Stop Motion!

We've just finished week one of the music video for Jesse and Joy's song, "Chocolate." It's a slow going process with lots and lots of still photos of cookies. But we've been making some really cool looking footage. Here is a sample:



That is a boat made of cookies with waves made of clay rubbed in olive oil. I pre-animated a reference video to overlay in Dragon Stop Motion for these shots. It looked like this:



And here are a couple of pictures of me and fellow animator, Nate Miller, hard at work making it happen:





We've got 2+ more weeks of this. Lots more to come!