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Electrabe’s pixilation using 288,000 individual candles. Pixilation and stop motion techniques have been around since the 1900′s. The techniques seam to be growing in popularity, with all the new technology and software that has made these techniques available to any person in their bedroom. It is pushing creatives to think harder and for the final creation to prove beyond doubt that a lot of time was spent on this! This reminds me of all those domino rallies in the 80′s, there must be an universal fascination with finicky tasks that take up a lot of time. When it works it looks like Electrabel and when it tries to hard it’s “Happy New Year! (2009) in HD”

My not so best is Happy New Year! (2009)

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This guy having a go in his room is commendable FlippyCat’s channel has 1,026,401 views and currently the 5th most viewed all time for Canada.

Which is the more successful new years message?