The Hunting of the Unicorn (stop-motion animation)

A short animation experiment. Sorry it' been so long since we released a video, but we promise there are much more awesome things coming in the next couple of months.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• go
• motion
• animations
• stop
• frame
• puppet
• digital
• photography
• puppetry
• 3d
• 2d
• glass
• silhouette
• czech
• russian
• polish
• style
• eastern
• european
• Jiri
• Trnka
• Midsummer
• Night's
• dream
• Staré
• Ceske
• povesti
• The
• Hand
• Bohemian
• Lengends
• Barta
• Jan
• svankmajer
• Yuri
• Norstein
• Yuriy
• Norshteyn
• Ivan
• Ivanov-Vano
• Battle
• of
• Kerzhenets
• hedgehog
• in
• the
• fog
• Lotte
• reiniger
• Tim
• Burton
• sleepy
• hollow
• vinicent
• halifirien
• unicorn
• legend
• myth
• ray
• harryhausen
• Willis
• O'Brien

[80sOGRE]

great job. I really enjoyed that. some clever effects. was it just the two of you who made it ? how long did it take all up ?

[HalifirienTheMovie]

@80sOGRE It took from around April till it's release at the beginning of august.

I designed, animated, photographed, edited, and designed the sound.

Peter Clarke did the music and some of the sound design

and James Robinson helped design some of the silhouettes

[StopmoNick]

That is a very fine piece of film making! A beautiful graphic style, which also allowed you to show things that would have been very difficult if you had to build everything as a full 3d stop motion puppet and set. Good pace, editing, and storyline. Thank you for mentioning it over at the stopmotion animation board, I would have missed it otherwise.

[HalifirienTheMovie]

@StopmoNick Thanks a lot! I've been a fan of your work for quite some time

[bluworm]

I am astounded by your incredible creativity! Totally original and beautiful. I can't even begin to figure out all the work that must've gone into this!

[HalifirienTheMovie]

@bluworm Thanks, it took months. It would be awesome to collaborate at some point.

[xsavi11x]

this is very good :)

[iagoworks]

great animation, great sonorization and amazing style. love it.

[nemuihana]

Gives me nostalgic vibes. I love it!

[DeluxeStudioVisual]

cool

[Creafret88228]

cant anyone make a video where the unicorn is bad ass and wins?? no? fine... I'll do it. >|

btw, loved your film, it was beautifully done and very artistic!! :D

[lilrobotunicorn]

awww why did ya try to kill the unicorn? unicorns and glitter 4 ever!

[TheTwoHunters]

Very well done! This must of taken ages