Accumulonimbus from andy kennedy on Vimeo.

Here is a great film that is not only fun, experimental and well photographed—it’s animated beautifully. That’s a tough list to pull off, so hats off to Andy Kennedy on this marvel. Oh—we should mention that Andy created the catchy music track as well!

From Andy’s Vimeo description: Natural and man-made objects on a spin cycle accumulate, disintegrate, and multiply. Created by stop motion animating clay on glass, the film is a meditation on motion and the life cycle of matter.

Halfway through production Andy started shooting with Dragon Stop Motion 2.0.

Andy Kennedy – “I have to say you guys put together a really phenomenal piece of software.”

“Dragon is the first piece of stop motion software I’ve used that really feels like it was created by animators. It’s a really well thought out program, and I find it very intuitive to use. I basically opened the program and was shooting scenes for my movie within 20 minutes. I love how well the live view features of the Canon SLRs are integrated into the work flow.”

Andy has a thorough “Making of ” Blog. Check it out.