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This music video for the song “In Your Arms” by Kina Grannis is a stop-motion animation done with a background composed of jelly beans. It’s a crazy project that required 22 months, 1,357 hours, 30 people, and 288,000 jelly beans. They could have used CGI, of course, but each frame was carefully created by hand and photographed with a still camera. It’s even more mind-blowing given this fact: none of it was done with a green screen.

Forgive me, the music is garbage, but the jelly bean stop-motion is fantastic.

(Source: youtube.com)

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Simon’s Cat in ‘Double Trouble’ (by simonscat): SO so good.

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Disney Animation Studio on the amazing Amiga. Okay, so that? 1990. The Amiga was just an amazing computer for its time. A shame that it and others like it (BeOS for example) were killed by Windows PCs. Apple almost suffered the same fate, too, if you remember.

Thanks to John Nack at Adobe for the link.

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"It is the thought and circumstances behind the action that will make the action interesting. Example: A man walks up to a mailbox, drops in his letter and walks away. OR A man desperately in love with a girl far away carefully mails a letter in which he has poured his heart out."

Frank & Ollie’s Official Site: Notes From Ollie - Notes from Ollie Johnston, legendary Disney animator, that also apply to everything about making a good film.