Regular readers of this blog know of my obsession with stop-motion films. Olympus have just released a really beautiful stop-motion, using 60,000 pictures, 9,600 developed prints and 1,800 shot pictures - with no digital post-production.
It’s absolutely gorgeous, and a beautiful tale of a life well lived.
I do wonder if he walked out on his wife and kid to travel the world and ended up a lonely old man trying to fill his life with meaningless adrenalin though - what happened to them? They just seemed to disappear. Maybe that’s how life works?
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Too bad they didn’t attribute or acknowledge the original stop-motion movie (Mr. Wolf ‘n Pig) they based it on:
http://gizmodo.com/5311626/olympus-stop-motion-e+p1-ad-concept-is-clever-also-stolen
Nice find!
They’ve updated the info on the youtube vid to say:
“Some of the comments we have read here suggest that we should mention the creator of “A wolf loves pork”, Mr Takeuchi Taijin.
While we were looking for a way to realise a story describing “a journey through time” based on printed images, we were inspired by Mr Taijin’s brilliant work. For this reason we intentionally quoted his work in our little movie while showing full respect to his original idea. We didnt mention his name because we did not want to do so without his prior agreement.
However after considering some of the comments posted here we have decided to add credits to him and his work, which we obviously absolutely love.”
A bit too little too late - I didn’t realise how similar the concepts were!
[...] the video is not so original, as you can see here at Gizmodo. As well, the site where I found it, molt:n, noticed an interesting life transition in it. All of this to say that the video by itself is great, [...]
I can’t believe the douche left his wife and small kid without so much as saying goodbye!