]

Brilliant work!! Thanks Vox! Also check out (if it has not already been mentioned), Canadian filmmaker Norman McLaren, his famous stop motion film is called Neighbours

[@ImacrosI]

Great stop motion movies I can think of from the top of my head: The infamous "Tony vs Paul", which shows many great techniques and "Star Trek ENTERPRISE II Der Anfang vom Ende" Both must have taken an incredible amount of work and both are here on KZbin for free.

[@theancestor9345]

Coraline has to be my favorite stop-motion movie ever. It scared the living heck out of me, when I was a kid

[@44BlueFoxes]

I really like Arch Model Studio. They worked on Frankenweenie, Isle Of Dogs, Grand Budapest Hotel & they did the Sipsmith gin advert, which is a thing of beauty.

[@DamienDrake]

RoboCop 2 is the greatest example of a live action film using stop motion for visual effects in my opinion. The animation is fantastic and blended as well with the live action environments as I've ever seen.

[@peacewillow]

that's incredible!! thank you so much! oh, and my faves? rudolph the red nosed reindeer, gumby and wallace and gromit, but i haven't seen a lot of those old ones!! 💗

[@geraltrivia951]

These films creeped me out as a kid. I remember having nightmares only enhanced by grotesque and unnatural stop motion movements.

[@richardbell7678]

A stop motion film worthy of comment is the winner of the 1953 Academy award for best animated short "Neighbours", by Norman Maclaren. While this film does have a few short segments of live action, most of the film is a series of still images of the actors. Norman Maclaren also created the musical score in an almost unique fashion: the music was not recorded, but painted directly on the film. The technique is documented in the short film "Pen Point Percussion".

[@The_Hayden]

As someone who does Stop motion, I thought this was great!

[@serena6464]

Jan Švankmajer's Food is a fave of mine along with Jiří Trnka's The Hand

[@waddingo]

Thank you for mentioning Švankmajer.

[@casir.7407]

thank u vox for catering to my very niche interests

[@podstudios7106]

This animation style has boosted the sales of lego

[@jonesmeganm]

The Brothers Quay make incredible stop motion animations.

[@juniormynos9457]

The beetles ending was much more climactic than GOT season finale

[@GregorShapiro]

Yeah the GOT finale was so ... meh... that I have had to imagine my own!

[@tzwacdastag8223]

0:00 When you run out of Human ACTORS

[@CybershamanX]

(3:20) A surprisingly poignant statement in light of what we are starting to see with regard to the debate surrounding digitally animating actors today.

[@ipostanythingandeverything8554]

Lithuania, vox really? You're finally mentioning my small country! That's really cool actually now that you think about it. A million subscriber channel doing what was never needed to be done.

[@funkykidkite]

It makes sense that the bar that the beetle enters has a French name. French cafes and architecture was wildly popular in Kaunas. Some even called the town “Little Paris”.

[@calixtetayoro5719]

Amongst the best stop motion films outside Hollywood: 1) TANGO (1980, Poland) Zbigniew Rybczyński; 2) Neighbours (1952, Scotland / Canada) Norman McLaren.

[@DarkAngelEU]

Also the Polish version of Alice in Wonderland. Now THAT'S a trip!

[@kidkurmudgeon-0_o]

@@DarkAngelEU Lil Otek (same director) & Shorts from the Brothers Quay

[@Im_GP]

My favorite stop-motion movie has to be Fantastic Mr. Fox! I will no doubt be checking out Le Roman de Renard after this to see it's initial influence. Phenomenal work Phil

[@krealyesitisbeta5642]

This man made a movie about bugs and toys coming alive that changed the industry of animation. Sounds familiar? (Pixar.)😊

[@MH-qk9qg]

A bug's life and toy story. I see you

[@unattitude]

Best stop motion? There's so much goodness out there. But probably my all time fav is Street of Crocodiles by the Brothers Quay

[@hellosabrinachaney]

Don't miss out on Soviet-era Russian stop-motion films! Check out My Green Crocodile (1966), Ball of Yarn (1968), Cheburashka and Crocodile Gena (1969), Hedghehog in the Fog (1975)...they're all like watching a fairy tale.

[@narwhal5447]

My favourite movie of all time is Fantastic Mr. Fox, a stop motion movie by Wes Anderson

[@Adam-Loomis]

Thanks for this in depth look at Starewicsz. I wish you would have drawn a more direct line to how his film The Night Before Christmas inspired Tim Burton and Henry Selick, and their films. My favorite stop motion film of all time is Hedgehog in the Fog by Yuri Norshteyn. I would love to learn more about Norshteyn but I’m not sure where to start.

[@zazaza903]

l love Vox-always learn about new amazing things

[@bane937]

Isle of Dogs has a special place in my heart :)

[@bighuman6137]

If an insect cheats on his wife and nobody films it, did it even really happen?

[@optimistthebunny8315]

Funny that this would come up as I'm in the middle of shaping my own characters for a stop motion series. Uncanny coincidence.

[@pelketelke]

Finaly something interesting in Lithuania!

[@aberrantartist]

This is so cool. A week or two ago I tried to do stop motion

[@katherinealvarez9216]

Those first films were freaky. I love it.

[@jeremytheexplorer4689]

when i was a kid, i accidentaly make a stop motion video about a helicopter with only a nokia phone. i didnt event know what stop motion is back then. Since knowing about it, i love stop motions because the efford for making them. fascinating indeed

[@pamelar.espinoza1684]

Cerulia is one of my fav stop motion films

[@antitheticaldreamgirl]

i used to do stopmotion when i was like 11 with monster high dolls, it's one of the coolest art forms to me and i kind of want to get back into it, it's awesome

[@popogeejo]

You need to check on Jan Svankmajer. Basically the same idea of animating bugs but then he went a whole lot more surreal where this guy went for detail. Two really interesting takes on the same niche aspect of a niche form of animation.

[@jennifertullman-botzer8086]

Mr. Beetle is amazing! Glad to see it get some recognition 100+ years later.

[@thestrangejames]

The National Film Board of Canada has published some bizarre and fantastic stop motion shorts from a number of decades ago. My favourite is "The Sand Castle," (hzvqmoPu2H4) but "Neighbours" is also very good (K1q8f-I6YsI), and is a weird combination of stop motion and live action.

[@rafaelm.5148]

Some of my favorite stop motion animators: PES, Michel Gondry, Jan Švankmajer and one that made a big impression on me when I was a kid: Zbigniew Rybczyński with his Tango film!

[@AmberAmber]

Clash of the Titans!! Sad that dude died a few years back :(

[@marlonmoncrieffe0728]

I am big fan of Henry Selick's stop-motion animated films like 'James and the Giant Peach' and 'Coraline.' 'ParaNorman' and 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' are also big faves of mine.

[@damianmatras8568]

Fantastic Mr Fox

[@TheBlueClover2012]

Wow this is so interesting. Ill have to dig out his films on d internet n watch them. I love stop motion animation. Love those done by Laika Studio, Wes Anderson n Tim Burton.

[@MrKite_]

That was awesome 🌚❤️

[@timsullivan4566]

Simply CAN'T get over this: for his subject in the most labor-intensive and time-consuming process known to film-making, he chooses... INSECTS! - probably because their tiny size, as well as their having all those extra, brittle legs to move, can only make the task that much more mind-numbingly complicated. TOO funny!

[@DavidMichiels]

Thank you!!

[@elenam3798]

My type of videos! So interesting !!

[@kevinmcgrath5126]

Fantastic Planet is by far one of the strangest and most unique examples of stop motion I've seen. It's using the same technique as South Park, but the art style is so much more embellished.

[@tz8785]

A little later and two-dimensional (animated silhouettes) was Lotte Reiniger, starting in 1919, and producing the feature-length "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" in 1926.

[@kuusteist]

What's the music in the beginning?

[@darlenev9988]

I love this, thanks for the lesson

[@tianamatson]

That's so cool!!

[@bananasdoingthetwist]

You can't talk about stop motion without mentioning the legend that is Jan Švankmajer.

[@NonisLuck]

Fascinating 👍

[@schnieti]

Wow, he was a genius! I've never heard of him before, thank you!! So I guess my favorite must be the gdr production (originally) of the "Sandmännchen" (little sandman). I used to watch it everyday before I went to bed.

[@WeareIF]

So weirdly good

[@bryanstopmotion]

The art form which Lego KZbinrs has mastered

[@Henbot]

Ray Harryhausen kinda needs a mention in stop motion tbh. They likely weren't joking lul

[@kokulnath1368]

"Kubo and the Two Strings", "BOXTROLLS" are some nice STOP-motion Animation films. . . . Probably you(the reader) must watch them sometime.

[@marlonmoncrieffe0728]

Ah, yes! I love 'The Boxtrolls!' And have you seen 'ParaNorman?'

[@kokulnath1368]

@@marlonmoncrieffe0728 nope

[@rclark777]

Even before this film was a claymation short about a circus from the 1890s.

[@ShinigamiVivi]

I'm Lithuanian and I didn't know about this, that in Lithuania there was the first stop motion movie. I would like to see more video from country like Lithuania, Ukraine, Sardinia! I think give attention to little country are really nice.

[@-RIWIS-]

I guess "The Cameraman's Revenge" really is a story about... stag beetles

[@CandyBookGirlz]

We went from dancing stop motion insects to a 3D model of a spinning and singing cockroach... humans really are fundamentally the same huh

[@IckyVickyy96]

I'M SO EARLY IDK WHAT TO DO

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Just be normal...

[@MatthewStinar]

You could start by not polluting the comments with remarks about being early.

[@brnne]

Interesting to see how the beginning was kind of goth insectoid, and then we have Tim Burton, Voltaire, these creators using stop motion and making that kind of strange but beautiful visual

[@L-92761]

What I learned today, we have Wallace and Gromit thanks to a guy that collected bugs

[@jp975]

Wallace and gromits so good

[@RudyMemes]

Isn't it too early for insect voyeurism? LOL great video I loved it

[@habanerojones2169]

My favorite part of the video is me not doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

[@Kudoz05]

Thanks for the invention of stop motion, Pingu exist

[@insanetacocat7077]

I used to make them but my props always malfunction one way or another, which makes me think someone is trying their best to stop me.

[@aperson2730]

Interesting. Thank you. 🙂🖐️

[@BenWatton92]

Big fan of Australia’s harvie krumpet it’s a great shot.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Bored and sadistic people do amazing things