Feb 1 2010Time Consuming: Wicked Stop-Motion Video
This is a simple stop-motion movie made using a webcam and 6,561 little black-and-white printed cards. It's fairly awesome but nowhere near as awesome as jumping a pile of burning leaves on a BMX. Which I've done before.
Followers of the Touhou game franchise would recognize the source song and video "Bad Apple!!" by nomico as it maintained 7 solid weeks on top of the Nico Nico Douga weekly rankings.
I have no idea what that quote meant but I do know what it means to be the first person in your neighborhood to own a boat. It means I'm the f***ing captain of this street and everybody knows it. Now, raise anchor and set sail for the shallow end!
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Bad Apple: The 1-Bit Stop Motion Movie [gizmodo]
Thanks to Josh and Chris, who, STOP! -- Hammer Motion time. Now one of you shoot me.
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Reader Comments
1. FIRST - February 1, 2010 7:56 PM
YOUSUNKMYBATTLESHIP.
2. Juarez - February 1, 2010 8:08 PM
Holy.
GG
3. Michelle - February 1, 2010 8:14 PM
Wow!
4. Rena - February 1, 2010 8:19 PM
The quote meant that all they did was print out the snapshots of this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec0QuViLVbY&fmt=22
to make a stopmotion version of it. But it's still a cool video and song, for singing computer programs I mean.
5. J-man the Cobra - February 1, 2010 8:30 PM
Holy Smokes!
6. Oahu - February 1, 2010 8:32 PM
You can tell that its completely computer generated as the pictures jiggle back and forth horizontally with regular spacing, hardly at all vertically and next to zero rotation.
7. wes - February 1, 2010 8:54 PM
fuck this music
8. RocknRolla - February 1, 2010 8:59 PM
That's just a computer generated animation superimposed onto one piece of paper.
9. Tojo Reeves - February 1, 2010 9:30 PM
Who cares if it was made with a computer program? It's far better than 90 or more percent of us Geekologie readers can do.
10. Tojo Reeves - February 1, 2010 9:33 PM
I do agree that the music could have been better. But that is sot for us to decide.
11. Charmaine - February 1, 2010 10:19 PM
Still too cool f0r school
12. john - February 1, 2010 10:54 PM
If that was real what a waste of paper
13. Whispered_hearts - February 1, 2010 10:59 PM
@4 Her voice is not computer generated. Her name is nomico
lol. this is actually a song about depression
14. Jiakasuma - February 2, 2010 12:18 AM
Muy cool
15. madalfred - February 2, 2010 12:28 AM
Not true stop motion....but still good
16. shadowcowz - February 2, 2010 12:31 AM
OMG I LOVE TOUHOU!
Geekologie you are amazing-and have gained my respect at last!-aside from that one time you where with that dinosaur that we don't ever mention because we don't want others to know.
:D
17. Delindil - February 2, 2010 1:01 AM
Nice Boat!
18. Heather - February 2, 2010 1:54 AM
Music could've been better? No. Actually not. Because that is the actual music video for that song. It's not like the video maker chose the song. Here's the original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDHp10Hk-WU
19. Butte Force - February 2, 2010 2:08 AM
@20: @7 had the correct response here.
20. Suwako - February 2, 2010 2:56 AM
Nice boat? No, that's Kefir.
21. Krathar - February 2, 2010 4:38 AM
Finally, Touhou in Geekologie. I'm proud, with those two.
22. Don - February 2, 2010 9:34 AM
Marisa, Reimu, Touhou yaaaaya
23. LSDiesel - February 2, 2010 11:35 AM
This is better than Avatar.
24. blueZorro - February 2, 2010 12:14 PM
Someone need a serious amount of high fives. 6561, really?
25. suck it - February 4, 2010 1:06 PM
well i guess if you're not getting laid this is as good a pass time as any.... personally I prefer masturbation but hey, maybe I'm the odd one out...
26. Duvvar Design - February 9, 2010 10:40 AM
yes my frend download :)
this is thank you.. :)
27. lst - February 12, 2010 10:24 AM
No, this wasn't computer generated, it was entirely hand-made. Take a look at the making-of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXikYw3pU4g . No photoshop, no computer sumperimposed images, just pure awesomeness, lots of ink and patience! Touhou fandom is freaking amazing.
28. Desu - February 19, 2010 11:30 PM
@28 You're actually mistaken, someone just printed out screenshots of the original PV and created a stop-motion version of it. CNN made the same mistake and otakus flamed them for ages.
29. lst - February 20, 2010 8:08 PM
@29 Yeah, that's what I meant, I think I didn't express myself clearly. When I said "hand-made" I meant the frames of the original PV were actually printed and photographed, and the animation was really a stop-motion, and not computer generated, like some commenters said.