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Music video for Matthias Sturm-Blood And Thunder
Directed by Tobias Stretch
tobystretch.com

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  • Cabiria Entertainment plus 4 months ago
    Wow!! Love it! What a trip. love the colors and the motion. The art direction is also outstanding.
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    Hey Andre thanks for that! I wasn't sure about the colors. But I think it's good to change it up .

    Cheers,
    T
  • Axiom Crux plus 4 months ago
    seconded, cool colors and I like the stop motion along with the organic twitch of the leaves etc..
  • Antonio Segura plus 4 months ago
    Spectacular images, smooth video, greetings from Seville
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  • 599 Productions 4 months ago
    Now, that was a weird music video...but I liked it.
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    Weird is the way!

    Thanks a bunch!

    T
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  • ailatanotos plus 4 months ago
    Lindo!! I like it.

    Thanks for sharing it, I was specting the next one :D
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  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    More madness on the way!

    Stay tuned!

    Gracias!

    T
  • ailatanotos plus 4 months ago
    de nada.
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  • andreas martini plus 4 months ago
    loved it from the very first minute
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    That is good too, because I got to keep the ADD people like myself with me.

    Best,

    T
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  • Adrian Cacciola plus 4 months ago
    Fit to the perfection at the music !!! Love it, it's very poetic !!
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    Poetry is all we can aspire to!

    Right on!

    T
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  • Alastair Brown 4 months ago
    Oooooooohhhhh....yes....I think that is about the best word I can think of to describe it! Very Watchable.
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    Ooooooooooooohh......thanks......for the love!

    Party!
    T
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  • Oh my god. hahaha. Amazing Tobias
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    Hey Karen, I'm glad you saw the slapstick in there.

    Rock on!

    T
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  • 2HeadedHorse plus 4 months ago
    Great work. What did the original colors look like? I have a deep-rooted aesthetic problem with altered hue. I haven't sought therapy on this subject, but maybe I should : )
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    HAHA, ya I think I might have some kind of psychotic technicolor imagination that won't let go. I hope to get back to more earth tones again. One of my upcoming vids is gonna be real dark night time Tron stuff.

    Stay tuned!

    Much love,

    T
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  • bartleby plus 4 months ago
    fantastic! what more can I say!
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    Fantastic is good enough for me!

    A fantastic day!

    T
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  • Adam Docker plus 4 months ago
    Well done Tobias. What did you shoot it on? How long did it take?
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    I use a D80 and it took about 2 months to do the puppets, shooting and all. I'm gonna be doing some live action stuff soon to hopefully cut down my hours but keep the wow factor in tact.

    Thanks for the interest!

    T
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  • massta plus 4 months ago
    That was great, nice choice of coloring and I think I saw some inferred in there.
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  • andy probst plus 4 months ago
    Strange but cool =)
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  • 7876 FILMS plus 4 months ago
    Weird & wonderful. Had me sucked in until the end!
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  • Rumraket 4 months ago
    simply amazing craftsmanship and animation!!!
    and a beautiful story as well
    mind blowing!
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    Hey thanks guys, it's been a while since Illuminant, I'm just trying to live up to those standards.

    Best,
    T
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  • miz managed 4 months ago
    love those acid colors. reminds me of an LSD trip I had in the old days
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    haha, ya I haven't partaken in that kind of stuff in years but I guess I know what you mean. I feel like I'm tripping when I'm sober now so I guess it's better that way to get the work done.

    Party!
    T
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  • François Mathey 4 months ago
    Nice work, more colors than usual, acid, but not bad. It reminds me Soundgarden, I don't know why.
    Cheers.
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  • nico dum 4 months ago
    very trippy Tobias, congrats! (take me to your dealer ;-)
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    Haha my dealer is somewhere inside my brain I think.

    T
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  • andre 4 months ago
    Pure acid ! Congrats!
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    Folks love acid I guess. It would be hard to get to work everyday, though I'm sure some have tried it.

    T
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  • Alexander Kovalev 4 months ago
    it is amazing...
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  • ANTHONY JACKSON plus 4 months ago
    this was very cool thank you for sharing !
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  • Jörg Brönnimann 4 months ago
    your style is definitly special.
    greetings jörg
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  • Andy Dick 4 months ago
    Impressive man...great work!
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  • Antonio Segura plus 4 months ago
    Spectacular images, smooth video, greetings from Seville
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    Hello Antonio from Seville. Great to hear from folks from far away beautiful places that they appreciate what I do, it is very inspiring for me to hear your kind words!

    All the best,
    Tobias
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  • Angelo Szamszoryk 4 months ago
    Nice! Tell us how you did it. HDV, Stopmotion and AfterEffects?
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    I use a Nikon D80 and FCP and a lot of sweat and that's pretty much it. There's a few thousand pictures in it at 12 fps. I'm hoping to have the budgets to shoot 24 fps some day but for now this will do I'm gonna be doing live action stuff next with some crazy animatronics in order to break away from the monotony of the stop motion stuff.

    Thanks!

    T
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  • Adam Forgione plus 4 months ago
    wow, amazing!
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  • radio zamaneh 4 months ago
    Awesome and very, very creative!
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    Awesomely awesome for you to say that.
    Hopefully I can keep the awesome coming!

    Best,
    T
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  • love it
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  • Anthony Ferrara 4 months ago
    Awesome once again. coming to nyc ever? Would love to join forces and run amuck in the city.
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    Like King Kong!

    I'll be there some day!

    Rock,
    T
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  • Stephen Benavides plus 4 months ago
    Amazing! Great work! It's very inspiring.
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  • americanvirus plus 4 months ago
    I love it! I Love it!
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    Love is great and love is in the air!

    Love,

    Tobias
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  • Leo Bar PIX IN MOTION 4 months ago
    You've done it again!
    What a wonderful way to tell a story...
    And your imagination!

    Why all that greenish hue?
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    I've been trying for a crazy color scheme, some people don't like it and I can understand but I was trying to create a surreal world. I call psychotic technicolor. Maybe it will grow on you! Thanks for the kind words!

    Best,
    T
  • Antonio Segura plus 4 months ago
    thanks tobias
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  • Antonio Segura plus 4 months ago
    thanks tobias
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  • Aaron Warner 4 months ago
    Yes this is great. Your videos get my imagination rolling every time and I want to do something like this! So do you build all the characters yourself as well?
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  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    Ya, I had a friend help with a few puppets in the past and have another friend helping build some cool stuff on a really different new video I'm doing now but for the most part I've done everything from puppets to shooting in the past but I hope to change this soon, as I am realizing the advantage of help.

    Thanks a bunch Aaron,
    best,
    T
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  • asincro 4 months ago
    wow, me he quedado sin palabras, gracias por compartir este video y felicitaciones es un trabajo de muy alta calidad en todos los aspectos
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  • Alvaro de la Herrán plus 4 months ago
    Beautiful Matias! I love your work.
    Do you write the scripts before the shooting ? How important is the story for you?
    Thanks!
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  • Martin Harrower 4 months ago
    Fantastic stuff!
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  • Annie plus 4 months ago
    WOW!
    This is STUNNING work :)))
    I can see why it took you 2 months to complete :)
    GREAT STUFF mate!
    I LOVE it :))))))
    Thanks for the invite to view it :)))))
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  • antonio alucema 4 months ago
    Wow! lovin the shot angles! great work
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  • batsandswallows 4 months ago
    Mythological !
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  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    Ya it's tough to get the right angles when you are laying on the ground with bugs crawling up on you. But you gotta do what you gotta do!

    Best,
    T
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  • karla artavia 4 months ago
    I love the concept and the colors , muy bueno
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  • Helena Bulaja plus 4 months ago
    love the wings butterflies and colors...indeed.... : )...but arent you scared to make images for lucifermusique... ; )
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  • smartti1970 4 months ago
    I'm astound! Your pictures and the world you create have never been seen i feel. I think its a shame that as soon as someone does some creative dreamy atmospheres others feel its a world related to halucinogene drugs. Well ok dreams are halucinations.. and what about fairy tales..
    The music "artists" you've been working with are also fantastic and never heard before. very authentic creativity i find. I'm very admirativ also at the amount of work there is.. thanks for the inspirations and share..
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    Drugs are fun but art is funner!
  • smartti1970 4 months ago
    yeah except with art you pay before in time consuming efforts, and are rewarded after with fun pleasure and a sense of achievement.
    With drugs you pay before and after and you'r left with no achievement.
    With your art we can all fly clean just watching you for free :)
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  • Charles Pieper 4 months ago
    As always, your stuff is brilliant and fascinating, for sure for sure!

    -CAP
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  • Matt DL 4 months ago
    One of the most amazing and inspiring shorts I've seen in a while. In a league with the Brothers Quay. Keep it up.
  • Tobias Stretch 4 months ago
    Hey the Quays are great and they grew up near where I do my stuff. I hope to meet them before I die to say thanks for the inspiration. And Terry Gilliam and David Lynch too! Too many greats I'll never meet. Art rules!

    Best,
    T
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  • Saturnas G. 4 months ago
    I can't stop watching this.
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  • Alex Conrado 4 months ago
    Enhorabuena Tobias. Es un trabajo muy original.
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  • Simon Prager 3 months ago
    you did a wonderful job again!
    great camera work and nice flashy color-grading!
  • Tobias Stretch 3 months ago
    Hey thanks for that! It was a risky move with those colors and I still need to fix the exposures on some clips.
    Thanks for the kind words!
    T
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  • Jesse Larson 3 months ago
    Truly awesome. Speechless. Awesome.
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  • Tobias Stretch 3 months ago
    Hey Jesse! Truly awesome words man, thanks!
    I've got a new vid with stop motion people coming in a couple weeks!
    Stay tuned!

    T
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  • Marina Valentina 2 months ago
    oh my god, you did it again! AWESOME!!
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  • josh lyon 2 months ago
    Fantastic Work Mr Stretch! Thanks for letting me know about your new work also...

    added to Best of Animation/Stop Motion/Puppets:
    vimeo.com/channels/animationandpuppets
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  • BonaFide Hetaera 2 months ago
    so strange but come-hither at the same time
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  • Shawn Landersz 1 month ago
    did i just get high? :D
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