Black and white animation

Bad Apple!


“Bad Apple!!” is a magical piece of stop-motion animation made from 6,566 still photos of printed bitmaps. + Video The creator, Nico Nico Douga user “shige-ruuu,” says he made the video without using photo-editing software. The images were captured with a webcam, and the effects were achieved by changing the camera position and adjusting the focus, brightness, zoom, exposure and gain.

The original stills and music come from this video for the song “Bad Apple!!” (arranged by Masayoshi Minoshima, featuring vocals by nomico) from the Touhou Project game series.

This japanese short animation is all done in black and white. You might think that this black and white animation maybe boring or confusing because many other black and white were boring and confusing when they can't really send the message to the viewers.

In this Bad Apple! animation, we can see that although the whole animation is in black and white but somehow you still can see some 3D among all the characters, and the way the sudden change from an object into another is related and logical.