This whimsical stop-motion ad for Googles rapidly-rising browser Chrome (which I use) was produced by PantoGraph, who have teamed up with Google in the past. There’s a nice little behind-the-scenes photo collection over on PantoGraph’s blog too. It’s titled Chrome Starts Fast.

Harry Dwyer, a director represented by London-based 2AM Films, helmed this new stop-motion music video for the folk duo Turin Brakes. The track is titled The Sea Change, and Dwyer does an excellent job of giving life to the rigid military characters, ala A Town Called Panic.

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100% Halal director Rogier van der Zwaag moonlights as a DJ for the group Nobody Beats The Drum (along with Jori Collignon and Sjam Sjamsoedin). So it should be no surprise that he makes his own music videos, like this one below, titled Grindin’. And below that, check out the making of segment, which they shot at their studio in Amsterdam.

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Greek artist Stelios Polychronakis recently wrote, directed and animated a new stop-motion short film titled The Village. The story follows a doctor who rushes to an emergency, only to find the village empty. The puppets were crafted by the brilliant team at Mackinnon & Saunders. Here’s a trailer:

What types of photos do cameras hang on their walls? Landscapes, apparently. Here’s new stop-motion spot out of South Korea for the new Japanese Sigma DP2 camera.

Mekanism, the creative shop with offices in SF and NYC, produced this new ad for DKNY. Tony Benna directed the stop-motion spot, which is titled The Candy Shop.

The crafty stop-motion animators at Japan’s PantoGraph has stitched together one of their robot cycles for your viewing enjoyment.