stop-motion

Stop motion animation is a technique in which objects are moved in small increments and photographed frame by frame so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion when they are played back. Any kind of object can thus be animated.

Have a walk in my animated universe. If you want to understand what drives me to create these elaborate films, watch the short documentary about my work, made by Ulrike Peichert some years ago.

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Here is a selection of my stop-motion films I created over the years. The biggest magic is the creation of your own little universe…

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Susi Schraube, Series for Sesame Street (26 films), Germany, 2012-2013

Episode: Clean up your room!

Idea and animation: Cecile Noldus, Dirk Bertram,  Produced by Holger Hermesmeier, NDR Sesamstrasse, Hamburg,  Music: Dirk Bertram, Puppets and Setbuilding: Cecile Noldus

Nominated for Goldener Spatz, 2013

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Susi Schraube, Series for Sesame Street (26 films), Germany, 2012-2013

Episode: A hair wash hat! (short version)

Susi gets a letter: Clara just doesn´t like to wash her hair, she always gets soap in her eyes. She asks Susi if she can invent something. Susi has a good idea! Idea and animation: Cecile Noldus, Dirk Bertram,  Produced by Holger Hermesmeier, NDR Sesamstrasse, Hamburg,  Music: Dirk Bertram, Puppets, and Setbuilding: Cecile Noldus

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Freddy´s Crazy Kitchen – 2015, Germany, model animation

Filmmaker: Cecile Noldus

Duration: 12:15, Music: Andrew Krell, Carsten Dane, Producer: Blub Box Lab, executive producer: Ingmar Böschen,  commissioned by Filmförderung  Hamburg Schleswig Holstein,  Synopsis: Freddy is home alone, and suddenly the kitchen comes alive. Pilot project for future series and short films.

Chosen best short film of the month September 2015 by FBW

“Freddy´s Crazy Kitchen” was made as a pilot project for a future series. In the meantime, it has been a great setting for custom made films. Like this publicity film for Thai food, and the learning videos about autism for Julie Sando.

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Publicity film for “Citroengras”, Thai food company, NL. 

Puppets, animation, and set-building: Cecile Noldus. Music: traditional. Germany/NL 2017

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Natural Play Therapy shares: “The 5 stages of play” presented as “Watchberdie”. The last word is an acronym. Educational films about autism for parents.

5 learning films about the work of Julie Sando and her company “Autistically Inclined”, explaining their approach towards working with autistic children. The 5 stages of play between a parent and a child, going from solitary play, spectator play, parallel play, associative play to the final cooperative play. San Diego (US) /Hamburg (Germany), 2015.  Concept and direction: Julie Sando, Animation, puppets, and set: Cecile Noldus, Music: Shawn Madden. For more information: http://www.autisticallyinclined.com/services.html

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Interstellar Afternoon

Animated video clip for “the Voo”.

2022

Technique: stop motion animation with green-key and drawn animation, edited in After Effects

This video was made after one of the musicians of the band who made the music, my dear friend Andrew suddenly passed away. It’s been a low-budget production, but it was great to create a video to honor my friend. Technically I would solve some things differently now, but it was fun to try to find solutions to represent the universe and black holes using plasticine and tiny objects and play around with green-screen technique to make the astronauts fly, who were hanging on aluminum wires in front of a green background. The wires needed to be erased in each frame, and the stars were created on various layers in After Effects. They still look a bit too stiff to me, but learning forever. I think now when using AI there are interesting options to add more dynamics…

Animating people is a special challenge, but it is so much fun. I have created a lot of short animations with people at gallery openings and special events. It takes patience from both the filmmaker and the model. It will always be a tiny film. But a unique one!

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Nightriders

Created at a “Burning Man” reunion in Hamburg. “Hamburn”, October  2017, the first Burning Man meeting in Hamburg. I animated the lovely guests and was inspired by their personalities and the colors that they wore. Real magic was happening that night!

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LuMa-DaDa 01

Dadaistic animation created with the audience. A room full of paper dresses, masks, oversized gloves and children´s instruments. LuMa-DaDa is the word for this. Enlightened dadaism. Performed at “2025, Kunst und Kultur e.V.”, Hamburg 2015.

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LuMa-DaDa 03; 

” a rollercoaster”

Animating the audience in another gallery. Performed at “Galerie Westwerk”, Hamburg 2016.

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Sturmflut

Recorded at the “Kunstherbst”, an art event in Hamburg, October  2017, animations made with the audience. It was great to animate different kinds of people, young and old, and lift up their person in a special way.

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Tumba – 1999, Germany, model animation

Filmmaker: Cecile Noldus

Music: Jan Pflug, Sergei Zagny, Producer: Charles Kissing, Duration: 7:13,  commissioned by Filmförderung des NDR Niedersachsen,   Synopsis: 7 short stories about potatoes, letters, music, and friendship. Broadcasted at ARD Germany.

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Das Orchester der Dinge – 1998, Germany, digital video

Filmmaker: Cecile Noldus

Music: Cecile Noldus,   Producer: Charles Kissing, Duration: 7:00,  commissioned by the Film Förderung Hamburg GmbH,   Synopsis: the sounds and everyday actions of our environment newly observed. Shown at various festivals and on EXPO, Hannover

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The Blub Box Lab – 1996, Germany, model animation

Filmmaker: Cecile Noldus

Music: Carsten Dane, Gunnar Schmidt,   Duration: 4:29,  commissioned by the Film Förderung Hamburg GmbH,  screened at various international festivals, Synopsis: genetic instability in vegetative systems

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Opus Dei – 1993, NL, model animation

Filmmaker: Cecile Noldus

Producer: Orlow Seunke,   Music: Dirk Bruinsma,   Duration: 7:15,  commissioned by the Dutch Film Fund,   screened at various international festivals, Synopsis: The Genesis story interpreted

filmography Cecile Noldus