Eric Power makes Music (Videos)

Still from Many Birthdays

Falling cliffs, dancing skyscrapers, and a hunter who receives hole-punched enlightenment from Shiva; Eric Power’s stop-motion animation isn’t the primitive Gumby clay-jerks of earlier times. Austin-based Power, who runs his own production company called Clear Production, constructs painstakingly detailed, vivid, and bustling animation with a mesmerizing blend of stop-motion, claymation, digital art, painted newspaper, origami, and ink drawings. Two lovers made out of yarn tangle each other up and roll into a yarn ball; a black and white city is spontaneously transformed into a vividly-colored world by two flying bicycles. Power’s weird-crazy-awesome animation is bound to leave you asking two questions: “How’d he do that?” and “How long did it take?”