Animation On A Belt of Bursting Balloons

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By Sean Michael Ragan
Posted 2011/05/06 @ 1:00 pm
Category Art & Design, Photography & Video

Very clever viral vid from director Dulcidio Caldeira for MTV Brazil. The balloons are mounted on a track. A cart bearing a camera and a sharp pin starts rolling at one end, filming and popping as it goes. Each balloon has a single frame of the animation hand-drawn on its surface. Looks like they may have stopped it a couple times to clear balloon bits from the lens. [via Dude Craft]

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10 Responses to Animation On A Belt of Bursting Balloons

Robbie VanVossen on May 6th, 2011 at 8:13 pm said:

Art looks like the work of Don Hertzfeldt

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- Tyler Werenskjold on May 7th, 2011 at 3:04 pm said:
  
  That’s exactly what i thought…
  
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cheeto on May 6th, 2011 at 8:17 pm said:

I wonder if they inflated the balloons before drawing on them. As fast as latex balloons deflate, the first ones would be flat by the time I got them all inked and tied on.

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- nana on May 9th, 2011 at 1:01 pm said:
  
  Not if they put powder in them, like it looks like they did. Those things last forever! You have to kill them to get them to deflate!
  
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Bosco P. Soultrane on May 6th, 2011 at 8:36 pm said:

Would this be considered Pop Art?

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- Sean Michael Ragan on May 13th, 2011 at 5:14 pm said:
  
  Boom! @facebook-1567500336:disqus Thanks for the laugh. =]
  
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Mike Suttles on May 6th, 2011 at 10:27 pm said:

We can use this idea to make Pop Porn!

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Steve Hoefer on May 7th, 2011 at 12:27 am said:

A fantastic idea that’s worth all the effort they put into it. (I’m sure Craigslist was full of “Balloon-tying intern needed” jobs.)
The first time I saw this I kept thinking “They need to put a fan under the camera to clear the fragments.” Putting a fan under the camera and pointing it up and away from the lens is a classic way of keeping debris and mist away from the lens. (As well as having an downward angled sheet of plexi in front of the lens to keep stuff from piling in front of it.)

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Adam Eyring on May 12th, 2011 at 12:45 pm said:

A very neat animation, but I hope they used biodegradable balloons. All those balloon pieces going into the trash makes me shudder.

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Vfx_Institute on November 25th, 2011 at 2:15 am said:

this is great

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