This is an old video I made in 2004.

The animated section is all stop-motion made with paper and magazine cutouts etc.

Music by Chien Bizarre - chienbizarre.co.uk

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  • CTD3 3 years ago
    W O W !
    That's like one of the best pieces I have seen on Vimeo.

    Hands down, Brilliant.
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  • FuzzyDave plus 3 years ago
    i had to watch this twice to truly enjoy it. The first viewing, all i could think about was how many hours it must've taken you to erase the background from between the bicycle spokes in every frame.

    great work and i appreciate the amount of time, effort and talent that went into making this.
  • Leo Bridle 3 years ago
    ummm I didn't have to do that - the character on the bike is a stop motion articulated 'puppet' made from digital photos in the animated sections. no bluescreen/rotoscoping on this one
  • cloois 3 years ago
    jeez... super impressive. dedication.
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  • Alex 3 years ago
    wow!!! that was awesome! Appreciate the time taken with this. Don't lost it. This is great!
    W00t!
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  • PEIKA plus 3 years ago
    wow!
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  • Bryan M. Ferguson plus 3 years ago
    wow!....just wow!

    very Michel Gondry!
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  • Tallulah 3 years ago
    Fantastic!
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  • noshoes 3 years ago
    Bright, happy and just super! Great work.
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  • zeebouz 3 years ago
    WoW , 4 !
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  • Cahu 3 years ago
    (breathless)
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  • vimeoman 3 years ago
    Boing! (sorry, I could not think of a better word to describe how great that clip was)
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  • eat a bug 3 years ago
    Whoa, you made this? i remember seeing this video a long time ago up on antville and thought it was pretty dope. I had downloaded it and still have it in my computer.

    Can you talk more about how you made it?
  • Leo Bridle 3 years ago
    Sure, it's stop motion done on 3 layers of perspex with a video camera mounted above looking down. So I had one layer for background, the middle and the front. I collected all the images from encyclopaedias and the internet, and then moved all the bits of paper frame by frame for about 6 weeks...
  • eat a bug 3 years ago
    Sheezus.

    So, 1st, you filmed background.

    Next middle, then foreground?

    Did you key it out in After effects or are all 3 layers seperated by pieces of glass?
  • Leo Bridle 3 years ago
    no, it's all in camera, all layers filmed at once. although if I made this now that I know after effects i might do it layer by layer. the shadows are nice though
  • eat a bug 3 years ago
    How did you seperate the layers?
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  • Philihp 3 years ago
    this rules
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  • DENZOU 3 years ago
    lovely and fantastic!
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  • Oli 3 years ago
    incredible
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  • break brain art 3 years ago
    thats good :)
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  • Sarah Kreczmer 3 years ago
    Amaazzingg
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  • Remyyy plus 3 years ago
    I've already seen on your website and it's like all your stuff, great, and a lot of other positives adjectives !
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  • Thommy Browne plus 3 years ago
    holy crap! this was fantabulous!
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  • poohlaga 3 years ago
    thank you for putting quality and creative work out on the interweb for us to enjoy and be inspired by!
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  • Rush Hour Tribe 3 years ago
    Great piece of work. It looks like a dream, it reminds us this movie "The science of Sleep" too.
    Well done!
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  • mobtown 3 years ago
    Great!
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  • Alex Kehr 3 years ago
    Very cool.
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  • Brooklyn Kitchen 3 years ago
    This is very nice. Whimsical animation and wonderful music.
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  • Gisela 3 years ago
    Pretty cool. Nice job!
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  • agriarte 3 years ago
    Great work!
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  • artpunk 3 years ago
    What the others said!! Seriously, it's great to see the fruits of such a time and labour - intensive creative endevour. Congratulations!
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  • alissa 3 years ago
    mario world/michel gondry/national geographic genius!
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  • Buck Flashroy 3 years ago
    Haha, outstanding. I love the ending. It's people like you that make Vimeo great. Keep up the good work.
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  • DrPiranha 3 years ago
    WOW!!! That was really good man! Very good work!!

    BRAVO!!!
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  • superlinn 3 years ago
    in norwegian we would say; shit det var sinnsykt fint, du er drit flink! :)
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  • mikedup 3 years ago
    This truly is a fantastic piece of work. The animation is amazing!
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  • This was very well done. A lot of work went into this.
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  • 401 3 years ago
    wow its so coooooooool~~~!!!
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  • binjam 3 years ago
    very very very good trip in your imagination!!!

    excellent!
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  • TheDeadlyDeaths 3 years ago
    wow. that was awesome! i loved the sky and sea sequences.
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  • bdoga 3 years ago
    That was flippin' sweet!
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  • Remi Noëll plus 3 years ago
    That's awesome, que viva Mellies!
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  • islebehere plus 3 years ago
    this is amazing!!
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  • loonachic plus 3 years ago
    great journey. :-)
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  • ed 3 years ago
    This is so great. It must have taken forever to plan and do.
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  • brianbrown 3 years ago
    superb.
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  • atlnav 3 years ago
    yeah - nothing more to be said - i cant even imagine doing that - nice work
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  • Jonathan Marcus 3 years ago
    Almost like you time warped to a different level on Super Mario or something. Very cool!
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  • cameron 3 years ago
    This is so good!

    I have a love hate relationship with it because I wish I made this first, but now I'd just be ripping you off.
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  • jasonlieder 3 years ago
    really cool.
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  • Alex Barker 3 years ago
    Most enjoyable....I at first didn't know what to think of it when I saw the picture of the thumbnail, but I felt as though I was smiling the entire way through it. Also, great music choice. Who is Chien Bizarre?
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  • Maeploy 3 years ago
    incredible!
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  • Radthanael 3 years ago
    That was BOSS.
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  • isaacwayton 3 years ago
    Amazing! That's dedication...
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  • iwubalias47 3 years ago
    wow ... that was great!!!
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  • cs188 3 years ago
    This is incredible. =D
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  • Jozef Garcia plus 3 years ago
    Brilliant!
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  • cellocellocello 3 years ago
    The underwater sequence was what got me. Totally sweet.
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  • naclh2o 3 years ago
    adorable!
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  • Lee 3 years ago
    Wow, how long did you work on this? It's great.
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  • zzz1492 3 years ago
    A wonderful trip!
    Thanks!
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  • AaronJPatterson 3 years ago
    That was so amazing. So much fun to watch, and the music adds the perfect mood for the whimsical journey and lovely animation.
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  • 4khz 3 years ago
    a-ha! :) great work.
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  • Gabito Guzman 2 years ago
    you officially rock, you rocker. great execution and attention to detail. kudos!
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  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    very cool.
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  • RL 2 years ago
    This is absolutely wonderful! I love the animation, extremely creative and energetic!
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  • nshack 2 years ago
    No doubt, a great piece that shows some masterful skill.
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  • mmmihaitza 2 years ago
    Great! I've been looking for this video for months. I'm glad i've finally found it!
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  • Mike Knish 2 years ago
    Word to everything listed above. Keep going.
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  • Soxiam staff 2 years ago
    Wow. How did I miss this? It's really wonderful and I hope to have a dream like this one day. Thanks for sharing.
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  • DGENETICS 2 years ago
    octopus
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  • Carleton Torpin plus 2 years ago
    Wow. The shear amount of paper-cutting-out that took is staggering. I'm sure you have nightmares of scissors to this day. ;) Great work!
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  • Ryan Beacher 2 years ago
    awesome
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  • YEAH (: wish i was that bike . amazing work, congrats !.. love the gondryish styles
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  • Jordan Beck 2 years ago
    Cool idea. Worked well.
  • Jordan Beck 2 years ago
    On a side note, you've inspired me to try something like this.
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  • lateniteriser plus 2 years ago
    I was also thinking Gondry
    Brilliant!
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  • Bryan Wuest 2 years ago
    a thousand I Likes.
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  • Jorgi 2 years ago
    very cool. I would like to know what software he used to make it.
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  • about Movies 2 years ago
    I love this!!!! You're so great!
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  • DEDFX 1 year ago
    wow
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  • godino 1 year ago
    Very very nice animation!
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  • Jeremy Dennis 1 year ago
    Love the shadows and three-dimensionality of it. I'm beginning to wonder if stop motion and accordions have some sort of natural affinity...
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  • MariaNYC plus 1 year ago
    No one said beautiful so let me.
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  • Nadi Zoetebier 9 months ago
    How creative! This inspires me so much, thank you! Great work!
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  • Michael Robinson plus 7 months ago
    great work!
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