Couple o' favs.

Great video The actual name is L'Animateur

Here is the Author's description on StopMoShorts:

Way back in June 2006, some of the Haiku Challenge keywords were Tree, Apple, and Fall. That led me to the Adam and Eve story. Reflecting on what it is to be a stop-motion animator today led me to the main character - you've got to be a fool to do it, but you also have this godlike power to create characters and worlds.

A travelling Fool takes his puppet stage to a desert planet. In this retelling of the myth, eating the apple is an essential step towards changing from puppet to human, and part of his plan from the beginning. The French title was chosen because in addition to the meanings of the English word it also refers to a Compere or Master of Ceremonies, which seemed to fit the role of travelling showman.

The film was rushed to make the deadline for Annecy, and has more technical faults that there is space to list, but was fun to do all the same. It was set to recorded music by Earthly Delights, who conduct medieval dances, rather like bush dancing or square dancing, in Canberra, Australia. John Garden composed it and plays the Hurdy Gurdy, which felt exactly right for the puppet stage.

The Stiltfrog puppets are latex build-up over wire, about 4 inches tall. The Fool has a cushion foam body, latex build-up hands, and a foam latex head. Adam and Eve are Sculpey over epoxy putty, then foam latex puppets. It was shot on a Nikon D70 which developed flicker, and was replaced by a D50 which flickered from the start, though not as much. Compositing was done in Mirage, with a couple of planet shots put together in Lightwave.

i was going to post some Morph a few days ago, after i saw that other stop-motion anim. morph ruled, i especially liked that big guy, was it gillespie

Other adaptions include:
--The New Gulliver (1935): Russian film by Aleksandr Ptushko about a Soviet schoolboy who dreams about ending up in Lilliput. Notable for its intricate puppetry and a decidedly strange twisting of Swift's tale in favor of Communist ideas. This was the first film to contain stop motion animation in nearly its entire running time.

--The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960): The first live action adaptation of Gulliver's Travels, but also incorporating the stop motion animation of Ray Harryhausen. It was directed by Jack Sher and starred Kerwin Mathews.

--The Adventures of Gulliver (1968): This animated series was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Young Gary Gulliver, voiced by Jerry Dexter, searches for his missing father in the land of Lilliput.

--Gulliver's Travels (1977): Live action/animated musical film directed by Peter R. Hunt and starring Richard Harris featuring the Lilliput voyage only.

--Gulliver's Travels (1979) : Animated cartoon made in Australia that was seen on Famous Classic Tales on CBS. It starred Ross Martin as Lemuel Gulliver and features two voyages.

--Gulliver's Travels (1992): Animated television series starring the voice of Terrence Scammell.

--Gulliver's Travels (1996): Live-action television mini-series starring Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen. In this version Dr. Gulliver has returned to his family from a long absence. The action shifts back and forth between flashbacks of his travels and the present where he is telling the story of his travel and has been committed to an asylum. It is notable for being one of the very few adaptations to feature all four voyages, and is considered the closest adaptation to the book, despite taking several liberties.

(from Wiki)

Voltaire <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire_%28musician%29>
Writer, Artist, Director, Musician (8 albums)

Voltaire was able to land his first directing job in 1988 with MTV. He created the stop-motion tour of the hellish Garden of Earthly Delights which won several awards, one of which was a Broadcast Design Award but he is most known for his Hieronymous Bosch-inspired station ID's for MTV. He has also made morbid station IDs for clients such as Cartoon Network, USA, and the Sci-Fi channel.

Besides his work with commercials, he has made short films and series such as Rakthavira and Chi-Chian. Before that Chi-Chian started out as a graphic novel series that included 6 issues (published by Sirius Entertainment) which eventually evolved into the stop-motion animation series.

Better known for "The Vampyre Lounge"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4KIY5DrIao

"Emile Cohl was one of the fery first to explore the possibilities of stop-motion animation through a world of fantasy, poetry and humor.
"The Hasher's Delirium - Le Rêve D'un Garçon De Café" illustrate the surealistic visions of a man under the influence of alcohol.(France)"

Found this great stop motion piece by Jelle Van Dun. He says, "This Stop Motion Animation takes you into another world. In this world no physical laws count. The only laws that count are the laws of the Animator.
I animated myself through my house and the city of Breda, the Netherlands. It took me 6 months to complete. That is mainly because of the weather. It wasn't always suitable to shoot my scenes.
The song I used is called Chinois by DJ Aphrodite and can be found on the record Aftershock."

the quickest way to PM's heart is through cool and original stop motion animation. ;-)

animated should not be in arts unless you are talking about obviously artistic ones.

cartoons, claymation, animated (stop-motion), anime --> toons
science & nature & animal documentaries --> (not cute animals) (obviously broader than jsut geek stuff)
commercials, ads, viral ads --> advert
hit in nuts, owned, shocking, etc --> afv/owned
shorts, documentary -> film
sports, motorcycle, cars, planes, skydivers -> action

Tags changed from "stop motion,animation,musical,zombies,death,love,wonderful,sweet,long tags" to "stop motion, animation, musical, zombies" by gold star member James Roe.

Is it really CGI? It looks like stop motion animation... still cool though.

This is an excerpt from a 1981 television special titled Walt Disney- One Man's Dream. Starts 1:50 into this excerpt from the original show. Includes first and only "official" stop motion animation of Micky Mouse.

Mike Jittlov is the creator of many inventive short films and one feature length movie using many forms of special effects animation, including stop-motion animation, rotoscoping, and pixilation. The Wizard of Speed and Time feature-length film, released to theaters in 1987 and to video in 1989 and based on his 1979 short film of the same name, is his best-known work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Jittlov

idea is good. but that's not stop-motion animation. that's a slide show.

i would vote down cept i'm no bronze star.

Nina Simone was a singer, songwriter and pianist. She generally is classified as a jazz musician, although she disliked that categorisation herself; and her work also has been described as covering the blues, rhythm and blues and soul. Her vocal style is characterized by passion, breathiness, and tremolo. This is a fantastic stop-motion animated performance of My Baby Just Cares For Me from Aardman studios.