What is the secret hidden in the stop motion movie that reproduces the intro where the Netflix logo is displayed with yarn?
In 2022, stop-motion animation creator Kevin Parry posted a ``movie that reproduces the Netflix intro with $30 (about 4,500 yen) worth of yarn.'' The full version of the movie on YouTube has been viewed over 600,000 times, and the digest version of YouTube shorts and other videos published on Mr. Parry's SNS etc. have been viewed over 50 million times and received a high response, but in reality, this movie is a physical Mr. Parry confesses that it is impossible to reproduce and contains many 'big lies'.
I Lied About Recreating the Netflix Intro
Recreating the Netflix Intro with $30 Worth of Yarn - YouTube
What Mr. Parry tried to reproduce with stop-motion animation is the Netflix intro where the red 'N' logo is displayed, as shown on the left side of the image below.
The N logo opens up and unravels into fine threads.
The unraveled lines change colorfully.
To recreate this intro with yarn, I bought yarn in a variety of colors. The total price of the yarn is about 4,500 yen, as mentioned in the movie title.
Netflix's intro has a black background and the camera is fixed, so we first created a special stand.
Then we created the letter N using red yarn.
Attach the N yarn to a post of varying length, fix the camera directly above it, and start shooting.
By bringing the N yarn closer to the camera, the video was shot so that the letter N appeared close up. Then, to recreate the intro, we will dismantle the letter N as it closes up.
We made careful adjustments to recreate the scene at the end of the intro where the letter N unravels into threads of various colors.
At the end of the movie, you can see the stop motion animation that was actually created. Red N logo reproduced with wool.
The logo disappears as it becomes closer.
When expanded to fill the screen, it changes to yarn of various colors. According to the movie, it took about 3 days to shoot a movie of just 3 seconds because the thread was moved one frame at a time.
The movie has been viewed more than 50 million times in total, and it even caught the attention of Netflix, who contacted Parry, and David Fincher, the director of the Netflix original animation
However, in February 2024, about a year after posting the movie, Mr. Parry posted on his blog, ``I lied that I reproduced the Netflix intro.'' According to Mr. Parry, most of the movie is a lie, it is not a stop motion animation made only with still images, and even the production time and the cost of the yarn in the title are not true.
As shown in the movie, Mr. Parry set up a special stand and background, created an N logo with wool, and actually started working on stop motion animation. However, when the animation progressed about 5 frames, it took 5 minutes to move the thread 1 frame according to the original intro, so he felt that ``this animation is impossible.'' Therefore, Mr. Parry created a digital animation by moving and changing the color on the computer based on the photo taken, and completed the final ``fake stop motion animation''.
In the movie, the following scene where ``trial and error is being done to arrange the threads to reproduce the scene where the N logo unravels into various colors at the end of the intro'' actually seems to be moving the threads randomly. It seems that they just shot a time-lapse video and made it into a movie.
As a result, in the movie, he says, ``It took about three days to shoot the whole movie to move the thread one frame at a time,'' but in reality, it was completed in one day by digital processing. Furthermore, although the title says ``30 dollars (about 4,500 yen) worth of yarn,'' it actually cost more than 100 dollars (about 15,000 yen), but ``cheaper is more interesting.'' Mr. Parry said that he wrote it as a low number.
Parry says, ``In my experience, about half of all artistic projects hit a ``trough of despair,'' where imagination outstrips ability and the realization of something impossible is possible. It requires thinking outside the box and switching methods and tools, and beyond that valley creativity flourishes.Creative success doesn't necessarily mean sticking to a plan.''From stop-motion animation to digital processing. He expressed his satisfaction in completing a movie that successfully reproduced the Netflix intro by making the switch.
On the other hand, Parry adds, 'It's good to overcome the valley of despair, but it's not good to joke about how you got out of it.' Mr. Parry has previously posted `` trick movies that fool viewers '' and their explanations on his YouTube channel, and talked about the fun of ``fun lies where viewers can participate in finding the lies.'' Masu. However, there are some uninteresting lies that the viewer is simply fooled by, and this movie falls under the category of uninteresting lies, so he says that there were points that were irresponsible and that he should reflect on.
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