The Smallest Stop-Motion Animation Ever

From the makers of Wallace and Gromit comes the smallest stop-motion animation ever. The lilliputian main character, aptly named Dot, stands a mere 0.35-inch-tall. According to Popular Science, the animators “used a 3D printer to make 50 different versions of Dot, because she is too small to manipulate or bend like they would other stop-motion animation characters.” Then each print-up was hand-painted by artists looking through a microscope. Once the set and characters were ready to go, the directors attached a CellScope (a cellphone camera with a 50x magnification microscope) to a Nokia N8 and let the cameras roll. You can watch the final cut above.

via Popular Science


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  1. Chawwa Wijnberg says . . . | September 21, 2010 / 1:52 pm

    I loved your ‘dot’a wonderfull little film thank you.

  2. daniella says . . . | October 11, 2010 / 1:02 pm

    dot was a cute character in this story. Dot shows that she is scared because everything behind her was falling apart. From my opinion i think she was dreaming. She starts of asleep then starts running, she comes to be relived for just a little while then to fighting her fears. She comes to an and to fighting what ever that was after her to sowing it down to a blanket to sleep.

  3. Chris says . . . | October 11, 2010 / 1:19 pm

    dot shows her emotion levels expand from sleepy and happy to plain scared. Dot is running from a giant roll of cloth that seems to be after her. She jumps on a bee and finds an easy escaped but then gets knocked off after a storm hits her. she runs a little more after she believes she can defeat her fear and takes it head on. she finally defeats the cloth and find her self back to sleep.

  4. Ramasubramaniyan says . . . | January 4, 2011 / 6:54 pm

    Nice video and also the girl “dot” acted well and she faced the all kinds of problem in her life at the end she solved with two swords……………

  5. Josh says . . . | August 18, 2011 / 11:36 am

    Haha, that was absolutely incredible. There needs to be more of those made. Anyone know of others out there?

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