Toy soldier stop-motion animation

Chris Butcher works stop-motion magic with toy soldiers and flower buds. "Plot-oon"

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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noah django

hilarious!

also: it’s doing it again. vimeo no likey embeds on boingboing. mac OSx/firefox latest
- ocker3
  
  Works fine in Win7/FF
- Nick Hayday
  
  Vimeo embeds aren’t clever enough to serve up an HTML5 version unless you’re on a mobile device, install flash, or use Chrome
  - noah django
    
    yeah…. I’ve got flash. I was under the impression that was required to run vimeo and youtube videos at all, nevermind embeds. well, whatever. that ain’t it. i suppose next you’ll say that i need the latest version but this is the last one supported by my OS, so forget it.
    - Nick Hayday
      
      Next I’ll say don’t be an arse, I was trying to help you out
fergus1948

Jolly good show!
But shouldn’t we acknowledge the influence of Pes…?
http://www.eatpes.com/kaboom.html
- David Pescovitz
  
  We are huge fans of Pes and have posted those animations many times.
  - fergus1948
    
    Sorry David, when I said ‘we’ I really meant Chris Butcher.
    (That is not to detract from his fine animation though!)
    - Bender
      
      He may have been influenced by Pes, but I don’t think he has to mention him in the titles if that’s what you mean.
      - http://profile.yahoo.com/6YZJQE74EZJ3KIMK52RVJQ7LSQ Chris
        
        i completely agree…
smallteam

“Charlie don’t surf.”
- jeligula
  
  No hamburger money.
ocker3

Truly awesome
jeligula

That was the best thing I have seen all year. Thanks for sharing, David.
john bau

Its not Pes or Chris Butcher but the belgiums Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier who’s done the incredible series about Cowboy, Indian and Horse he’s been “influenced” by.
Theres even a full flim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l-Cp5EAg1E by the belgian greats….
- http://profile.yahoo.com/6YZJQE74EZJ3KIMK52RVJQ7LSQ Chris
  
  I hadn’t seen these but they’re really cool :) My influence for any animation i’ve made would be Jan Svankmajer. Chris
http://profile.yahoo.com/6YZJQE74EZJ3KIMK52RVJQ7LSQ Chris

Oh and thank you for the share too David :) Chris
Sparg

Love the flower explosions!