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Insanely labor-intensive Gangnam Style flipbook animation video

Xeni Jardin at 3:37 pm Tue, Jan 29, 2013

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An incredibly labor-intensive animated flipbook version of PSY's "Gangnam Style." Such a bummer that Etoilec1, the talented creator of this stunning video, was sound-blocked by YouTube's automated IP enforcement police. Etoilec1's original video is here (and below), in higher rez, but it's stripped of sound. Subscribe to his channel or follow him on Facebook, for more flipbook fun. Above, a lower-rez copycat upload on Vimeo. (Thanks, Joe Sabia!)

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Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • nixiebunny

    Wow. Just wow. 

    • Mister44

       My thoughts exactly.

  • Donald Petersen

    My thumb’s sympathetically cramping up.

  • Erik

    Pretty cool! It’d be another massive undertaking but he should really consider photographing each frame and assembling it into an animated video. I doubt any of the charm would be lost and it’d allow his talent to really shine through. Nice find, Xeni!

    • nixiebunny

      Part of the Just Wow is the fact that he displayed it in perfect sync by flipping it with his thumb.

  • spacedoggy

    pffft. Gangnam Style is soooo 2012. the artist should have drawn faster to have been in time for the fad.

    • oasisob1

      Technically this was the first Gangnam style remix. It just took the most time to accomplish.

  • tw1515tw

    Reminds me of the Fast Show just a tiny amount
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YlEpI00ouU

  • http://www.kmoser.com kmoser

    Wow. Etoilec1 wins the Intarwebz.

  • Frostelf

    wow

  • Bill McGonigle

    It’s always awe-inspiring to see humans who have large brain areas that are so much better developed than my own.  The human motion on this is particularly impressive.

    I don’t think this is, but another fun project would be to get some flipbooks and ‘greenscreen’ them with a known pattern and then use a computer to process an existing video (linedrawing filters, etc.) and do the mapping onto the pages.

    • Donald Petersen

      Yeesh.  Though such a project would have its virtues, all I can imagine are its vices: a whole new generation of this.