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Stopmotion music video directed by Alan Poon. SPIN magazine, TOP 20 Videos of 2008
bowerbirds.org

Shot on Canon 40D with Dragon Stopmotion software.

Credits:
Director - Alan Poon
Cinematographer - Adam Makarenko
Editor - Mark Paiva

Lead Animator - Mike Hollenbeck
Animator - Anibal Davila
Animator - Sylvie Trouve
Sculptor - Christy Langer
Lead Fabricator - Diana Savage
Fabricator - Stacia Verigin
Ball & Socket Maker - Jordan Yaworski
Puppet Detailer - Angela Edmunds
Puppet Advisor - Cam Lizotte

Set Designer - Adam Makarenko
Set Construction - Joel Harrison-Off
Northern Locations - Uriel Lubuk

Visual Effects Lead - Yoga Kurniawan
VFX Team Manager and Rig Removal - Jym Campbell
Rig Removal - Arian Van Zyl, Aruna Karnik, Michael Staple

Compositing - Alan Poon, Yoga Kurniawan

Assistant Editor - Stephen Sora
Online Editor - Paul Binney
Colourist - Chuck Nosworthy

Special Thanks - Andrew Sneyd, Nicole Poon, Eddie Poon, Matt Whelan, Cal Brunker, Greg Williams, Michel Korchinsky, Karen Tameanko, Sarah Brooks (School Editing), Kris Wood (Tellavision), Kate McColeman (Notch), Gerry Legros (Notch), Craig Milne (Sim Video)

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  • vicent tido 2 years ago
    I love it!
    I think it's a very beautyfull way to make a clip. How many hours you dedicated to make it?

    salut!
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  • Fantastic work for this beautiful song...Wow, thank you!
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  • Scott Foley plus 2 years ago
    Really beautiful and creative composition. Well done.
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  • holycowboy plus 2 years ago
    Your stop motion is incredible on this and the Zeus vid.
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  • Felipe Sarandini 2 years ago
    Beautiful!!! It's a pleasure seen new videos in stop motion. Good idea and well executed!

    Congrats!!
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  • Genus Products pro 2 years ago
    Brilliant!
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  • Beautiful! I love the metaphors and especially the praying mantis scene. LOVE it!
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  • carolhonorio 2 years ago
    Wonderful work, great in all aspects.
    I hope you do not mind ... but I could not resist and put it on my blog
    Congratulations.
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  • Todd W. Fisk plus 2 years ago
    Fantastic. Original. Great! Thanks! :)
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  • mpared plus 2 years ago
    so cool posted at the curious brain
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  • OC Imageworks plus 2 years ago
    There is something wonderful about the human fingerprint that can't be erased from your work by the layers of technology. Beautiful.
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  • Lisa M 2 years ago
    outstanding! I have such admiration for the dedication required for stop motion, this is some of the best I've seen, and the mantis scene at the end, great! :)
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  • Matt White 2 years ago
    just gorgeous... beautiful song too
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  • Malcolm Hadley 2 years ago
    Quality
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  • Tony Clavelli 2 years ago
    you've blown me away twice in one week--amazing work. this is what I'm aspiring towards: thanks for the push to work harder!
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  • I'm glad this got featured!
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  • langustart plus 2 years ago
    cool
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  • One Night Music plus 2 years ago
    amazing!
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  • manugrancanaria 2 years ago
    muy buen video
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  • Nathan Malone 2 years ago
    Always loved this vid.
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  • benldt plus 2 years ago
    WOW! That was fantastic! Thanks for it!
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  • Frenky 2 years ago
    Great...really freat video...but is the singer Devendra Banhart?
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  • Mike Kobal plus 2 years ago
    incredible!
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  • Jose Miguel Zuniga 2 years ago
    Amazing!, great work, great photography and animation, congrats!!!
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  • Michael Muller 2 years ago
    This is so beautiful.
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  • Trak plus 2 years ago
    Awesome man, love those scenes
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  • Gaina plus 2 years ago
    Gorgeous video, wonderful song. :D
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  • Alan, well done. Great to see someone from Toronto doing it so well!
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  • Andrei Kuznetsov 2 years ago
    Very beautiful.
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  • Ian Hanson 2 years ago
    Awesome work; I loved the waterfall detail, that was great. How long does a video like this take and did you have any help?
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  • Mark Richer 2 years ago
    Very Cool and very original.
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  • JaysonV plus 2 years ago
    This video is AWESOME, but the background musics hurts my head. Surely such great video work was entitled to its own origanal soundtrack. The music hurt my head so bad I couldnt focas on enjoying the whole film.
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  • Elonzo 2 years ago
    Incredible video.... great song. It did not hurt my head.
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  • HEYNIEK plus 2 years ago
    Amazing
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  • Talbott Walker 2 years ago
    Awesome video, love the stop-motion, love the seemingly montage of cool visuals coming together into a nice story line, liked bringing the flower back and burning.
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  • Vince Weathermon plus 2 years ago
    I liked it a lot, I am seeing some kind of message about logging, men and their affect on the natural environment kind of deal. Have I got that right? Hopefully I'm close otherwise I'm hopelessly lost. It is an amazingly creative piece of work and would be interested in the what the creative process was to get it completed...
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  • nagash 2 years ago
    soooo nice!
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  • Kevin Irwin 2 years ago
    This is some of the best stop-motion I've ever seen. Excellent video; this obviously took a lot of hard work to make.
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  • belvet plus 2 years ago
    Great work!
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  • Shawn Read 2 years ago
    Wow, so impressive! I'm not sure whether or not to be inspired or discouraged, but I love what you've done with this piece.
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  • Tito Sacchi 2 years ago
    This is fantastic. Well done!!
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  • David Linacre 2 years ago
    Thanks - this is really good!!! I might check out this Dragon software too!

    Well done
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  • Noah Plener 2 years ago
    That's some beautiful stuff. I wish my life had a fraction of the passion that those mantis' have.
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  • Lai­s Alcantara 2 years ago
    Impressive! Congratulations!!! Laís
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  • Älis Masterherz 2 years ago
    is this the official video?
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  • dhaval adjodah 2 years ago
    amazing! hove the music too!
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  • Sharif El Neklawy 2 years ago
    so amazing, all of it. what were the settings on your final video? the quality is so clean and crisp for something 3mins long and under 1GB in size.
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  • josh lyon plus 2 years ago
    incredible work!

    added to best of animation/stop-motion/puppets channel:
    vimeo.com/channels/animationandpuppets
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  • Infinitozero 2 years ago
    just gorgeous!!
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  • Jonah Lee Walker plus 2 years ago
    Love it. Amazing stop motion!
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  • Charles Cho 1 year ago
    fantastic~
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  • TheCashCool 1 year ago
    hhhhhh ^_^ loved it sooo much
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  • matiss 1 year ago
    the grasshopper scene))

    youtube.com/watch?v=wbdO6z0VQh0
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  • Valeria Limbo 1 year ago
    beautiful, congratulations.
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  • Great result! I like it very much
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  • Dan MacKenzie 1 year ago
    again.... beautiful work!
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  • Amy N Mayo 1 year ago
    Awwwww is really nice!!! :)
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  • Fourchinnigan plus 1 year ago
    This is gorgeous.
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  • pifapastoral 1 year ago
    prodigious.
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  • eira 1 year ago
    My sister just showed me this. Amazing !

    -b
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  • Laur S. 1 year ago
    this murdered me! full throttle love.
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  • Megan Curtin 1 year ago
    I love this so much!

    I think I've watched it 15 times in the last 3 days.

    good job! you've made something of true beauty.
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  • David Naylor plus 1 year ago
    the praying mantises are the best thing I've ever seen
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  • ***Zoe*** 1 year ago
    Bravo! and Jayson V has no taste in music
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  • Adrien Raybaud 1 year ago
    Fantastic!

    I love the atmosphere! Keep watching and watching !

    Animation of animals is so great. I like the light too... the sets, etc...
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  • Eric Hurley 1 year ago
    that was fucking brilliant as fuck. French solely for emphasis
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  • joehollier plus 1 year ago
    i loved it!
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  • ktx 1 year ago
    I like how that black bird keeps jumping around :))
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  • Yagprod 1 year ago
    Beautiful and impressive.
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  • Benjamin Benjamin 1 year ago
    The song and the video deserve each other! So well done.
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  • UCISV-Pobladores 1 year ago
    That´s what im talking about, terrific job.
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  • Hotte Peterson 1 year ago
    fantastic......i love it
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  • Tomek Ślesicki 11 months ago
    Fantastic!
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  • Diego B. 9 months ago
    brilliant.
    besides, the music is wonderful as well.
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  • Matt Knight 6 months ago
    Really cool!
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  • Cipo 3 months ago
    Wooowwww!!
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  • Landscapes are just fantastic...
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  • Deborah Szajngarten staff 3 weeks ago
    Beautiful, poignant, sad. Fantastic stop motion. I loved it.
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