animation work that's difficult to match

August 10, 2021 8:45 AM

Hey, here's seven silent minutes of brief, clever stop-motion vignettes using wooden matches.
posted by cortex (21 comments total)

captivating!
posted by hydra77 at 8:52 AM on August 10, 2021

Illuminating!
posted by thisclickableme at 8:54 AM on August 10, 2021 [1 favorite]

Wow, that was extremely compelling/satisfying to watch. Thanks!
posted by aubilenon at 9:11 AM on August 10, 2021

Incredible creativity!
posted by darkstar at 9:24 AM on August 10, 2021

Now that I've watched that, the rest of my day is inevitably going to be boring and unmagical in comparison.
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:29 AM on August 10, 2021

That just kept going! It was like entering a dream state. When he pulled the match from his palm I thought it was going to take a turn for the nightmarish.
posted by ejs at 10:01 AM on August 10, 2021

WHAT?! That was astounding. It felt like the animator was playing with another couple dimensions.
posted by bonobothegreat at 10:12 AM on August 10, 2021

This is what it would be like if we ever encountered inter dimensional objects a la Roadside Picnic. Don’t touch the matches!
posted by q*ben at 11:04 AM on August 10, 2021 [2 favorites]

This is better (for me) with some music to go along with it
posted by StruggleBus at 12:31 PM on August 10, 2021 [1 favorite]

I watch roughly 95% of youtube videos at 2x speed. I slowed this down to .25 and it was *still* (maybe more!) amazing to watch.
posted by hydra77 at 12:46 PM on August 10, 2021 [3 favorites]

Cool.

Also this is youtube video that doesn't have sound. Wha? Is that allowed :) ?
posted by storybored at 1:43 PM on August 10, 2021 [3 favorites]

Amaaaazing
posted by starfishprime at 2:08 PM on August 10, 2021

It's like a masterclass in visual imagination—and I agree that it does fascinating things with dimensions. Wow.
posted by Orlop at 3:25 PM on August 10, 2021

what a cortex-ass post

(I really loved this)
posted by DoctorFedora at 3:42 PM on August 10, 2021 [1 favorite]

Eeeeee!

Reminds me of PES! Western Spaghetti and Fireworks were favorites.
posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 11:39 PM on August 10, 2021 [1 favorite]

Completely mesmerizing, thank you.
posted by Mizu at 11:52 PM on August 10, 2021

So delightful.
posted by double bubble at 2:10 AM on August 11, 2021

Some of these would be so gratifying to do in real life. They remind me of those videos of "oddly satisfying manufacturing processes" that pop up every so often.
posted by Johnny Assay at 6:05 AM on August 11, 2021 [1 favorite]

Like, if you gave me a table-top full of matches that would automatically point to where my finger touched, I'd lose an hour to it easily.
posted by Johnny Assay at 6:07 AM on August 11, 2021 [2 favorites]

Related: Géza M. Tóth’s 2020 stop-motion short “Matches”.
posted by otherthings_ at 6:43 AM on August 13, 2021 [1 favorite]

A lot of them are playing with correlations. A lot of human visual perception is bound up in correlations, like parallax is a correlation of foreground movement with background movement, old wireframe computer rendering is lines on the screen but we accept them as representing a 3D object because they move in ways a 3D object is supposed to move.

I feel like that's behind the feeling bonobothegreat describes as playing with extra dimensions. Like these things will move in ways similar to being connect when they are not, or transform in ways that would not literally happen in real life, but which correlate with other movement.
posted by RobotHero at 1:53 PM on August 15, 2021