4 Seconds a Day with 50 Tiny Dots



The world’s smallest stop motion character animation, certified by the Book of Guinness World Records. The animation was created by the folks behind Wallace and Gromit, Aardman Animation.



From Nokia’s Blog:

Shooting only four seconds of footage per day, the team worked painstakingly to produce the movie. Rather than create a model for the lead character which could be manipulated (a la Wallace and Gromit), the team instead created 50 versions of her. Each Dot model started life as a sketch on paper which was then turned into a 3D render before being printed on a 3D printer. The models were then attached to a metal rod before being painted – the artist involved in painting basically couldn’t speak or breath as he applied his brushstrokes to the 9mm high models of Dot.