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Hey! Since we’re looking at United Airlines commercials, let’s watch another utilizing a very artsy stopmotion technique.

United Airlines “Rose”

Alexander Petrov is a Russian animator who works with paint and glass. Pretrov literally “fingerpaints” every frame of his animations, using slow-drying oil paint which he smudges into dreamy landscapes of color and motion. His most famous work is a production of “The Old Man and the Sea”, by Earnest Hemingway, which took two years to make and 29,000+individual frames. That’s twenty-nine thousand individual paintings.

Alexander Petrov, Making of:

We’re sorry this is completely in Russian, but you can watch Petrov’s fingerpainting style and see his animating setup in this clip.

The Score of “Rose”

This is a little “making of” the score for “Rose”. Seems we’re not the only ones to have Gershwin on our minds…
Petrov currently works closely with Pascal Blais Studios. Watch the Newfundland “Pitcher Plant” clip. It’s really neat. Warning: Flash-based web design and gratuitous sound effects ahead. Make sure your speakers are properly adjusted.