Richard Svensson: Swedish stop-motion genius-nerd
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Richard Svensson is a prolific, talented and very imaginative Swede who creates cute, twisted, surreal short films featuring a mix of live-action and his own little animated puppet monsters. They make me think of the home movies that really creative kids make when they're around nine years old or so, only he never stopped and over the years his technique improved while his ideas and designs just got even more wacky.
I tried to pick just one of his movies to embed, but I couldn't chose. So, go get yourself a cool beverage and then settle in for a Svennson Smorgasboard!
Svennson likes to make adaptations of poems and short stories by geek fave authors like Lovecraft and Tolkien. His adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky is a real treat. It's in Swedish without subtitles, but it's plenty of fun even if you don't know the original poem. Here are the original words. (Translating the poem into Swedish must have been a bitch. How do you translate words like manxome and borogoves?)
In the mood for some trashy sci-fi Eurodisco? Wrap your eyeballs around this baby, Svennson's music video for Scary UFO.
You're welcome.
What could be more awesome than that? Well, see if you can get through Pirate Babe vs. Evil Toys without passing out from the awesome. Svennson owned my soul with that title alone, and the film more than lives up to it. Apparently it's actually an excerpt from a longer work. That's right, there's more. I will see the rest of this thing by any means necessary, even if I have to fly to Sweden and camp out on Svennson's porch for a few weeks, taking breaks only to scramble down the muddy banks of Lake Hjälmaren, where I will drink from the icy waters and greedily devour whatever live fish I can catch with my pale, shivering hands. Hopefully he'll post the rest online, before it comes to that.
He has lots of other stuff for you to enjoy, and he posts helpful tutorials, too. You say you wanna make your own steampunk diving helmet? Well, Svennson is here for you.
He also makes splendidly ghastly rubber masks.
Get over to this Youtube page and his blog, and see all there is to see. Go on, make with the clicking, you!
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I tried to pick just one of his movies to embed, but I couldn't chose. So, go get yourself a cool beverage and then settle in for a Svennson Smorgasboard!
Svennson likes to make adaptations of poems and short stories by geek fave authors like Lovecraft and Tolkien. His adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky is a real treat. It's in Swedish without subtitles, but it's plenty of fun even if you don't know the original poem. Here are the original words. (Translating the poem into Swedish must have been a bitch. How do you translate words like manxome and borogoves?)
In the mood for some trashy sci-fi Eurodisco? Wrap your eyeballs around this baby, Svennson's music video for Scary UFO.
You're welcome.
What could be more awesome than that? Well, see if you can get through Pirate Babe vs. Evil Toys without passing out from the awesome. Svennson owned my soul with that title alone, and the film more than lives up to it. Apparently it's actually an excerpt from a longer work. That's right, there's more. I will see the rest of this thing by any means necessary, even if I have to fly to Sweden and camp out on Svennson's porch for a few weeks, taking breaks only to scramble down the muddy banks of Lake Hjälmaren, where I will drink from the icy waters and greedily devour whatever live fish I can catch with my pale, shivering hands. Hopefully he'll post the rest online, before it comes to that.
He has lots of other stuff for you to enjoy, and he posts helpful tutorials, too. You say you wanna make your own steampunk diving helmet? Well, Svennson is here for you.
He also makes splendidly ghastly rubber masks.
Get over to this Youtube page and his blog, and see all there is to see. Go on, make with the clicking, you!
Got a tip for Monsters and Rockets? Want to contribute to the site? Send us an email.
1 comments:
Good lord! I just saw your comment on my blog. Thanks for honoring me and my stuff this way. Really appreciate it!
Of course, then I had to ogle through your other posts as well. This page in now bookmarked :)
/Richard
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