Great Work!!!

incredible, intricate, and inspirational work.

wonderful!

added to Best of Animation/Stop Motion/Puppets:
vimeo.com/channels/animationandpuppets

Sweet!

that was really cool!!!!! nice job!!

:D

Brilliant!

fantastic!great!

Really fun and innovative! The animation is really amazing. great work!

this was awesome!

wonderful! well done!

woww!!

c'est pas mal, très bonne idée en tout cas.

Wonderful Video, well done. Obviously very talented with great promise for the future. Does it run in the family!!

That is beautiful and I am sharing that with all my friends.

I've been watching your inspiring video with my Mum, Marjory - Aunt Mabel's daughter. Aunt Marjory sent her the link. We particularly enjoyed the way you reflected the music in the animation!!! It really brought it to life!
Very well done and good luck on the next project!!!!;D

Super graciosa!

fantabulous! on its way to next twitt thing... #musicmonday :)

My god.
How many hours did this masterpiece take?
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Ms. Stewart: Greetings from the eastern edge of the northern Great Plains in the U.S. This is _brilliant_! Congratulations.

Eleanor

This is awesome! Just amazing- everything about it is stunning! Hope you go a long long way....
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haha very clever!

love it!

Very nicely done. (Hey, but those notes are Haydn's, not Copland's.)

Saw this at the GSA end of term show. Was very impressed by the finished work and the resources you had. Excellent!

Fantastic! Incredibly clever animation and a great story.

A complete and utter pleasure. I'll never listen to Rodeo the same way again. My day was completed by such a joyful and electric interpretation. Thanks so much.

this is so cool!

really great! loving the flashes coming out of the revolvers in time with the music

nice

Great work! I really enjoyed this! Congratulations!!!!

This is very cool! I wonder if you know that this song is most well known in the USA for being in a beef commercial? It adds to the cowboy aspect of your project!

Brilliant. I loved that you used the score sheets to make it! Very creative, and you can tell you put tons of effort in. (And although i'm sure this is one of the parts to make I especially liked the tumbleweed haha)

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Absolutely bloomin' brilliant!!
Very inspiring :o)

inspiring and wonderful! Right now i'm doing a 3d popup book too ;)

Cool really good idea!

Very excellent work. Great job

This is wonderful! We made a video to Hoedown as well - also for educational purposes. Well, it has dancing.

youtube.com/watch?v=jqUE04zuC8c

Nice work, like it

Beautiful, Eleanor!

Amazing! I just signed up to Vimeo just so I could leave this comment! What a thrill to see this great music while paying homage to the beauty of a printed score.

I am a composer myself, film and concert music, and therefore I am a fan of Copland. Great, great job!

Amazing job!!! congrats!

We are watching this again four months after degree show because my 8-year-old son Ciaran remembered it and wanted to see it again. He says: 'Bang on!' I say: 'Superb!' Improves with age...

Very nice and creative stop motion animation...

However, FYI...
...A "hoedown" is not typically related to "cowboy-like" western part of the US's cultural entertainment... specially with regards to ranching (not too be confused with farming).

Hoedowns are more related to farming based Southcentral and Southeastern part of the US - specially the Appalachian areas of the US. Unfortunately, there are many urban and eastern interpretations of associating a 'hoedown" being anything western... and, as a result there were numerous older east coast originated musicals/movies that mistakenly use the term "hoedown" as related to anything south or west of the east or northeast coast - including the central high plains ranching areas.

In fact, the music you choose by Copland is titled
"Hoedown" ... which probably explains the title to your video. But... this is a classic early 40's misinterpretation of the use of term hoedown to be associated with cowboys. Regardless, the re-make of this Copland song must have been choosen by the beef industry's marketing because it just sounds good (...And, a sidenote is that Beef Industries version omits the typicall heavy fiddle sound of hoedown music and replaced it with Coplan's violin orchestra style of playing - thereby reducing it's more hoedown-like sound).

All that being said... you made a very enjoyable music and animation.

(Aaron Copland - Brooklyn born jewish composer who studied Music in Europe... admired Russian Composers and did travel to Mexico and Africa to study music... but, spent most of his life in New York).

Hi Joe
Thanks for the comment - that stuff about the misinterpretation of the term 'hoedown' is really interesting!
I'm glad you found the animation enjoyable.