This is embroidery taken to the next level! New media artist Huw Messie plays with the ideas of stop motion animation and embroidery and marries them into an experimental art: moving embroidery.
Messie started making stop-motion animations when he was just seven years old. Now, after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art, he decided to apply some of the work he did in machine embroidery to stop motion.
The artworks may look easy to create at first glance, but the process of creating Mussie’s moving embroideries employs a lot of knowledge on algorithms and just a lot of patience. Since the artist uses a machine for embroidery, he programmed an image processor that could convert any image to a recognizably similar stitch path. The program helps Mussie determine how he would command the machine to alter the stitches over time to create specific actions or movements for the animations.
Check more of his work here!
Animation above: Netting Carriage (2021) stop motion animation embroidery by Huw Messie
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Signal Storage (2021) animated embroidery by Huw Messie
Perpetual Insufficiency (20021) stop motion animated embroidery by Huw Messie