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What Makes Stop Motion So Creepy? | Traven Talks

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Stop Motion is simultaneously one of the most spectacular and, most, terrifying, forms of animation.
I’m not the first to notice that Stop Motion can be kinda creepy. In fact, many creators working with it seemed to have realized this a while ago, given the amount of dark or horror themed films and shorts that go out of their way to exploit this aspect of the medium rather than shy away from it. There’s just something about the movements that seems so mechanical. Something about the textures that makes your skin crawl. It's all so weird, so eerie, so uncanny.
And this Halloween season, I want to talk about what I think makes this tactile trade so creepy for so many.
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- Symbol of Peace - Yuki Hayashi
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- The House of Leaves - Kevin MacLeod
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- They Said... - Kensuke Ushio
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- The Crawling - Kensuke Ushio
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- Anxiety - Kensuke Ushio
Part of Devilman Crybaby’s Soundtrack
- Norman's Walk - Jon Brion
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♣| FOOTAGE USED/MEDIA DISCUSSED |♣
- Coraline (2009)
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
- The Maker
- Kubo & The Two Strings
- The Haunted Hotel (1907)
- The Automatic Moving Company (1912)
- The Lost World (1925)
- King Kong (1933)
- Morph (Animated Series)
- Wallace & Gromit Great Adventure TV Ad
- The Fast Show (TV Series)
- Crooked Rot
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- The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)
- A Close Shave (1995)
- Pluto and the Vessel
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- ParaNorman
- Toaster:
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- Parkour Atlas
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- ASIMO
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- HRP-4C (Miim)
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- Sophia the AI Robot
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- Bryan Dechart meets Connor & Hank in real life
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- Ghost in the Shell (2017)
- Animatronic Lincoln
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- Tin Toy (1988)
- Image Metrics Emily
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- Face Lift
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- Child's Play (1998)
- Isle of Dogs
- FOXED! (2013)
- The Wrong Trousers (1993)
- A KISS IN THE DARKNESS
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- The Cat With Hands (2001)
- The Sandman (1992)
- Anomalisa
- Hinamatsuri
- Next Gen (2018)
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Behind the Scenes Footage/Images:
The Boxtrolls
Deer Flower
Kubo & The Two Strings
Coraline
Isle of Dogs
ParaNorman
The Wrong Trousers
Anomalisa
♣| OTHER MEDIA REFERENCED |♣
- The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1897)
- Chicken Run
- Lucanus Cervus (1910)
- Spongebob Squarepants
- Fantastic Mr. Fox, by Roald Dahl
♣| SOURCES/LINKS |♣
- A Brief History of Stop Motion
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- “The Uncanny Valley” 2012 Translation
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- Masahiro Mori Interview
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- Editorial on the Uncanny Valley hypotheses
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- Overview of research on the Uncanny Valley hypotheses
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- Other Articles on Stop Motion’s Creepiness:
www.inverse.co...
www.theguardia...
#StopMotion #UncannyValley #Halloween Halloween Halloween - This Is Hallowee - Okay I'll stop.

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@TravenTalks 5 лет назад

A couple of notes: - I'd like to thank ZyanXynx (Infinite Thoughts) for helping me spruce up the script for this video, and to shout him out, he makes some pretty cool stuff: ru-vid.com/show-UCSAX39WESWgIxFSjktezELg - I decided to test out RU-vid Premieres with this video, and, ultimately, as you can probably see me and others discuss in the live chat replay, it seems like a . . . meh feature, is really the only way to describe it. Sure, it might have the potential to boost watch time so that vids can have a chance to be recommended more cuz "the algorithm", and help with community engagement, and etc, but really it seems like more of a hassle than it's worth, given that a lot of backend stuff can't be set up until AFTER the premiere ends, the annoyance of getting notifications for videos you can't watch, etc etc. I think there might still be a useful way to use it, but, still, seems kinda pointless. No offence, youtube. TLDR; Probably won't be doing this again, lol

@TravenTalks 5 лет назад

Oh, also, captions'll be up in a few mins :D

@infinitethoughs 5 лет назад

:0 Also: i love the touch ups you did with the video! And of course: gotta love the beauty of stop-motion animation~~! :D

@TravenTalks 5 лет назад

OoO Thanks man! I feel like I could've done better (and fancier) but I was purposely making myself keep it all simple. The first run of the edit was, quite a visual mess, I must say, lol. And yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah boooooooooooiiiiiiiiiiiii stop motion ftw xP

@allisonfikes5104 4 года назад

I’m glad I’m not the only person who Claymation makes their skin crawl

@nenitastar99 Год назад

Dude same, I fucking hate it

@user-gw1mr2cs3i 11 месяцев назад

I never liked Wallace and Gromit

@hopiehope5369 4 года назад

""There’s just something about the movements that seems so mechanical. Something about the textures that makes your skin crawl. It's all so weird, so eerie, so uncanny." finally that explains my thing

@watermlnjuice_forbl00d 2 года назад

I have a fear (either rational or irrational idk the difference) of stop motion animations, they’re always so creepy and eerie to a certain extent, but that’s the same reason why I’m completely obsessed with it

@DarylTalksGames 5 лет назад

Glad to see you back my dude! This was an unsettling delight. The uncanny valley is so fascinating, but I never thought about it in the context of stop-motion. Also I gotta say I disagree about Gromit, I still think he's pretty adorable xD

@TravenTalks 5 лет назад

Thanks man, glad you liked it! It was a pretty fun vid to make, especially considering how long I've had this general idea sitting in the back of my mind, it was starting to drive me mad, lol And, oh dear, a disagreement . . . guess the only way to settle this is with a battle to death in the Grand Sand Pit. I'll see you at dusk, good sir :P Srsly tho, maybe it's just me but there's something about Gromit that seems ever so slightly off and its unsettling, and I'm still not sure what it is xP

@DarylTalksGames 5 лет назад

Oh believe me, I know the feeling lol. Good ideas only grow the longer you don't pay attention to them. But I totally get that haha. Everyone else in the movie makes me uneasy too, I think I'm just too much of a dog person xD

@gasmrdotexe5798 5 лет назад

I love the movie Caroline, but The Box Trolls creeps me tf out

@zevuse_440 4 года назад

Gasmr dotexe me to the way they look its just weird 🤣🤣

@scarletred616 4 года назад

Claymation specially makes my skin crawl mostly scary videos tho but not kid shows just a little creeped out

@juanramirez-wk8ty Месяц назад

The "strobing" effect of stop motion which happens because there is no blurring of the moving objects in the frame to frame photography as occurrs in actual live action photography is an effect and aspect of stop motion I have always loved and found fascinating. Un fortunately (for me) a lot of modern stop motion has advanced to the point where it is just about indistinguishable from cgi and although amazing loses much of it's inherent rough/primitive charm.

@Thearchivedtoychannel26 4 дня назад

I screamed when I saw a disturbing Claymation PSA thumbnail in my homepage. It was about child abuse. I couldn't tell at first weather the stuffed animal was a bear or dog or a mouse. It was acually supposed to be a stuffed bear, and I couldn't even tell at first. Since then, I have reported it because of the disturbing animation. I cried myself to sleep that night when I first encountered the thumbnail. I was even more scared when I played it. The animation made no sense with the audio. What kind of sick person would put up an old maybe 90's 2000's PSA that terrifying?

@AnthonyRusso93 10 месяцев назад

The Abraham Lincoln anamatronic isn't uncanny that was too realistic to be. It is actually really impressive

@winnielaws8673 5 лет назад

This is incredibly interesting and entertaining. Thank you for all the work you put into this!

@TravenTalks 5 лет назад

Thanks so much, glad you liked it! :D

@sinom 5 лет назад

I really LOVE studio Laika. My favourite of their movies still is Coraline. I really wanted to watch Kubo when it was in cinemas but apparently the cinema where I live decided that noone wanted to watch it so only had one screening and that was at midnight on a school day... Still haven't watched it since but it looks amazing.

@TravenTalks 5 лет назад

Yeah, Laika's great, and Coraline is absolutely fantastic. And man, that sucks! Though, if you have netflix, I think Kubo is actually on there (though, that said, it might depend on the region and all that jazz, but still).

@sinom 5 лет назад

TravenTalks It sadly isn't on Netflix here in Germany. Well I can just buy it. Or see if my local library has it (yes they actually still exist xD)

@TravenTalks 5 лет назад

A library?! *old man voice* Why, I haven't seen one of those in decades . . .

@briancooley8777 4 года назад

Sinom ME TOO. I loved coraline

@thekinginyellowmessiahofha6308 2 года назад

I was thinking about the older, Harryhausen style stuff. That really freaks me out. The RoboCop 2 scene with the malfunctioning prototype robots and the push it video by Static-X are both good examples of that style of old, jittery, wiry, and creepy Stop Motion, where everything feels like it has no weight or too much weight.

@habitablefiction7090 5 лет назад

Just wanna say that you had some really neat video editing effects in there. Of course, the video altogether was great as well!

@TravenTalks 5 лет назад

Thanks man! Spent a good while just purposely fiddlin around with AE to figure it out, and it's helped out quite a lot :D

@xavierrose8208 Год назад

Mrs Tweedy haunted my nightmares

@ImEverytingPeopleHate Год назад

Stop-Motion is my favorite type of animation. pretty much all my favorite movies are Stop-Motion, with my absolute favorite being Coraline. it can be both uncanny and whimsical, so many Stop-Motion films are extremely creative, and you can always tell how much effort goes into everything. any time i watch Stop-Motion, i'm always amazed over everything, like hair physics or the way clothes wrinkle, or how water is animated, the amount of details on everything, like frayed threads on clothes or how when a character walks on gravel, the gravel moves with the character's feet, just things that may seem little but took so much thought and time to get right.

@eltan4748 4 года назад

I think Wallace and Gromit are terrifying i watched it the first time when i was 3. I hate how stopmotion/claymotion characters look and move. Except for the nightmare before christmas. I were just chilling in the comments because i did'nt wanna get scared. I thought this stopmotion is scary thing only were for me because my friends and family could watch it without problem. Ah nvm. Great video!

@user-gw1mr2cs3i Год назад

I agree, Wallace is so creepy, especially the wide mouth

@user-gw1mr2cs3i 11 месяцев назад

I Hate Wallace and Gromit 😡

@JIHYODORANT 2 года назад

I thought I'm the only one. Watched the Addams family stop motion animation and I feel that it's creepy

@dontmindletsplay 5 лет назад

It makes me happy to see you are still making videos pal. Also happy you seem to have gotten "better" after your well deserved, and probably needed break. As these mental issues normally can be quite complicated. So hope you have actually figured something out on that end, for your own sake :P. Must honestly say i haven't taken much interest in the type of content you have been creating since, well. Since you changed your name really xD. But with what i see here, i might just start doing so again. Just wanted to stop by and see how you we're doing to be honest, and tell you even thou i haven't exactly been a regular for a while now, you still have my support, however much that means to you. But as always(-ish), keep yourself going, do what you feel like, and try and stay positive. And of course, i guess i will have to follow this old "tradition" of mine and put my name at the bottom of my comment aswell. ~dontmind

@TravenTalks 5 лет назад

Hey man, long time no see, lol. Yeah, that break definitely helped, and don't sweat it man, everybody's into different kinda videos. And thanks for the support, it means a lot! :D Also, sorry it took so long to reply, was just busy

@jackcarraway4707 2 года назад

Wallace and Gromit don't bother me because they're not as realistic and they're clearly made out of clay. Plus it helps they're charming, likeable characters Coraline lacked the robotic movement that made older stop motion creepy.

@user-gw1mr2cs3i 11 месяцев назад

Why did The Creator of Wallace and Gromit even give him a wide mouth, It freaks me out. You can't even tell if he's showing emotion

@BTEY586 Год назад

Stop-Motion never scared me. I mean, it's my favourite animation style of all time! People that say that some films with that animation type are either, IDIOTS or they didn't watch at least one of them.

@jackblanc4967 Год назад

The House on Netflix is an incredible example of a lot of points in this video!

@SleepyHollowKnight 7 месяцев назад

Fucking Rudolph the red nosed rain deer freaks me out and I’m never scared of anything

@prehistoricpictures_official 2 года назад

Great Video! You deserve way more views and subs!

@KustomiseT 5 лет назад

I should probably watch Coraline already

@TravenTalks 5 лет назад

lol. I mean, I'd highly recommend it, it's a pretty great movie. Fun, whimsical, and incredibly unnerving :P

@KustomiseT 5 лет назад

@@TravenTalks Yea, I put it on my watch-list on Netflix. Will watch it probably this week, I have watched some videos of the foreshadowing which it contains and it seemed like a must see one. Still kinda forgot to watch it and even though I saw plenty of movies during my childhood, this one I'm not too sure I saw. The video just reminded me, and probably this was recommended to me since like 1 month ago I watched those Coraline clips and videos without trying to give myself too many spoilers.

@alexandraw2341 5 лет назад

Omg it's so cool. Great story line too

@briancooley8777 4 года назад

KustomiseT it’s a good one

@monkekingmonke5 4 года назад

Yes you should

@selenajarv8763 2 года назад

Cool vids dude

@stanimirgeorgiev.87 4 года назад

Since i'm an painter and 3d modeler i start thinking for new development on my skils. I love puppets and Stop Motion animation. In one hand it's little late for me to start learning completely new skill such like this - make puppets and animated them - but in to another hand never is too late. I think i really like to do such animacion, but i don't know from where i can start learning. I don''t know course, or university for how to make puppet, animatronic and so one. if someone knows for such school? Can someone help with information? i really will appreciate!

@bigbigarchive Год назад

Stop motion isn’t scary, it’s just a bunch of figures being moved around.

@thickylovescarrots8392 4 года назад

Stop motion is creepy it's just if you use it in a creepy way it will look creepy but if you watch fun ones it's pretty cool

@NZPIEFACE. 5 лет назад

Welcome back?

@TravenTalks 5 лет назад

Thanks! :D Also, yeah, I am back, just making stuff a bit less frequently now

@rawkrXbabee 3 года назад

glad I'm not the only one that thinks this

@zevuse_440 4 года назад

So uncanny

@VladDascaliuc 5 лет назад

Chat went RIP.

@TravenTalks 5 лет назад

Ikr? Ended up accidentally clicking away and it just FRIGGIN DIED XD

@CaptainCJ97 5 лет назад

I hope stop motion never goes away

@monkekingmonke5 4 года назад

Coraline is definitely my favourite stop motion movie

@robschanaynay3500 4 года назад

What movie is the skeleton thing from at 11:55 ?

@TravenTalks 4 года назад

That's from the post-credit scene of Kubo and the Two Strings!

@sporovid5856 2 года назад

*I believe the premise that stop-motion is inherently creepy is flawed.* No offense, but this video is the equivalent of saying CGI is inherently creepy and using “The Polar Express” as your example. There’s a big difference between well done stop-motion and poorly done stop-motion, just like any form of animation. Early stop-motion was always creepy because it was so hard to do. But technology has advanced since then. Studio Laika is the best in the business and their newest movie, “Missing Link” has the most appealing stop-motion I’ve seen. Nothing creepy about it.

@VladDascaliuc 5 лет назад

By the way, has anyone read "Blame!"? I know it's quite old, but I just found it now and it sure is a ride.

@TravenTalks 5 лет назад

I've heard a bit about it, and have been meaning to give it a read, just have to actually get around to it, lol.

@VladDascaliuc 5 лет назад

@@TravenTalks It's not very long, like 60 something chapters (Though you might want to read it twice to get some of the things happening). I'd say it's worth the try, anyways. Hope you enjoy it.

@NZPIEFACE. 5 лет назад

Yep, I've read it. It's one of my favourite manga because of the genre that it represents. Megastructures really need to be explored more as a genre.