HIDARI (Pilot Film) – A Japanese stop-motion samurai film by Masashi Kawamura, using wooden carved puppets inspired by legendary sculptor Jingoro Hidari.
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Good god almighty. Somebody fund this project. That was awesome.
Gonna throw it in there, that was fucking awesome.
So many interesting choices with the camera. I’m going to hopefully find some more stuff this guy has done and lose myself for a bit.
Uhhh that was incredible
Definitely one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Damn.
Wow, 5 and 1/2 minutes well spent. Beautiful piece of art. I’d like to watch more
wow, that was cool…
If you like this, watch the show Thunderbolt Fantasy.
It’s a Taiwanese/Japanese co-production, and part of a long tradition of Taiwanese puppet animation, so it looks a *little* different, but it’s very much the same vibe.
Haven’t seen fight choreography this good since the RWBY trailers.
Loooove stop motion. Can’t imagine how much time went into this.
That was freaking spectacular
That was great!
That was so dope.
Everything about this is wonderful but what struck me the most is the beautiful use of limited animation. Some movements have only 3-4 frames of motion but with the right timing it gave those moments an extremely snappy feel. Masterful stuff.
Also I love the concept of the video as a whole, of integrating the medium of wooden sculptures as a key point of the fight choregraphy.
Super cool. Also the mechanical hand gave me Sekiro vibes.
Needs more FPS, super jerky, hard to watch
Wow that was incredible!! I couldn’t get enough of the up-close mechanical scenes
Damn it’s rare when any form of animation just grabs you with style like this. Epic work.
Follow it by watching their [making of video](https://youtu.be/VHO6rTyyG6M)
Holy crap that was awesome
Let’s see AI do THIS!
Daaamn. The movements on that first mechanical arm was insane.
The acting is a bit wooden…
Remember everyone! If you have something to stabilize your phone you can do your own stop motion at home very easily and something that can be done with kids.
Well that was fucking crazy.
FUCKIN FANTASTIC!
I got to do a brief interview with the guys behind this film and believe it or not, that’s 100% stop motion. They did thousands of shots of sawdust explosions over blank backgrounds and then superimposed them over the video of the models. Incredible, painstaking work that could much more easily be done with cg, but they’re dedicated to making the film entirely stop-motion.
That was unbelievable. I’d love to see more of this.
Timberpunk, the genre I never knew I wanted until now.
damn who woulda thought an anime styled stop motion samurai would slay this hard. did not expect such dynamic camera motion.