Taking a sequence of frames, each made as an embroidery design, is a challenging way to make animation. Rather than an animation of the embroidery process, these artists add life to embroidered fabrics.
Here are some examples:
Alexis Sugden has several humorous shorts including animated cats and racoons. This is one of them:
Embroidery animations Alexis Sugden [Instagram]
Minha Yoo made this running horse design that reaches back to the origins of motion pictures with a jockey riding a horse
A running horse embroidery by Minha Yoo [Instagram]
Miracle de Mille (Pauline and César Chevalier) collaborate on a variety of art projects including these animated fabrics.
Delightful Animated Fabrics by Miracle de Mille [Instagram]
Huw Messie has created several bizarre machines using animated embroidery
Bizarre Fabrications Series by Huw Messie huwmessie.com [Instagram]
This is a reflexive embroidery animation. An embroidery animation made of a person making embroidery.
By Phil Archer
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