stop motion
Animating Still Photos with Stop Motion Using Your Smartphone
Oct 9, 2025
Darlene Lleno
Stop motion creates magic from ordinary photos by bringing static images to life through carefully plann ed sequences using your smartphone. Your phone provides everything needed to start this creative journey without expensive equipment or complex software.
5 tips for shooting incredible stop-motion videos
Aug 27, 2024
Jennifer Arce
Stop-motion animation is an incredible way to bring inanimate, static objects to life. It requires a lot of patience, attention to detail, and a slightly…
This music video took a year to create with video animation and rotoscoping
Jun 26, 2022
Alex Baker
There are so many different ways to use photography, and the barriers to realising your creativity are possibly lower than ever. We have a device…
Watch this stop motion film made out of over 600 light-painted still images
Feb 23, 2022
Alex Baker
There’s light painting, and then there’s this light-painted stop motion film produced by Photographer Darren Pearson. The film is a light-painted Western called ‘Fiat Lux’…
Artist recreates iconic music videos and movie scenes with Barbie dolls in stop-motion
Aug 6, 2020
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
I’ve said this a hundred times, but I simply love stop-motion videos. And if they can make me smile, I love them even more. Artist…
Teen brothers spent 8 years recreating full “Toy Story 3” with toys and stop motion
Feb 10, 2020
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
The Toy Story movies are favorites for so many people, but Morgan and Mason McGrew perhaps like it a bit more than you or me….
This music video was made without VFX, using 2,250 printed photos
Nov 8, 2018
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
I love creative music videos and stop-motion movies, and we’ve featured quite a lot of both here on DIYP. Still, it looks like directors always…
This cowgirl shootout stop-motion was composed of 300 light painted, long exposure shots
Oct 31, 2018
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Light painting artist Darren Pearson is known for combining light painting and stop motion animation. In his latest video, he has again brought these two…
Comedian creates an epic stop motion video that makes him dance without moving
Jun 5, 2018
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Comedian Ryan Higa says he’s not very good at dancing. So he found a solution how to dance without moving, and the solution is stop…
This woman took a selfie every day from age 14 to 22 to make an 8 year timelapse
May 3, 2018
John Aldred
Very long-term timelapse projects such as this have started popping up more and more lately. Given the time when such technology became available that we…