Dot. The world's smallest stop-motion animation character….

A friend sent me a couple links the other day regarding this stop motion animation that she found online. I’m a huge fan of all types of animation, but there is something about stop-motion that makes it so incredible. Maybe it’s just me relating back to the old Christmas animations and it brings out my inner child. Either way it’s a fantastic form of animation. At first this particular film "Dot” seems like any other stop-motion film, until you find out that it is the world’s smallest stop-motion animation. Dot is just the size of a pencil tip! The film was made by a group of individuals who utilized various inventive methods when creating this film. These can be seen in a “making-of” film that I’ve linked to below. The film itself was made with a high resolution (12Mp I believe) modified Nokia phone camera! Anyhow, they outline all this in their making-of video.

Dot!!


Making OF Video:

Happy Birthday Jimmy....

Happy Birthday Jimmy.... As everyone knows, I do have a turtle. Not the most active of pets a child could get when younger but given I grew up in the age of ninja turtles it was quite cool. His birthday was mid march and just turned 23. Yup, Jimmy (that’s his name) is going to out live me at this rate. He got his normal birthday gift, some shrimp snacks and seemed very content that day. It’s useful that his birthday is around St. Patty’s day. This allows for all things green to be available for his big day. This year he decided to celebrate with Salty and Peppery!!!

Autoshow 2011….

This one is a bit late but I guess better late then never. I was able to attend the Toronto International Auto Show this year with some coworkers. I’m not one to take photos of cars (they just don’t interest me too much) however it’s a good place to go if you’re looking for a situation where you want to have well lit area with lots of objects to photography that won’t be moving! The show was less than stellar this year (to me anyhow), but it did prove to have some nice cars, most of which I’ll never be able to afford. It was smaller than past years when they also took up room in the Skydome (aka Rogers center – I’ll never be able to not call it Skydome), but there was still a lot of ground to cover. Here are some quick snaps:

More adventures with salty…

I’ve been away from updating my daily photo site and I apologize. I’ve still been snapping away. There have been quite a few winter storms here in Toronto since the last post, I’ve just been busy at work, you know..tax season and all.

Salty seems to have gotten into some trouble recently, most notably with some ninjas… good thing salty had a special friend help him out!!



It seems Salty wants to get into photography…literally.

Not to be left out, peppery found a friend.

Here comes Snowmageddon....

I thought i'd post this picture for those who will be snowblowing soon Homeowner clearing the snow from the driveway of his home in Unionville. ...and a few photos of the last one in 2008...