World's Largest Stop-Motion Animation

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By Adam Flaherty
Posted 2011/08/04 @ 4:00 am
Category Art & Design, Computers & Mobile, Photography & Video

Gulp, the world’s largest stop-motion animation, was shot using a crane-mounted array of three Nokia N8 smartphones on location at Pendine Beach in South Wales by Sumo Science at Aardman. Capturing the record breaking 11,000 square foot set was a piece of cake for the N8′s 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. Definitely check out the making of featurette below. The scale is truly impressive. [via HuffPost]

Bonus Making of:

In the Maker Shed

Cube 3D Printer

Telegraph Decoder Kit by Spikenzie Labs

Make: Getting Started with Soldering Kit

MAKE Rovera 4WD Arduino Robot Kit

3 Responses to World's Largest Stop-Motion Animation

Steven Sprague on August 4th, 2011 at 3:57 pm said:

Why 3 phones?

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- Adam Flaherty on August 4th, 2011 at 10:05 pm said:
  
  Probably as a safety. Just incase one breaks they have two more running. Think of the time wasted if you had to debug the camera just to get the shot. There’s a whole crew working on set and if you’re down for even a few minutes, that could translate to hours lost as the schedule gets backed up. They could also be shooting different camera angles or for 3D.
  
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- Adam Flaherty on August 4th, 2011 at 10:05 pm said:
  
  Probably as a safety. Just incase one breaks they have two more running. Think of the time wasted if you had to debug the camera just to get the shot. There’s a whole crew working on set and if you’re down for even a few minutes, that could translate to hours lost as the schedule gets backed up. They could also be shooting different camera angles or for 3D.
  
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