Meet Dot: the world's smallest stop-motion animated character. Designed to demonstrate Nokia's latest cutting-edge technology, her filmed tale, above, has set a Guinness World Record.The back story: Dot was shot on the latest Nokia N8 as a means to showcase the smartphone’s 12-megapixel photography capabilities and the CellScope, a Nokia device with a microscope attachment.
Realized by the UK's Aardman Animation, the Oscar-winning creators of the Wallace and Gromit series, the short film was commissioned by Nokia to depict the 9mm character's struggles to navigate a microscopic world.
An impressive technological feat, to be sure. What's next? Nano-level image capture? (See the making of after the jump for more details.)
Not yet. The CellScope is a tiny, microscopic device that attaches to a Nokia handset, for use as life-saving technology. It has helped remotely diagnose fatal diseases in inaccessible regions of third world countries. Carl Zeiss optics also helped capture the miniscule action.
In order to promote these extraordinary micro-technologies to a broader audience, Nokia’s agency W+K hired stop-motion masters Aardman to create and capture Dot's world. The teeny animated film was shot on a set that was only a meter and a half long, with elements painted under a microscope and animated with tweezers.
According to W+K’s Mark McCall and Richard Dorey in the behind-the-scenes look below, “Achieving our goal of setting a world record with a Nokia N8 is the perfect celebration of the campaign’s core message — it's not technology, its what you do with it.”
Dot. The world's smallest stop-motion animation character shot on a Nokia N8
