Friday Movie Morning with Voltaire

Aurelio Voltaire Hernández, aka Voltaire (whose song video I featured Monday) is not just a musician. He's also a director, stop-motion specialist, author and professor at SVA! 

Here are a few examples of his stop-motion work: 

I love this style. Transrexia (the second video) reminds me a bit of Clash of the Titans, which really is not surprising considering Sinbad was Voltaire's initial inspiration to start doing what he does. At the tender age of eight. I wish I had the patience to do stop motion because the results can really be beautiful. I am, however, so happy that the art hasn't been put to the grave yet (this year's Coraline was beautiful beyond words and I highly recommend it...which is saying a lot because I was expecting to hate it going in). 

Voltaire has also done a lot of spots for channels like SciFi, Cartoon Network and TLC:

Hmm.. sensing a theme here...

And finally here is Voltaire's song and video for Happy Birthday (my olde friend):  

I must say that his voice reminds me of a certain skeleton king's. Can you guess to whom I'm referring?

Viva Calaca

Beautiful. Simply beautiful. Video done by Ritxi Ostáriz, song sung by Voltaire. Ostáriz website is currently down but here is another video done by him. And another (actually I think I like this one the best).

I love this style of animation. Everything is flat but put within a very detailed depth. It fits very well with the song (check out Voltaire's myspace site. I really dig his music. It's very much along the lines of Gogol Bordello and DeVotchKa but with a thicker American flavor). Overall he seems to just do very beautiful worked and I'm bummed his site is down.