Not a student piece...I answered an RFB for Heinz on this site called Geniusrocket.com. So it was a little bit like a contest.

back off, Bear! She's mine!

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thanks! :)

i LOVE pes!

most of the lip and eye movements were shot stopmotion-style with the rest of the animation. A select few facial elements were added later in after effects (a compositing program). If you're interesting in playing around with stopmotion, then I'd recommend using istopmotion. It's relatively cheap and produces good results. The program is also useful for shooting traditional animation as well. If you're interested in that type of animation, basically all you need is a light table, paper, and a camera!