Coldplay, Strawberry Swing + Oran Lavie, Her Morning Elegance = Twofer!

Around the time leading up to the release of Coraline, we were a little obsessed with stop-motion animation.  We pored over Coraline clips on facebook, watched The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride, and tested out our own little experimentations. As enjoyable as most of today’s CGI films are and as amazingly entertaining as they can be, there’s a warm and romantic magic connected to real, hands-on animation projects that just can not be duplicated any other way.  Perhaps one reason it’s so enjoyable is that it is so graspable at any age.  Move, click.  Move a bit more, click.  Do that enough times and  you can make inanimate objects come to life.  If that’s not putting magic directly into a kids hands, then I don’t know how to get any closer.   Stop-motion captures and inspires imagination in a unique way, and that is why both these videos are already on the radar of The Boy and The Girl running around the AdamJoe studio, AND why they’re today’s Twofer.  (See, there was a point…)

More than each of these recent releases having stop-motion in common, we’re looking at live bodies laying down and moving around (or is it lying down…whatever).  Enjoy.

Coldplay, Strawberry Swing

Oran Lavie, Her Morning Elegance,

If you have a webcam around the house and want to test out making your own clutter come to life, there’s a couple free apps you and any of your youngin’s can play with.  We used FramebyFrame available here.