In our latest playlist, we see food come to life with stop motion animation. Watermelons can frolic in the park! Pancakes can make themselves! A cupcake can fall in love with a squash! Watch these videos and some of our other favorite animated shorts in our playlist above or visit the playlist's page at
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Few things warm my heart quite as much as watching a flock of bug-eyed watermelons deliriously frolic and dance in a park to a happy tune.
These are the happiest watermelons in the history of all watermelons.
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It only takes one infected can of kidney beans to zombie-fy a whole kitchen. And then...
you.
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This spot for Australian cable channel TV1 by motion graphics studio sixty40 depicts a quintessential day at the beach with frolicking grape children, sunbathing pears, rambutan couples, and more. Watch the video after the jump....
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This fireworks display from stop-motion animation artist PES features Peeps, candy corn, Good & Plenty, and more. If only real fireworks caused candy to fall out of the sky. Watch the video after the jump....
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The Seed is a two-minute animated voyage that follows an apple seed from planting to tree to apple—then through the human body, through the sewer system, and back into the ground for planting. It was funded by Adobe to show off the range of CS4 applications. The video appears after the jump....
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The trailer for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was just released online, and it looks fantastic in the literal sense of the word. As Erin pointed out in July, the 30-page children's book is a bit thin to write an entire animated feature from, so the plot now has a scientist, Flint Lockwood, who instigates edible storms, turning water into food, in hopes of ending world hunger. [After the jump, the trailers and more screenshots.]...
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Take some classic videogame scenes, recreate them with stop motion animated sauerkraut, and you've got Videokrauting. Yeah. ...Wait, huh? No, that's it. Watch the video to see it in action, after the jump....
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What is the malted liquor? What gets you drunker quicker? What comes in bottles or in cans? Beer! It's Friday, and you know what that means: It's time party like a bunch of drunk Lego men (and one chicken). This stop-motion video features the appropriately titled song "The Beer Song" by The Arrogant Worms. It's probably not what George Bizet had in mind for his music, but it's quite catchy. Watch the video after the jump....
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What happens when a cupcake goes on a journey away from its world of candies and sweets—on a boat made of sugar cubes, naturally—and accidentally ends up an unknown land of naked fruits and vegetables? It learns some non-water soluble architectural tricks and falls in love with a squash. From animator and illustrator Kirsten Lepore comes Sweet Dreams, a 10-minute stop-motion animated film that captures a snippet of this adventurous cupcake's life. Don't miss the the great background music and the mostly food-based sets. Watch the video after the jump....
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