Stop Motion Sand Sculpture

[MysteryMan99100]

neat

[PeneloPhoto]

I love that you create Earth shapes (I have no idea what else to call them). I pictured the Earth's canyons and rock formations forming as I watched. Really cool.

[Jassmine111]

Were u coming up with this as u went, or did u get it from somewhere?

[junglemap]

I just made it up as I went... I have other time-lapse videos that were planned out.

[moonshadow112358]

Andy?

[Isantasusi]

You seem to have a Freudian fixation on excrement. You should talk to somebody.

[willpill45]

28 people hate Miami beach

[aLivingCartoon]

Beautiful work!!!

[BizarreFoodie]

This is truly spectacular. I'm very glad that you dedicated so much time and effort in making this video, the end result is really wonderful. I like your choice of music also. It has that sort of "trance-y, mind-expanding" feel that really ties together the time-lapse/stop-motion and the whole "zen feeling" of the abstract sand-art.

[ri4ardsons]

What tools you used to build these sand sculptures?

[junglemap]

Usually no tools, but sometimes I use a shovel if I want move a large amount of sand around the piece. Remember that all of this is a "relief" sculpture... I don't add anything, I just take away what I don't want.

[egyptianstrider2000]

I see nothing but pops !

[spottedbelly110]

how many pictures did this take?!

[junglemap]

For time-lapse, shooting a frame every 5 seconds, it takes 2.5 hours to create 1 minute of video. For stop motion, it takes 6-7 hours for each minute of video.

So, it will always be 1800 photographs per minute regardless of whether it's stop motion or time-lapse unless you play with the timing in Final Cut which I did in a few times to stretch out scenes where I didn't have enough different photos to work with.

[poolsonice2]

Those suck. Jk there so awesome

[UsedTeaBag96]

9:28

"honey go get me one of the rocks over there"

*kid picks up rock and falls apart*

"MOOOOMMM"

"whats wrong honey?"

"mom i have super powers"

[brockjohnson11]

Imagine if u weren't wearing sunscreen when user did this!!

[NeonBoneyard]

i wish i had friends like you >.<

[LukeMaximoBell]

This is very very cool! So well made! :) Check out my stop frame made using a Wallace and Gromit Rabbit as inspiration!! :)

[AverageJoeNJ]

is there a job for this?

[humanXnature1997]

And I thought u guys would built something big... This is easy I made this often plz next tim do something big

[r3ds0xfan01]

@humanXnature1997 Art is different for every person. I like this because you can see how much dedicated time you need to accomplish something that looks so simple in the end. I'm sure he can build big things, but it's probably not his style. He still is doing a great job whether you liked it or not.

[Crysteliti]

OMG... I CANT EVEN MAKE A SANDCASTLE.

[massimo973kilo]

Awesome Great job!

[kfea82]

Haha I have no idea why I was so surprised when I saw water :)

This is great!

[lujamming]

MUy bueno!!!

[OhhhSoooSweet]

AMAZING!!!!

[gamerRevolution4]

it would suck if some douchy kid came running up and stomped on your sand sculptures

[PurpleSmurfDay]

Thumbs up if this made you want to go to the beach and make a video :)

[marktreanor19]

mesmerising.  Thank you so much. Do you have to crawl out of shot every time you take a frame?

[junglemap]

@marktreanor19

I have to get out of every frame and trigger the shutter for the stop motion. For time-lapse it is a lot easier, but I end up in most of the frames...

[syp1002]

20 ppl are just jealous...  i wish this gets more views

[frederikbijanhoff]

How long did this take to make? AMAZING VIDEO! Bravo!

[jitan6]

The sands so fine!! Nice.

[northie66]

I love this. I could play in the sand all day.

[Gonzo5962]

This is just amazing, i love it... you inspire me... thanks.



[Gonzo5962]

This is just amazing, i love it... you inspire me... thanks.

[NikitoSPivot]

the sand one was the best

[ghilliegreen]

that rocks so hard

[stiva80]

this deserves more views

[mootoo31]

i live in manhattan beach :)

[lintbing]

The 3rd piece reminded me of Henry Moore's sculptures a bit. Nice work

[10fetching]

so smooth :)

[chdata]

nice poop sculptures

[VladVolkova]

@chdata hahahahahahahhhhahhahaahahahah­ahaahhahahaa sand* hahahahhahhahahahahhhahaha

[cloudingx]

how do you make the sculptures to be so smooth?

[AveragetoPoor]

I don't know if this will work at all but I've uploaded some stop motion videos I created. I'm pretty pleased with them but I'd love some feedback on them from fellow stop motion admirers. The videos are on my channel is anyone could check them out. Thanks x

[teomatl]

Hi, great video, sorry what is the name of the melody

[Whisper0ak]

my back aches just looking at this

[kitkat12340]

I thought this video was amazing. And how does your battery last long enough to do each one???

[junglemap]

Lithium battery lasts all day. It's just taking still images every five seconds so it's not doing that much. More importantly, the monitor is not on sucking up all the power. I do these with an SLR camera now. Most of this video was shot on an HVX video camera, but an SLR is even better though because each frame is better quality. You don't need expensive gear to makes these videos.

[marina8587]

Very enjoy video;)

[lightcrumble]

I enjoyed your video.  Maybe for the next one you could shape it down like you do to the shapes, smooth out all the sand, then keep going, shaping more and finally be left with nothing, but maybe a small fruit or vegetable lying on the sand. A real fruit, like an apple- something you can eat.

[Whisper0ak]

cool

[gurshalyulo]

If you like stop motion you should check mine out

/watch?v=-cxhQ6AqtsY

[nfvman]

I like the way you only make abstract shapes that ( in my mind ) Look like...Well.... Nothing at all. Well done

[MrBassdude12]

those 17 people can suck my balls! how can you dislike something that took so muck time and care.

[EmoScreamoForever]

Um... No offense but do you ever do anything besides random shapes?

[junglemap]

@EmoScreamoForever 

No

[picaticatara]

sand.

[endoTHEOSIS]

Do you have a job?

[Thomasis02]

@endoTHEOSIS you know sand sculpting is a job

[endoTHEOSIS]

@Thomasis02 ...I want to sculpt sand.

[BZepherD]

makes me want to go make some sand shit

[ForchettaBisius]

meraviglioso, bravissimo

ciao massimo

[flyingflotilla]

awesome video! check out "flyingflotilla-stop motion"

[sgsjk]

Awesome!

[Archisand]

The Art is Great and the Time Lapse is unique!

[MuddyTonic]

Very nice sand art. Are you a plumber?

[SilentSlash157]

I am not criticizing your work at all, but I'm just saying those look very unique and odd. So if you take that offensively, I'm sorry.

[mkayfolks]

This must have taken a very, very long time. Doing a small thing, then getting up and getting out of the shot, then repeating it over and over and over again. What a workout that must have been!

[aaaaaaanand]

i wonder what his fingernails look  like o.o

[ayshSYED]

wow, I really like this, I think it's length is fine. the water seemed so fierce, violent eating away at the... squiggles. I would love to do this, just have to go find me some sand.

[XSorrowXGoreX]

This is amazing, I wouldn't even have the patients to do something like this for stop-motion. :D

[lorthin123]

junglemap. I'm more curious of the time interval than anything else really.

[TheJackieFilms]

Ok cool, sub to me!

[TheJackieFilms]

Great but if u want to keep ur audiance around make te video shorter

[junglemap]

The next one will be shorter.

[neuuga2009]

@junglemap I'm part of the audience and I stuck around. I really enjoyed it. Thanks.

[smartiewebgirl]

whoa this is good....

[weaverwerx]

Beautiful stuff.

[ZbraKeyProduction]

hahah this is sweet

must have taken a while

check out my stop motion videos!

[GreatTotojojo]

It will impress us more if you represant somthing ... But nice videos ;)

[catstuffer]

I think the light helps make these sculptures amazing. The shadows in direct light looks really awesome! (especially the last one in the vid that looked like a bunch of smooth stones)

[Kelpy]

having "done" about seven stop-action films of this type, I know how much effort and time, and planning it takes, you do not do yourself justice in the descript, yes, inspiring, fab, where to from here ?

[Milkmadness]

i'm guessing the editing was harder than the actual sculpting?

[junglemap]

There was little editing... Just pasting them all together..

[JuudjjX]

1:30 some people walk over the beach :)

[FlipBookWorks]

wow, jungle map the video was really good, but too much of it put together for nine minutes!!

well done especially the first scene of sculpting..!!

check out my channel for similar work in time lapse and stop motion....

[txenha]

Great job!

[creativityfish]

wow that was amazing

[imortalism]

if i tried this at huntington beach kids would come over and watch and probably knock it over :( too bad.

[OMGFilms100]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[gotz777]

i understand about the impermanence of all things but i would like to go at some of these sand sculptures with a big bag of cement.

save them for a while.

excellent work btw

[JohnnyCriptic]

...a very pleasing dynamic experience...it looks so much fun...makes me want to do it......jc

[Cancunchito]

Nice!

[poikochan87]

OMG! O_O so awesome! :) 5 stars :)

[TheDarkReap3r]

i like the way the shadows move

[the12221]

awesoM!!!!!!!

[nezt5193]

4:50 dying art :(

[JakeM624]

They have a lot of time on their hands haha

[brutalplanet23]

Good sculptures

[xagdollproductionsx]

Holy crapolies! That's amazing. :O

[mujawooja]

brilliant work

[TheTurdBurglur]

One of the better vids on youtube

[m12use]

that must've took SUPER long man. making that much sculptures and turning it into stop motion? holy shoot. THEY ARE SUPER COOL!

[bibbed87]

last 2 are beautiful

[Cruz08erZ]

ur sculptures are of the most random shapes, yet their so friggin awesome!

[kejh]

good choice of sand...you will never get the same effect if you use some typical type of sand..

[andreww04]

wow, GREAT!! definatly deserves over 1 million views

[ssnnqq]

wow

[Weaaly]

8:43 is coolest one!!! and i love how you made the vids!

[Ksquaredgaming]

I think its 5 frames every one second... you got it mixed up

[swEEtgwendy]

unglaublich

[LilMissCrazee22]

ooh, i LOVE this video ... wow, great job..

[tenor529]

This might be the coolest thing I've ever seen on YouTube.

[xXIEATURFACEXx2]

u shood make a sand stone henge with ur extreme expertise

[reaperboy3751]

The one that disapears on :45 looks like a penus and balls but im not sayin anything bad because it is a work of art.

[glitcherkid]

5 STARS!!!!!!!!

[baurusgate]

falta duq faze é foda

[Username142536]

Very cool, I would say.

[doshus73]

Do you wet the sand? It's cool how it retains the shapes this way.

[junglemap]

I do not add water to the sand.

[couerl]

I'm curious to know what a good FPS standard is for stop motion, 1 frame per second or are you using even less maybe?

[TheKillCommander]

I would say he's using 10 - 15 FPS

[junglemap]

The time lapse is recorded one frame every five seconds. The stop motion depends on when I hit the shutter... usually one frame every ten seconds or so... When I say seconds, that's literal seconds when I'm making it, not seconds when you're watching it.

[lorthin123]

@junglemap Curious... Was this framed for every second passed in the video 5 seconds was passed in real life? That being said: 5 seconds equals one frame? And another curios thing is that it takes a human 30 frames per second to initialize an image; so would that be 5secs=1 frame x 30human =30frames x 5 secs= 150 seconds your time per frame in the video?

[junglemap]

@lorthin123 Okay, there are many different videos pasted together. I used a $100 camera for sculptures 7 and 8, the others I did with an HD video camera or with an SLR. The frame rates on the stop motion just depends on when I hit the shutter which could be anywhere from 3 to 90 seconds. The time-lapse is set at just 5 seconds between frames.

[bohemiancheesecake]

lmfao how?

[danny9guzz]

amazing..thats an art!

[1281natrapS]

INSANE....

[sheshosha]

Wow wow wow

[Barnetimetante]

AMAZING

[mirtouba]

c est tres coole

[Spawn07O1]

O.O

wow...............

[laszlohace]

pacefully!

[graphicoh]

awesome work. it doesn't get any more organic than that. u work with what u have, the sand, your hands. i like the music. i have that cd at home. keep it up.

[aW9Rn]

you rock dude :D nice vid!

[dukwbutter]

I just saw this on WGN Video Stop, but it was sped up about 10 times faster and had a cooler soundtrack. Nice work, but the soundtrack you chose doesn't do your work justice, IMHO. Also, 10 minutes is too long for the video. Should be about 3-4 minutes I would think.

[junglemap]

Thanks for the WGN info, I submitted that months ago... At 10 minutes, this video is way too long, my next video will be much shorter.

[Mackmation]

amazing work, great job.

[alitlweird]

thank you for creating something so amazing!!

[marcelodagnone]

Man, wow.. how long do you sleep night after make a sculture?? .You are well fit for that tough movements, congratulation...

[shyshimo]

how are u so patient

[ladyamerias]

very cool! they seem to flow.

[tamilpride321]

wow good work! very pleasing to the eye

[jeangrey65]

Love making Sand sculptures!

[Adammythbusterspl]

Genius work!

[TheBestWebVideosShow]

This is so cool

[pwnagestopmotion]

awesome!!!!

[welshsteve2009]

Just rated your video 5*

I was only able to rate it 5 because unfortunately it does not go up to 10

[RobZombie788]

well done nice work . how many slides?

[junglemap]

For the stop motion it was roughly 1400 images per minute when viewed because I extended the timing in a few places. If you don't adjust the timing its 1800 images per minute. The time lapse is 12 images per minute while its being recorded. Stop motion usually takes 3 times longer to make than time-lapse

[welshsteve2009]

Awesome!

I love the organic shapes and the way you 'clean up' at the end to frame the 'subjects'.

Imortalism commented (6 below) that you should leave your work so that people could admire it but I feel there is something poignant about the way the shapes are 'born' then 'die' at the end almost like they have their own little life cycle.

Wonderful.

I will be sending your video to my subscribers and friends.

[JeffBilkins]

Next up: the same smoothie shapes, below the tideline, and include time-lapse of that too (the way sand-sculptures should be destroyed is by waves).

[MrAlexolguin]

wow! it was awesome! woh can you make this scultures? I coudn't, really , you have a great talent!

[MRHAPPYWTF]

im sure at 0:56 i seen someone run by...

[supermacgurl19]

wow this awsome i give u total props 4 doing this it's awsome! favorited!

[imortalism]

if i were u i would leave it so people could admire ur work. i mean that was amazing!

[duschtin]

these are cool, but i feel that with such sculpting abilities that you could make so much more, like buildings and houses and people and other cool stuff. not saying your oval shapes arent cool...

[qaserthilp]

I bet your back would hurt like crazy after doing something like that all day.

I wonder just how many frames it took to make this video.

[nnikb7]

how do u keep the lighting constant???

[22dominos]

He is sculpting them so fast you can't even see him! the light would change in the 1 min it takes for him to sculpture these... shapes

[welshsteve2009]

The light does change. Watch carefully and you will see the shadows moving slowly acros his work.

[swinchester5]

i think he has his own setup, maybe

[samsab233]

People that do this call themselves sand artists, but everyone else just calls them the unemployed. :P

I love watching this stuff. I'm not trying to make fun of you. Well, a little.

[magicianscratch]

you should make a bone shape then put caution tape around it...make people think its a fossil

[TheUnexpectables]

lmao good idea :P

[Laurensmay]

Takes alot of patience! Really nice though, next time I'm at the beach I will attempt something like this!

[nameofthepen]

Fun to watch! Very good video. :-)

[thepianolover4ever]

how do you get the sand so smooth?

[schoschie]

This is very mesmerizing and meditative. I like your sculptures, unusually abstract and organic. Nice!

[miacat10]

oooh cool. My dad does that too :)

[Sakkosekk]

that cant be good for ur back

[NarutoHinataForeva]

duh dude! Awesome vids get a lot of views. Luv yur wrk! O.o amazed!

[amurderofcrowz]

cool. wish he made something cooler though

[Godsherb420]

that was fun , i could watch that for an hour or two , nice work man