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Directed by Tobias Stretch
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Cabiria Entertainment 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 4 months ago

seconded, cool colors and I like the stop motion along with the organic twitch of the leaves etc..
Antonio Segura 4 months ago

Spectacular images, smooth video, greetings from Seville
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
ailatanotos 4 months ago

Lindo!! I like it.

Thanks for sharing it, I was specting the next one :D
Tobias Stretch 4 months ago

More madness on the way!

Stay tuned!

Gracias!

T
ailatanotos 4 months ago

de nada.
andreas martini 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
Adrian Cacciola 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
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
Karen Abad ♥s Dinosaurs. 4 months ago

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
2HeadedHorse 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
bartleby 4 months ago

fantastic! what more can I say!
Tobias Stretch 4 months ago

Fantastic is good enough for me!

A fantastic day!

T
Adam Docker 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
massta 4 months ago

That was great, nice choice of coloring and I think I saw some inferred in there.
andy probst 4 months ago

Strange but cool =)
7876 FILMS 4 months ago

Weird & wonderful. Had me sucked in until the end!
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
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
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.
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
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
Alexander Kovalev 4 months ago

it is amazing...
ANTHONY JACKSON 4 months ago

this was very cool thank you for sharing !
Jörg Brönnimann 4 months ago

your style is definitly special.
greetings jörg
Andy Dick 4 months ago

Impressive man...great work!
Antonio Segura 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
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
Adam Forgione 4 months ago

wow, amazing!
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
Awork // Mikołaj Pasiński 4 months ago

love it
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
Stephen Benavides 4 months ago

Amazing! Great work! It's very inspiring.
americanvirus 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
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 4 months ago

thanks tobias
Antonio Segura 4 months ago

thanks tobias
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?
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
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
Alvaro de la Herrán 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!
Martin Harrower 4 months ago

Fantastic stuff!
Annie 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 :)))))
antonio alucema 4 months ago

Wow! lovin the shot angles! great work
batsandswallows 4 months ago

Mythological !
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
karla artavia 4 months ago

I love the concept and the colors , muy bueno
Helena Bulaja 4 months ago

love the wings butterflies and colors...indeed.... : )...but arent you scared to make images for lucifermusique... ; )
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 :)
Charles Pieper 4 months ago

As always, your stuff is brilliant and fascinating, for sure for sure!

-CAP
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
Saturnas G. 4 months ago

I can't stop watching this.
Alex Conrado 4 months ago

Enhorabuena Tobias. Es un trabajo muy original.
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
Jesse Larson 3 months ago

Truly awesome. Speechless. Awesome.
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
Marina Valentina 2 months ago

oh my god, you did it again! AWESOME!!
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
BonaFide Hetaera 2 months ago

so strange but come-hither at the same time
Shawn Landersz 1 month ago

did i just get high? :D