BDM124, stop-motion Animation reviews, 27 June

PIOK

Alien spacecraft lands and meets a chicken.  Good movement work on the chicken.  I'm not sure what the story is, though.  So French.  The credits were really nice, though.  I'm sure they wouldn't be happy that that was what I liked best.

Farrow & Ball (new colours)

Oops.  This seems to be an ad for furniture.  Still, it is stop motion and I liked how the chair was grey, then the light turned on and the wall and the chair turned yellow.  And things were spinning around, which seems to be the favourite thing for stop motion people to do with round things.

kindle ad

This is a good example  of stop motion, short story and length.  Our stop motion shorts will only be about one and a half minutes.  They got a lot done in their 30 seconds.  I liked how this made this one of the floor with the camera pointing down.  The objects and people slid around on the floor and the backdrop was a piece of paper that was torn up to reveal more backdrops.

Madame Tutli Putli

This is a Canadian film by Clyde Henry Productions and it doesn't appear to be a stop motion, at first, when the camera follows a long trail of possessions and bags to Madame, waiting at the tracks for the train to arrive.  Then Madame begins to move. Really good character design, movement, and quietly absurd moments (her luggage fills the whole compartment and the other passengers are forced to perch on the stacks near the ceiling while they play chess).

Sebastian's Voodoo

A 3D short about voodoo dolls attempting to escape from their tormentor. Interesting movement from thedolls and excellent texture.  There was a very interesting shot where the camera follows the voodoo man's fingers holding the pin towards the doll and then go through the circle created by his thumb and finger to the face of the doll.