Hey thanks for that Mathey!
Does the video play smoothly for you, my connection seems to freeze up. Trying to get better at encoding these things.

Thanks again!
T

Cool thanks, not sure what I think of the quality as I can't seem to get my vids to look as high resolution as other folks even though I follow all the advice and tutorials available but I suppose this will do!

Rock on!
T

Hi Tobias,
Cool stuff fella! I just posted a new reel myself. :)

Thanks for "spamming" me by email man! I remember your clip for the Radiohead Aniboom competition. Your work is incredible, this is some of the best stop motion, puppet creations, and surrealistic stuff I've ever seen. And yeah, the video plays fine!

Ha, I guess I should learn to spam more seeing as how excited folks get and how much that rules!
Thanks for the support!
Much love!
T

Whoa you're on vimeo..i missed that. But I'm so happy your stuff is unreal!. <3

i LOVED this. Wow! (and kind of creepy... which is always good)

Ubelievably good.

Your work is tremendous. Innovative & Entertaining.

genius
you truly are!

so sic
love

this is sick, i couldnt stop smiling while watching

hi tobi,

i love your scary surreal characters and your outdoor stop-motion-style.

it is realy amazing.

greetz
simon

Wow, out of this world!
I really like this.
I hope you are doing this as a profession!
It would be a shame to see you weren't be able to do this full-time. :)

Great visuals. Really good choice of music too, it correlated well.

creepy stuff. really well done! where do u live? i'd like to work together

wild stuff, I think I like your green men best of all, though the overall sense of weird is probably most memorable
x

Holy crap! That was bizarrely mezmersing. I couldn't take my eyes away from it. What an amazing job you did. Incredible work.

Mixes really well with Discipline from NIN. Great Work!

wow very cool. i really dig your style!

If this doesn't make it to the HD channel, I don't know it anymore. The most intense piece of art I've seen yet on vimeo. Deep respect for this!

Excellent works!

I thought my showreel was dark :-)

hehe

I like it

nice one

This is fucking awesome man!!! Hopefully we can collaborate somehow, someday.

I love it Tobias! Thank you for adding me also, this work is so wonderful!

great work!!!!

Hey man just started watching your reel after you added me, and it quickly dawned on me... didn't you make one of the Radiohead Music Videos on Aniboom?

What an experience! Your work is mindblowing. This showreel is so good it could work as a short film per se ;-) Love the epicness, the darkness, the everything-ness about it. Great photography too and perfect music choice.

good heavens man, this is mind blowing. your hard work (and it looks like a LOT of work!) really paid off. you are very inspiring to me. keep it up!

Totally weird man I like it

Wow, this is really amazing!

good stuff, really interesting technique and its a different take on stop motion that i havent seen before..

:)

beutiful! I am watching it for the third time in a row :) great work! I love the music too. Please, whats the name of the composition?

amazing piece of work!

I can imagine how many days, months, years went into creating these images. I loved it and want to see more. Another Wizard of Oz indeed! I would pay to see that gladly.

Superior work my friend!

You are my new hero~! I will be drawing inspiration from your work.

majestic work !!!!!!!!

congratulations

Fucking crazy !!!

This is quite a unique vision you have. Never seen anything quite like it. The whole atmosphere takes me vary far away. Thanks.

Wow, beautiful videos!

Ei Tobias, great work!

Absolutely brilliant and amazing!! I love the feelings that come forth when watching this! Keep it up!

outstanding work! The music gives a great contribution to this but still it is brilliant stuff!
The scene at 4:48 is the best thing I've seen in my life in a while.

Your work is beautiful!

oh my... what a unique creative universe.

love your work , keep on working!!

let me tell you something, Tobias: if I were you, I would not allow people to download the source video...

Yo man, I'm so fully inspired. Thanks!

I have a feeling this is going to appear in my dreams tonight.
I'm in awe!

For those who may be interested in the music by Richard Einhorn that Tobias Stretch used in this amazing video, these are the lyrics in latin and english from the original libretto:

‘VOICES OF LIGHT’
An Opera/ Oratorio Inspired by Carl Dreyer's Film
The Passion of Joan of Arc
by
Richard Einhorn
richardeinhorn.com


TORTURE

Glorioses playes...

Et desiderabam videre vel saltem illud
parum de carne Christi quod portaverant
clavi in ligno.

Glorioses playes...

...ostendit cor suum perforatum quasi ad
modum portulae unius parvae laternae ...
quod ex ipso corde exiverunt radii solares.
Imo solaribus radiis clariores...

Glorioses playes...

...«non est aequum, velle solum de melle
meo gustare, et non de felle: si perfecte vis
mecum uniri, mente intenta recogita
illusiones, opprobria, flagella, mortem, et
tormenta, quae pro te sustinui.»

Glorioses playes...



ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Glorious wounds...

And I longed to see at least that little bit of
Christ's flesh that the nails had fixed to the
wood.

Glorious wounds...

He showed [her] his heart, perforated like
the openings in a small lantern...From his
very heart issued forth rays of the sun --no
--- brighter than the sun's rays...

Glorious wounds...

..."It is not fair to wish to taste only of my
honey, and not the gall. If you wish to be
perfectly united with me, contemplate
deeply the mockery, insults, whippings,
death and torments that I endured for
you."

Glorious wounds...

---

I wish I had your skills. Congratulations.

Holy fuck, man, you just blew me away. So that's where you are when when you go where you've been. Completely boggling, monstrously creative, and twice as crazy as people say I am. Thanks for the invite and the treat for the sockets. Still haven't recovered. I'm thinking major studio credit sequence. Keep it up.

the word 'mindf**k' springs immediately to mind...but this is a very good thing! some of the most amazing stop-motion work I have ever seen, you have the most incredible dedication and a very mysterious and intriguing vision...I was completely mesmerized by this :)))

this is amazing

Tobias, brilliant work!
TX
Fred

pure inspiration, I love the personalities, reminds me of Labyrinth....The photography is so organic.

Tobias, thanks for sharing your work. Outstanding on how you did the stop motion and matched it to the music. The combination of the two makes for a very moving piece I definitely look forward to seeing more of your work as you are very creative.

Regards, Ken

Incredible creatures! Great works!

Love love your work. thanks for adding me .
best
Bell

Fantastic work! A digital puppet animator aka GURU!

Superb! What on earth is going on inside your head? Thank you for adding me, Can't wait for more!

Awesome style and very, very creative!

wow...
killer...
yeah

P e r f e c t !