Stop Motion Sand Sculpture

I made these pieces at El Segundo and Manhattan Beach here in Los Angeles. The time-lapse sculptures typically take around 2 hours. The stop motion ones usually take 6-7 hours. I usually don't use any tools when I work. The music is from the 2000 LTJ Bukem album Journey Inwards, the song is called Watercolours. I shoot with a video camera, but it is possible to do the same work with any digital camera. My website has more images of the sand sculptures: www.catdesigns.com

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• sand
• sculpture
• beach
• stop-motion
• time-lapse
• art
• time
• lapse
• stop
• motion
• water

[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.

[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.

[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.

[junglemap]

@EmoScreamoForever 

No

[EmoScreamoForever]

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

[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.

[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.