In these days of digital revolution where you turn short films on mobile phones and entire movies based special effects, animations done manually frame by frame (stop motion) make a splash on the Internet. Whether movie scenes recreated with Lego pieces or the story of two baby teeth told through a series of photos, these are projects analog, sometimes childlike simplicity, even if their implementation so much work.
"People see and appreciate all the manual work is behind each work. This makes them want to return to your site to be surprised again. "Thus qu'Inhae Lee explains the success of such blogs. His, My Milk Toof (mymilktoof. blogspot. Com), recounts the misadventures of two teeth, Ickle and larded, made with modeling clay and meticulously painted.
More than 12,000 people attend this saga, where each episode consists of a series of photographs with brief captions. Simple but effective. So much so that after only one year of existence the blog has spawned a book, The Little Teeth - The Adventures of Ickle and larded, forthcoming in March [In Print Ink Café Salé].
The fame of these teeth mischievous continues to grow. They even have their merchandise: books and postcards, just sold, were already exhausted. Inha Lee says she never expected to live for this project, it had started without expecting anything after being fired from the video game company where she worked as a graphic designer.
This young California artist takes two or three weeks to develop each story: it shapes the characters with their different expressions, sews their Minivet, manufactures or buys their minimeubles Internet and then adapt them. She regrets that the crafts are being lost and ensures that users attach value.
Alex Eylar agrees. His story is very similar to Inha Lee. This film student of 22 years, California also plays with Lego since childhood. A few months ago, he had the idea to recreate famous scenes from movies with his favorite bricks and put them online on the sharing site Flickr (flickr.
com / photos / hoyvinmayvin): James Bond, The Shining Harry Potter, Clockwork Orange, ... Inception "Inception The scene is one that works best but also one that asked me the most work. I had to build all the hotel lobby, rotate and duplicate exactly the angles and lighting in the original scene, "says Alex Eylar email.
He did not expect to "have as much public". The "display screen" version 2.0 of Word-of-mouth has earned him thousands of fans. So much so that last December, The New York Timeslui devoted a quarter page in the Style supplement. Few centimeters of paper for which any artist or artisan, digital or analog, is prepared to kill.
Eylar as stressed, "if these projects walk, it's also because they involve the childhood nostalgia of a generation", that of a time when toys were not virtual. 
"People see and appreciate all the manual work is behind each work. This makes them want to return to your site to be surprised again. "Thus qu'Inhae Lee explains the success of such blogs. His, My Milk Toof (mymilktoof. blogspot. Com), recounts the misadventures of two teeth, Ickle and larded, made with modeling clay and meticulously painted.
More than 12,000 people attend this saga, where each episode consists of a series of photographs with brief captions. Simple but effective. So much so that after only one year of existence the blog has spawned a book, The Little Teeth - The Adventures of Ickle and larded, forthcoming in March [In Print Ink Café Salé].
The fame of these teeth mischievous continues to grow. They even have their merchandise: books and postcards, just sold, were already exhausted. Inha Lee says she never expected to live for this project, it had started without expecting anything after being fired from the video game company where she worked as a graphic designer.
This young California artist takes two or three weeks to develop each story: it shapes the characters with their different expressions, sews their Minivet, manufactures or buys their minimeubles Internet and then adapt them. She regrets that the crafts are being lost and ensures that users attach value.
Alex Eylar agrees. His story is very similar to Inha Lee. This film student of 22 years, California also plays with Lego since childhood. A few months ago, he had the idea to recreate famous scenes from movies with his favorite bricks and put them online on the sharing site Flickr (flickr.
com / photos / hoyvinmayvin): James Bond, The Shining Harry Potter, Clockwork Orange, ... Inception "Inception The scene is one that works best but also one that asked me the most work. I had to build all the hotel lobby, rotate and duplicate exactly the angles and lighting in the original scene, "says Alex Eylar email.
He did not expect to "have as much public". The "display screen" version 2.0 of Word-of-mouth has earned him thousands of fans. So much so that last December, The New York Timeslui devoted a quarter page in the Style supplement. Few centimeters of paper for which any artist or artisan, digital or analog, is prepared to kill.
Eylar as stressed, "if these projects walk, it's also because they involve the childhood nostalgia of a generation", that of a time when toys were not virtual.
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