Stop Motion in Short Films

Stop motion is used a lot in short films, and I plan to use it briefly in mine when the box opens to reveal the hat inside.

 
The first example is as I used before DEADLINE stop motion (As seen in my last post) This used computer planning, but post-it notes to create as can be seen in the making of (which I have featured in this blog). This is a very effective and colouful stop motion which is far more surreal than other short films in this sub-section.





The next short film (also featured on my last post) is Vincent by Tim Burton.  In 1982 Wilhite gave Tim Burton $60,000 to produce an adaptation of a poem Burton had written titled Vincent. This was originally planned to be a children's short story book but was instead made into this compelling short film. Together with Disney animator Rick Heinrichs, stop motion animator Stephen Chiodo and cameraman Victor Abdalov, Burton worked on the project for two months and came up with the five minute short film. Shot in bleak  black and white , Vincent imagines himself in a series of situations inspired by the Vincent Price/Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven and his films which had a strong  effect on Burton as a child. Vincent Malloy, the main character in the film, has a strong resemblance to Tim Burton himself. The film was narrated by Burton's childhood idol Vincent Price, who is also the main inspiration (obviously) for Vincent Malloy in this poem.