Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Stop Motion Post-It Note Arcade


I love really well made stop motion, and this might actually be one of the best I've seen in quite awhile.  YouTuber Michael Birken spent 11 months, meticulously recreating two of his favorite arcade games using Post-It notes.
This stop motion tribute to my 2 favorite old school arcade games is based on actual recorded game footage. The recordings were printed out, one frame at a time, and transferred by hand to various walls around my office floor using thousands of Post-It Notes. The process consumed weekends and holidays for the past 11 months. Changing background scenery was masked out and replaced with 1 consistent frame throughout the animation, producing an eerie stillness amid the moving images on the walls.
The end result is really mind blowing and the amount of frames involved is incredibly impressive.  It took me awhile just to get a screen cap without a motion blur.

You can take a look at the video embedded below after the break.

As always, stay nerdy my friends.



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