There are a some very creative stop motion videos appearing on YouTube these days. A good friend of mine pointed me to this video which appears to be a clever marketing ploy from Olympus for their new digital E-P1 PEN camera which was announced just recently and available from B&H Photo.

Update March 2010: The new digital E-P2 PEN camera is now available from B&H photo.

Here is what Olympus says about the video:

This is the PEN Story in stop motion. We shot 60.000 pictures, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post production! Thanks to all the stop motion artists who inspired us.

Just think for a moment about the time and effort that have gone into the production of this little video.

Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, therefore creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence in a video.

Check out the PEN Story and enjoy three minutes of incredible creativity!

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