Stop-Motion Wooden Dummy Is Basically Real-Life Pinocchio

A life-sized wooden man performs a stop-motion dance through the streets of Wales in artist Anton Hecht's new cinematic experiment, Dummy Run Aberystwyth. Hecht crowdsourced his animation process, calling locals over to help him and filmmakers Culture Colony move every foot and finger of the massive sculpture during a shoot that lasted from dawn until dusk one freezing February day.

Produced by the Aberystwyth Arts Centre, the biggest art institution in Wales, Dummy Run Aberystwyth is Hecht's largest animation project to-date, eclipsing past experiments with other unconventional stop-motion mediums like people's hands and flipbooks within library books. Hecht tells The Creators Project that the fusion of public performance and animation seeks to "change the way animation works, pushing how you create motion to the limit."

See more of Anton Hecht's work on his webstie.

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