'Landscape Animation' Cleverly Combines Stop Motion and Skiing | PetaPixel

An experimental film by a skier and animator combines traditional footage of the extreme sport with stop motion to create a unique finished product. As discussed on Vimeo’s blog, accomplished skier, designer, filmmaker, and animator Sämi Ortlieb worked with a team to produce Maneuvers, what is described as “a playful ode to the do-it-yourself origins of skiing and it’s close relationship with nature.” The film combines traditional footage of skiing with increasingly impressive stop motion effects to create what Ortlieb calls “landscape animation.” “The original idea was to create something I would describe as ‘landscape animation.’ The idea is to bring an environment to life with stop motion animation, using the material provided by the environment,” he tells Vimeo. “I have a lot of creative outlets in my life: drawing, animation, skiing, skateboarding, making music — the list goes on. Animation and skiing have always been a big part of that. So it seemed quite obvious for me to connect the two.” He originally showed this technique in 2017 in a video called Birds Brigade as seen below. “When I first started animating, I was doing traditional 2D animation, frame by frame on paper,” Ortlieb continues. “After incorporating some of…
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