Stop Motion Sabotage - A Stop Motion Recreation of Beastie Boys Sabotage video Corduroy Frames 2026-05-29 | NO AI WAS USED IN MAKING THIS VIDEOWhat started as a desire to get better at stop motion videos turned into a five year long obsession with trying to recreate one of the most iconic music videos ever made, one microsecond at a time, using card stock, foam, cardboard, tin foil and cotton balls.Starting with Scene 1 and going in order all the way to Scene 129, I hope that people can see improvement with each scene, taking what I learned and applying it throughout the video…so things that seemed janky and wobbly get figured out over the course of the three minute stop motion epic. In this video there are:4,340 Hand Animated Frames108 Ad Rocks95 MCAs84 Mike Ds5 DJ Hurricanes41 Blue Cop Cars177 Pairs of Little SunglassesIn this video there isn’t:A.I.If you want to support this project and more to come, I'd really appreciate it!buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames
Trailer for Stop Motion Sabotage Corduroy Frames 2026-05-01 | Stop Motion Sabotage is a recreation of the iconic Beastie Boys music video directed by Spike Jonze, made out of paper, cardboard and tin foil. Created over 5 years, artist CorduroyFrames painstakingly recreated the video frame-by-frame, starting with Scene 1 and going in order to the end with Scene 129. Enjoy this trailer - the full video for Stop Motion Sabotage will be released Friday May 29!
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 79: Shot 129 Pt 3 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | THAT’S A WRAP! The day has finally arrived…after more than 5 years, thousands of hours, thousands of pieces of paper and so much learning and having fun, we’ve reached the end of making Stop Motion Sabotage! But as you’ll see I’m still learning things right up until the end (and still making mistakes!) and I still can’t believe it’s over. This project has been the most rewarding project I’ve ever been a part of…it started as a thought about how I could learn to make stop motion better and now I’ve got this video that was like a Stop Motion Masterclass with no one actually teaching…it was just me, the original video and my love for learning and creating. I truly loved working on every frame of this video and I hope you’ve enjoyed watching the process unfold…watching me learn in real time, watching the animation get better, watching my life change as we moved from our little apartment into a real house, watching our family change and grow, and watching this video come to life! Thank you all for all of your support over the years, thank you to my wife, Nicole, for all of her help and patience and thank you to MCA, Mike D, King Ad Rock, Money Mark and Spike Jonze for creating a video so amazing that it’s now a very big part of my life. This video is dedicated to Dogfood, Mrs. Robinson and Jackson, the kitties that were there at the beginning. I wish you could have been here at the end.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 78: Shot 129 Pt 2 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | We’re finally in the studio for the final shot of Stop Motion Sabotage and setting everything up ended up taking much longer than I had originally expected, mainly because there are so many pieces in the background - but it looked great in the end! The characters, on the other hand, ended up needing a bit more work than I expected, which made me have to ditch the first 20 frames I shot. But this is okay…if things aren’t working - don’t just push through. If you know what the problem is - fix it! Even if this means scrapping a bunch of work that you already did. In this case, I didn’t make enough legs and in enough sizes to pull off this shot and it was apparent right away. Also, I had to fix some of the “half cars” I had made. If you feel like something can be improved, improve it! For animation (and maybe for all art - but I’m not expert on any of it), it’s the final product that people see…if they see something that doesn’t work, that’s all they’ll see, but they won’t see the messed up takes and learning experiences that got you to that perfect final product. Take the time to do it right and correct the mistakes if they’re taking you out of the experience. I have to say that’s one of the best lessons I’ve learned on this entire project. And I’m passing it along to you for free, cuz you’re awesome.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 77: Shot 129 Pt 1 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | We finally made it to the final shot of Stop Motion Sabotage! I can’t believe it! So for this shot I decided to walk you through the entire process from designing and cutting out, to putting it together and animation! So for Part 1 of Shot 129 we start at the design stage and I’ll go through how it gets made, cut out and put together. For Shot 129, there are a LOT of individual pieces to be put together to create this scene. I really wanted this final shot to encompass everything I have learned throughout this process and making it very detail oriented was paramount…and now I’m dealing with all these little pieces! So come check out how all of these little pieces become a bunch of medium pieces!Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 76: Shots 126-128 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | My biggest fear with these shots was that the transition from the wide shot with the tiny guys to the close up of the bigger busts of the guys wouldn’t be smooth and would look chunky and dumb. When I first set up the wides for each and then did the close ups on green screen and put them together that’s exactly how they looked. The jump from little dude to big dude was very jarring and odd looking and I thought I had ruined these shots right at the end of the video! But when I got them into After Effects and added motion blur to the push in, I couldn’t believe how great it turned out! It looked seamless and smooth and like there was no transition at all! These were very important shots to pull off and, needless to say, I’m so glad that they worked the way I had hoped they would!Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 75: Shot 125 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | This was a straight forward shot but I really enjoyed, once again, giving the feeling of weight behind the Chief’s hands when he knocked the shoes off of his desk. I had to put the legs together for the beginning of the shot because having them loose really made it difficult to move the Chief behind them. But once they were attached to each other, it actually made them feel more real when he slaps them with his hand and pushes him off. I also really like how his watch turned out.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 74: Shots 123-124 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Shot 123 is almost the exact same shot as Shot 67 except this time there isn’t a title card so I used the same character of the Chief and animated him pointing at his head again. Shot 124 was another one that I was looking forward to because of the details in the characters. But for whatever reason I had never really registered that the Chief is super close to the camera at the beginning of the shot, so I had to make a Chief on the fly and set up a piece of glass with columns of Lego bricks and then have him move across the screen. At first I didn’t have any patterns on the Rookies sweater but quickly realized that it just looked unfinished so I drew them on right before I started to animate and I’m really happy with the results of it. I loved the idea of the two of them just clowning and having a laugh.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 73: Shot 122 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | This shot was a monster to plan and it took weeks. I was trying to wrap my head around how to make things look like they’re moving away from the camera, when everything is placed on a table with different layers of glass. Once I realized that I would have to cut the pieces up as they passed behind part of the car, it got easier to deal with in my head. My wife, Nicole, helped me on the final shot so we could each be in charge of one side of the road, which was nice because it was a lot to keep in mind. Once we got the background finished I got to move on to the characters on a green screen and it was much less stressful. I will forever love the fact that the Rookie takes a drink of coffee after throwing someone out of a moving car! Hilarious! Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 72: Shot 121 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | This was a shot where the details of the scene really lay it out but I wasn’t sure how the dummy that gets thrown out of the car would turn out. In the original shot, the dummy flops out of the car in a big bundle and rarely does it look like a real person. So when I made the recreation, I wanted to keep the blobbiness of the dummy but didn’t know if it would look like a mess of card stock or if it would actually look like the original. I feel like the car and the background look really cool and didn’t want the dummy to ruin the whole thing but once I was animating it just looked hilarious. I was worried that going from the bigger lump to the smaller lump would be jarring but it really sells the idea that we’re driving away from it! For the black stripe on the ground I just took a long skinny piece of card stock and wiggled it around for each frame and it really turned out sweet! The only thing I wish was different is the shadow coming from the dummy.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 71: Shot 120 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | A big shot that goes by in a flash! This was another shot that I had been looking forward to for a long time because it’s so different from any other shot in the entire video…plus I got to make a teeny tiny cop car! All of the houses were made specifically for this shot even though they go by so quickly you may not even notice them. I also didn’t use the “Trees, Shrubs and Bushes” bag for these because they needed to fit specifically in this scene, but so they didn’t blend in with each other I outlined the green with a lighter green so they’ll stand out. I had to do this scene a few times because I was moving the car too much (even though I thought I was barely moving it) but in the end I’m pretty stoked with how this one turned out.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 70: Shot 119 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Another shot where I animated the Bad Guy and the Rookie on their own layer and then shot the car door on green screen and added it after. One thing you may notice with the Rookie is that his arms move from one side of him to the other as he turns his body. This is something that I recently picked up on to really help give the illusion that he’s turning his body, rather than keeping his arms where they were originally. It adds a little bit of a third dimension to the shot.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 69: Shots 117-118 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | I really had no idea if Shot 117 was going to look good or look completely stupid because of Cochese’s E.T. fingers as he’s putting the cuffs on because to see those fingers on their own looked crazy! But I just went with the vibe and movement of the shot and it really turned out cool and funny, which was a huge relief! I also set up a light specifically to shine on the silver of the handcuffs and Cochese’s glasses. For Shot 118, I did the animating of the Bad Guy and Rookie and then added the car after I shot it on a green screen. I wish I did a better job with the Bad Guy’s hair.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 68: Shot 116 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | The hiccup with this shot was that I didn’t make legs for Cochese and had to quickly add them in and they looked kind of hilarious when there was no context for them. For the Bad Guy getting close to the camera, I used columns of Lego bricks and added a few for each frame to bring him closer to the lens which makes it look like he’s getting thrown into the car. It happens super fast so it REALLY looks like he’s getting tossed in, which I think is pretty funny to see. Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 67: Shots 114-115 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | With Shot 114 I really wanted to work on making it look like the Rookie is actually using his weight to push Chubby D down on the table rather than just have everything move on its own. There were times when I would just move the Rookie’s arm, which would move Chubby D so it really did have something behind it as it was animated. I also loved all the little details like the poker chips, cards and money on the table. This was also when I really started to have more moving parts on each person, like in Shot 115, so it really looks like the Chief is holding onto the Bad Guy’s arm and Cochese is really pushing him into the back of the cop car. I shot the roof and door of the car on a green screen so it would be easier to have the Bad Guy go behind them and into the car.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 66: Shot 113 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | This is a shot that was done in multiple parts and had to be done a couple times because I didn’t think of how to shoot it properly and had to redo it. I had shot the action of Cochese and the Chief leading the Bad Guy to the car with the fence in front of them but once I went to animate the Rookie on the green screen I realized that he was ALSO supposed to be behind the green screen! So I had to re-animate Cochese, the Bad Guy and the Chief, then I animated the Rookie on green screen and THEN did the fence on the green screen by itself and hoped that even with the green reflecting off of the fence, it would still all come together in the end and luckily for me, it did!Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 65: Shot 112 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | The greatest thing in this shot from the original video is that, for two frames, you catch someone’s face in the mirror of the car, which I had never seen when watching the video before…but when you break down a video frame by frame you notice things like that! After checking the face in the mirror it occurred to me that the face belonged to director Spike Jonze! I think he’s looking at a monitor or down at the camera or something…so I included him in this shot - but not just for two frames - I figured he deserved a proper cameo so I have him in the shot for the entire thing. This was also another great shot with a ton of details that really make this shot awesome. Another thing I never really noticed was the Chief holding his ax as he gets out of the car.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 64: Shot 111 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | This is a very quick shot that took a lot in preproduction to figure out how to pull it off, which I wasn’t expecting. One thing that’s funny is the colours of the stairs flip for some reason and I didn’t make the legs long enough so if you look closely, you can see where they’ve been extended. Even though this shot is so quick and seemingly very simple, it’s one of the smoothest shots in the entire project and I love the way it looks. It comes from having different shoes for each movement as he’s going from step to step and it translates into a very smooth motion that I really love.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 63: Shot 110 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Shot 110 was another shot where the entire set was built by hand once the camera was set up and I could see how it would all fit together. This was another shot where the camera in the original shot was at the bottom of the stairs looking up so everything had to have some sort of perspective to it (the stairs had to be wider at the bottom than at the top) and I love that, once again, the Rookie uses his hand to brace himself as he’s flying down the stairs.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 62: Shot 109 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | The thing about this shot that gave me the most pause was how to get the Rookie to come flying in the way he does in the original shot. I thought about using glass on different levels throughout his run but that was time consuming and I wasn’t sure if it would actually look correct. So I decided that I would just hold him with my hand and move him closer with each frame until he was right on top of Chubby D and it ended up working really well. He zooms in very quickly and it’s one of those things that really makes me happy that I’m figuring out things as I’m making them and even if the way I do it isn’t the “proper” way of doing it, it works and I like that it’s been done in a weird way that might not make sense to people but it gets the perfect result!Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 61: Shot 108 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Talk about a long process! The actual shot wasn’t too difficult but it did take me a couple tries to get the explosion to look right…but what took a long time was trying to get the “absorbant puffs” to look like clouds of explosive fire! I tried to use paint and then settled on dye, which finally did the trick. Setting up the shot was fun with all the details and having the trunk blow off the car was a cool little thing to add. As with Shot 107, I wrapped plastic wrap around the lens to give it the VHS feel of the original video. Overall, I’m stoked with how this shot turned out after all the work put into it.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 60: Shots 106-107 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Shot 106 falls into the “not difficult to shoot but a lot of fun to set up” kind of shots as well as having stuff in the shot that I didn’t even notice until I went through the original video with a fine toothed comb! It’s really just Cochese holding the radio and looking around but in the far background there’s a person going up the steps and I never put it together that it’s the Chubby D character of Mike D in his chubby suit! Also, I feel like those are the same stairs that are in the “Pass The Mic” video from Check Your Head! For Shot 107, I used plastic wrap over the lens to give it that dreamy, VHS look that’s in the original video. I cut out the titles and shot them on a green screen also using the plastic wrap over the lens so they kept that VHS feel.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 59: Shot 105 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | What a fun shot. I had no intention of recreating the reflection in Cochese’s glasses but once I started the shot and saw that it was in the original, I knew that I couldn’t leave his glasses silver. I checked out what the reflection was in the original and started to recreate it, first with yellow legal paper to get the idea of where things would go and then I made each piece to fit in the glasses. In the end it’s one of my favourite shots to date because of the cartoon-y silliness of it all and I think that the mirror shimmy helps sell the fact that the door has been slammed shut. I always thought that the Sabotage video was kind of like a cartoon to begin with so to be able to really bring out these types of things was a great joy for me.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFramesMusic:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef"Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 58: Shot 103-104 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Shot 103 was a pretty straight forward animation but it was in the little details of breaking down the shot that really stuck with me. Things like how the Rookie braces himself on the Chief with his left hand as he kicks the door, which I had never really registered before. And the phone right beside the door. Shot 104 is the other side of the door as it’s getting kicked down and this was another one that had to be done with a green screen because of all the movement that’s happening behind the door. And even when I had the door on the green screen, it was tricky to figure out how to have it fall down because, once again, I was trying to create something three dimensional using two dimensional tools. The best way to have it work was to have it move straight down once it was kicked in and that seemed to fix the issue.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFramesMusic:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 57: Shots 101-102 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Shot 101 is a lot like Shot 19 and I tried to elevate it with better details and a smoother jump over the hill. One thing I’d change if I went back to it would be to give Cochese (I assume) an actual face rather than the black silhouette, even though in the original video that’s how it looks. I just feel like if the Chief gets a full character build, I should have done the same for Cochese. But Cochese does get a chance to shine in Shot 102 where it’s a VERY straight forward shot of him and then a rack focus to the bomb with a clock on it. This was done practically as I “animated” the shot by having the bomb on a piece of glass that was raised very high with Lego bricks so it could be out of focus and then for each frame, I moved the focus ring a little bit until the bomb and clock were in focus and Cochese wasn’t. The end result is exactly what I had hoped for.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 56: Shots 99-100 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Shot 99 was very tricky to figure out because of the camera movement in the original shot. The camera person is on the floor and is shooting up as Chief runs past, holding the ax and I had to recreate the camera movement without any of the characters in the actual shot, which I did after on a green screen. As you can tell from the time lapses, it took a couple tries to finally get the movement right because I was moving the background and NOT the camera, which makes you have to look at things in a different way and it takes a little bit to figure it out. By the time I got to the Chief on the green screen I was pretty locked in to what I needed to do (ie: really hoped I got it right) and luckily for me - it worked perfectly! The only thing I couldn’t figure out was how to fake the ax going into the door, so I just cut a slice in the door and jammed the ax into it! Shot 100 was easier to pull off but the background had a TON of details with the fences that I hadn’t really paid any attention to but had to add once it was all set up. Again, I loved the details in the background and I think that the Rookie and Cochese really look great and this shot has a smoothness to it that is awesome.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 55: Shots 97-98 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Shot 97 was another one that I was really looking forward to. I loved the way the Bad Guy’s hair whips around as he’s getting smashed into the hood of the car! One thing I didn’t notice until I started to break this video down is that in the background, Cochese tries to grab his billy club but it gets caught in the door frame and he drops it! I tried to recreate that as best I could but if I had noticed it earlier I could have done a better job of it…but look for it in the original video next time you check it out! Shot 98 was a fun one to do as well and needed two different sized Chief’s to pull it off. I was worried that the jump from "Little Chief” to “Big Chief” might be too jarring but it happens so quickly that it looks pretty natural. Also, my plaid shirt game was on point by this time!Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 54: Shots 95-96 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | I loved making the scene in Shot 95! Everything was so cool from the cop car that the Chief steps out of with his ax to the golden van! I love the scenes that have a lot of stuff in the background so when it’s all put together, you know exactly what scene it is, and this is one of those scenes. The same can be said for Shot 96 aka The Bunny Shot. I looked forward to all of the title screens but Bunny’s was the favourite because he only makes one appearance. I loved creating all the different Bunny’s and putting them all together! The titles were cut out and in black and white, glued together and shot on a green screen, then added later.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 53: Shots 93-94 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Shot 93 was a pretty straight forward shot that I wanted to really have all of the details in it to give it some life. Having the hand close on the radio is a very small touch but really helps bring the scene together. Shot 94 is also a pretty straight forward scene but the details are on the Chief and in the background…I found that a lot of the things happening in the background are often things I had never really registered before when watching the video. Like, I saw things zooming past but never paid them much mind but once I was going through this video frame by frame and recreating everything in the shot, it became very important to get it all right and suddenly I noticed everything. Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 52: Shot 92 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | This was a shot that I had to think about quite a bit to figure out how to pull it off. With so much movement happening between the Chief and the Dock Worker, I knew that they couldn’t be on the same layer so I had them both on their own layer above the background and I would have to take the Chief’s layer off to move the Dock Worker and then put the Chief’s layer back on, matching it up EXACTLY where it was and then move the Chief until he grabs a hold of the Dock Worker, when they’d be on the same layer. To be honest, I was surprised at how well it ended up looking in the end and it’s a shot that I’m really proud of. Plus the background was a lot of fun to put together. I had to add one of the pieces of garbage afterwards with a green screen because they run behind it and I didn’t want to add it while I was animating because it would’ve been yet ANOTHER layer that I’d have to take off and put back on.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 51: Shot 91 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | This shot is a good example of how I would rather have things look like they’re handmade rather than perfect. While I do use a Cricut cutter to cut most of the characters and props, most of the backgrounds are done once the shot is set up. Instead of just drawing the lines of the garage door I cut out strips of paper and taped them down…they’re not straight or even the same size but I think it adds more to the scene than to have them all perfect. Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 50: Shots 89-90 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | In Shot 89, the difference between the original plaid shirt and the newly developed way of doing it is apparent. Using the different angles of the box is something that I didn’t think would’ve been such a big deal but it’s a really great way to sell the idea that the box is being thrown at the Chief and that he hits it away from him. If you have an eagle eye, you’ll be able to see the one-frame appearance of the tweezers again (oops). Shot 90 posed a problem because of how much movement there is with the Bad Guy behind the Chief as he reacts to getting hit with the box. At first I was just going to have the Chief on a piece of glass over the Dock Worker and picking it up and putting it back down, which is something that I’ve done in the past, but decided to try doing the Dock Worker on his own and then animating the Chief on green screen and put them together after. I wasn’t sure if it would look right of if the timing would be off but once I got them both finished and put them together I was shocked at how well they play off of each other and it looks like they’re in the same scene!Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time""I'm Home'"Mystic Moody"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 49: Shot 88 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | This was my first attempt at making a plaid shirt and it was trickier than I expected but also had room for improvement (as you’ll see in future shots with plaid shirts). It all comes down to cutting out the red shirt, sticking it on a white shirt that has already been marked with blue so they all match up. I also had to create the Chief’s legs and shoes and shoot them really close to the camera to give the vibe that he was running past the camera towards the Dock Worker with the plaid shirt.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time""Supafly"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 48: Shots 86-87 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | I really love the look of Shot 86: the three of them in the car driving past the camera is so iconic. It’s also very similar to Shot 22 so I knew that I needed to do something better this time around. Because a fisheye lens was used in the original, I tried to get the same effect but practically by actually bending the car and the guys in it to give it the fisheye look. The drawback to this is that I had to use my hand to keep it in place and try to have it “roll” across the screen. If I did it again, I would figure out a way to keep it steadier but overall I think this method got the point across and it looks better than it did for Shot 22, which was all I was going for. Shot 87 was a much easier shot to get and only had to move the Chief from behind the wall which was pretty straightforward. Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 47: New Studio & Shot 85 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Welcome to the new studio! It’s great to have a room that’s specifically made for stop motion! (well, it’s actually just a windowless room in the basement but it happens to be perfect for stop motion - what are the odds?!) And Shot 85 is a great shot to jump into in the new place. I used the original sized dummy and added a little cap on his head specifically so it could fall off when he hits the pavement. I created the background and had it move up as the dummy fell down and it was great to finally be shooting in the new place! I really love this new studio and can’t wait to shoot the rest of Stop Motion Sabotage here and other projects in the future that I don’t even know about yet!Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFramesMusic:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 46: Shots 83-84 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Shots 83 and 84 have some bigger implications than just being two really fun shots that I’ve been looking forward to getting to: these were the last two shots I animated in the original “studio” (ie: the back bedroom that I had to share with the litterboxes) and therefore they felt a little heavier than usual. The entire project has been animated in that room and I wasn’t sure how I’d feel about wrapping it all up here and moving to the new studio in the house. So for Shot 83 I had originally made a “dummy” that was based on the push in so it was WAAAAAAY too big and I had to improvise a new one on the spot and made a tiny version of it, which, in the end, looks much funnier to me. Shot 84 was one that I had been looking forward to making for a long time because of the cool characters and the super long background and it was as much fun to animate as I had hoped. The Rookie does a quick move at one point because of the way the camera moves in the original shot and if I did it over again, I wouldn’t have that little speed-up added in, but, alas, as far as the final shot in the old studio goes, I’m very happy with it. And I’m very happy that I was able to use this room as a studio for as long as I did. Even sharing it with litter boxes couldn’t take away the happiness and pleasure it was to work on this project there. Now I’m on to (slightly) bigger and (very much) better things in the new studio. I can’t wait to show it off!Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFramesMusic:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 45: Shots 81-82 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Shot 81 is a good example of making stuff that will only be seen for a fraction of a second but if it’s not there, it will be noticeably missing. I’m talking about the trees, the lamp post and the logo of the company on the building that’s in the shape of the USA in red, white and blue (appropriately enough). Shot 82 has three layers (bars in the foreground, the Rookie in the middle ground and the red car in the background) and is made by putting the bars way up high and close to the camera to blur it out and give some depth to the shot, then the Rookie in the middle and the red car in the very bottom.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFramesMusic:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 44: Shots 79-80 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | One thing I’m often dealing with is how to make things feel like they’re in a three dimensional space while all laying flat on a table and Shot 79 was one of those shots with the Bad Guy swinging his knife at Cochese. I used different hands and knives with different angles to try and sell the idea that he’s swinging the knife and it turned out to be one of the smoothest shots so far and I was really happy with how it turned out. Shot 80 was in the same vein as Shot 75 so I went with the black and white feel again and made sure to have Cochese’s foot not quite hit the Bad Guy just like in the original video, which is a genius thing to keep in. This was a much easier shot than Shot 75 because it’s so much smaller and the background doesn’t move at all. Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time""Represent""Roughneck"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 43: Shots 76-78 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | For Shot 76, the main thing I was trying to figure out was how to make it look like the Bad Guy was reaching into his jacket to grab the knife and the best way I could think to do it was to make his hand smaller and smaller as he reached in and I was happy with how it turned out! I also used one of the light posts from Shot 75 to be the shadow of the light post on the ground. Shot 77 was so quick that seeing the knife come out of the handle is pretty much lost in the motion, which is fine because that’s how it is in the original shot as well. I used different thicknesses of the knife for Shot 78 with the Bad Guy waiving the knife over his head and I feel like it really gives the idea that the knife is actually moving around. Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFramesMusic:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time""30 Something"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 42: Shot 75 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Although this shot isn’t done in black and white, it has that look to it, but I had originally made the characters in full colour but it just didn’t look right. So I decided to make everything in black, white and grey to match the vibe of the original shot. Also in the original, there are some film imperfections that appear so I did my best to recreate them as well…plus if you look closely my tweezers make a quick appearance but because of the film pops, they blend in quite nicely! Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFramesMusic:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time""Mystic Moods"
Making Of Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 41: Shots 73-74 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Shot 73 was a fun shot to make because of the movement of the Rookie’s arm going into the bag for a donut and I thought that it looked really smooth. But the part that I really like is the piece of hair that comes in on the left side for a few frames. I’m not sure who it is or why it happens but I knew that I wanted to incorporate it into my shot as well and it always makes me laugh. For Shot 74, I had initially made a mouth for the Rookie but when I started to animate, it just didn’t feel right and didn’t fit with the vibe of the video so I animated him without a mouth and, although it might look a little weird, I think it works.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFrames Music:Donny Yonder & The Beatchef“Goodbye To Time""Supafly""Roughneck""Represent"
Making Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 40: Shots 71-72 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Shot 71 was kind of like an updated version of Shot 35 where the Rookie and Cochese are spinning the car in circles. The big difference between the two shots is the detail in the characters which really shows how things have changed since the “old days”. And the background is much bigger this time around. Shot 72 is another shot that’s pretty straight forward in the action so I did my best to make sure the details were as on point as they could be. I wish I knew what the picture was in the little frame on the Chief’s desk.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFramesMusicDonny Yonder & The Beaches“Goodbye To Time”"Don't Try""Mess Around:"30 Something""Arc 80"
Making Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 39: Shots 69-70 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | I created all of Shot 69 as I was making it so it was kind of a return to the start of this project when I made everything by hand. But to be honest I still make almost all of the backgrounds by hand once I see the characters in front of the lens. And speaking of the old days, Shot 70 is almost exactly like Shot 4 so I dug up the car from Shot 4 and made a new background. It was cool to go back in the archives and pull out this gem from the first shot that really kinda blew my mind when it actually worked out.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFramesMusicDonny Yonder & The Beaches“Goodbye To Time”"I'm Hope""Roughneck"
Making Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 38: Shots 67-68 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | The Chief’s title card was very straightforward and had no real background. I set the lights up so they would shine off of the Chief’s glasses and had to change the background from black to grey so he didn’t blend in with it. Shot 68 was another shot that was done on layers of glass to make it work…one of the cool details is that the side mirror has been ripped off the car and that’s something I had never noticed before in the original video. Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFramesMusicDonny Yonder & The Beaches“Goodbye To Time”
Making Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 37: Shots 65-66 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Shot 65 is pretty straight forward so, again, I put effort into the background to really make the scene look like the original. This was the shot where I learned how to make train tracks efficiently and it really came in handy in the future. I really had no idea how to handle Shot 66…I had no real idea how to make The Chief slide across the hood of the car. In the end I had The Chief slide across a piece of glass that was above the car and it shocked me that it actually worked. Also, check out the yellow on the light on the top of the car flashing. Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFramesMusicDonny Yonder & The Beaches“Goodbye To Time”
Making Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 36: Shots 63-64 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Shot 63 was the first time I tried to add a lot of depth to the shot by adding many levels to the background, all moving at different speeds. I kind of messed up on the speeds but it was a great lesson in what I wanted to do in the future to add more life and detail to my shots. Shot 64 was the Vic Colfari as Bobby, “The Rookie” title screen so I tried to put in as many details as I could for the freeze frame. The one thing I missed that I wish I had put in is the Rookie’s wedding ring.Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFramesMusicDonny Yonder & The Beaches“Goodbye To Time”
Making Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 35: Shots 61-62 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Shot 61, The Nathan Wind as Cochese scene, was a pretty straight forward shot with the titles cut out and shot on green screen and really had no moving parts. But Shot 62, had a lot of stuff in the background that had to be made which was really great because I love to add stuff to these shots to really pay tribute to the original shot. One thing in Shot 62 that’s a bit weird is that there’s a person standing in the background and in the freeze frame I used to model all the background stuff it looked like they were holding a bowl of popcorn, which they obviously aren’t, but when I made the person I gave them a bowl of popcorn and a cup of pop for the hell of it. Did you notice before I told you?Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFramesMusicDonny Yonder & The Beaches“Goodbye To Time”
Making Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 34: Shot 59-60 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Shot 59 was another one that used different layers to give the impression that Cochese was jumping from building to building and we are looking up at him and it was a pretty straight forward shot that didn't take too long but looks pretty sweet. Shot 60 was a shot that I have been looking forward to because of all the background detail and also because undercover Cochese looks so cool. I also learned a better way to have the characters walk which looks more realistic and smooth which I can't wait to use on future shots!Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFramesMusicDonny Yonder & The Beaches“Goodbye To Time”
Making Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 33: Shot 57-58 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Both of these shots were a lot of fun and quick to pull off which was nice after the magnum opus that was Shot 56. For each of these shots I used clear plastic wrap to give the illusion of water and it's one of the most accurate portrayals that I've come across in this project. For Shot 57 as they fall into the pool, I removed pieces of them to make it seem like they're being submerged and the plastic wrap really gave the vibe of water being splashed. For Shot 58 I wrapped the lens in plastic wrap and also used it over top of the characters to give it that dreamy, underwater effect that's done in the video and I think that it really turned out great! I love working with real world things found around the house to pull off these illusions!Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFramesMusicDonny Yonder & The Beaches“Goodbye To Time”
Making Stop Motion Sabotage Episode 32: Shot 56 Corduroy Frames 2025-09-30 | Okay, kids, this was the shot that I was most worried about. It's the shot that when I first got the idea to create this video made me think that it was impossible to make...but I couldn't stop thinking about it and eventually just figured that hopefully I would learn enough in the previous 55 shots that I would be able to make this one. It took WEEKS of planning because there are so many moving parts...not only the characters but each layer of the set is also moving in different directions at different times...plus we had to go from a small Sir Stewart Wallace to a big Sir Stewart Wallace as the Rookie passed over him. My wife, Nicole, helped me with this shot and also animated all of Sir Stewart Wallace's movements (could I say "Sir Stewart Wallace" more in this write up?!) and she did a great job. In the end, I'm very happy and proud of this shot because I feel like it all came together and looks pretty rad! Also, it showed me that I have, indeed, learned from the previous 55 shots and used everything to pull this one off. The original shot is hectic, fast and crazy and that's exactly how it felt to make this shot in stop motion. I hope you all dig the process...cuz it's a bit of a longer one!Please feel free to Buy Me A Coffee, if you'd like:buymeacoffee.com/CorduroyFramesMusicDonny Yonder & The Beaches“Goodbye To Time”
