Creating an animation out of something out of the ordinary is not really a new concept. There are hundreds of examples on Youtube of users creating, testing their animations out, some are more successful than others.
This video, The White Stripes - Fell in Love with a girl, create by Spike Jonze was the first video I came across that used stop-frame animation and LEGO whilst studying AS Media. What strikes me about this video is the sheer volume of work that must have gone into this to create it. Each frame must be meticulously constructed out of separate bits of LEGO. This is part of the appeal to creating a stop-frame animation to me, it will take a lot of work and dedication but the end results are very impressive.
Rymdreglage - 8-bit trip, is another video that uses LEGO to create a stop motion effect. This time it is a much cleaner effect than the White Stripes video, this may be because it is slightly newer and technology has advanced since the last one was create. The reason that LEGO is used is probably because its sharp edges somewhat resemble a pixel that can be associated with the jagged edges of retro games. It is also a highly manipulative medium, you can create a lot out of lego, from the largest objects to a tiny object LEGO covers it all. LEGO may well be the answer to helping me solve my issue on attaching the bottle tops to the wall.
This video by the California Marching Band is a semi-sucessful attempt at creating retro gaming characters out of objects, in this case humans. Although it is not a stop-frame animation it still has the 'wow' factor because of the scale and the amount of work that must have gone into synchronising and organising everybody to be in the right positions at the same time. It is this reason that it has had nearly a million views on Youtube, it also keeps you watching because you are wondering what or who they are going to evolve into next. The reason I think that retro games characters have been used is because they are so simple and so easily recognisable.
