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Back to the Future: Stop Motion

We create Hollywood effects with simple household products... and so can you.

Back to the Future: Stop Motion

Season 1 Episode 41 | 5m 33s

After doing the Ghostbusters proton streams I came up with an idea to re-create the time slice effect from Back to the Future using stop-motion animation & light painting techniques.

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