By now, I’m pretty sure you would have encountered that hilarious stop-motion music video to Circle Circle Dot Dot by Jamie Kennedy and Stu Stone. In case you haven’t, I’ve embedded it below for your watching and laughing pleasure. It’s truly a work of art. The music and lyrics belong to Jamie and Stu, of course, but the incredible Lego-powered music video was not. Nope, that was the work of some bloke named Nate Burr, “known online as Blunty3000.” Stop motion animation is seriously difficult work, as I’m sure you seen with some claymation work in the past. Blunty3000 tells us that he films at 15 frames per second, so for that three-minute music video, he had to capture something in the neighbourhood of 3000 frames. And that’s not even taking the post-production and editing stuff into account. After all, he’s got to plan this whole thing out, stitch all those frames together, and edit accordingly using some sort of video editing software.

Circle Circle Dot Dot

At the time of this post, the above music had been viewed 2,619,238 times, received 4,836 comments, and had been favorited 21,056 times. Needless to say, it’s pretty darn popular.

In case you’re wondering how he did it, I also found this video wherein Blunty3000 describes the steps required to do stop-motion animation:

Yeah, he’s a bit of a kook. But most creative geniuses are. For more of his work, check out Brickfilms.com. I recommend Cognizance, another Lego-powered stop motion music video, this time for a classic Coldplay song.