Friday Movie Morning with Voltaire

Aurelio Voltaire Hernández, aka Voltaire (whose song video I featured Monday) is not just a musician. He's also a director, stop-motion specialist, author and professor at SVA

Here are a few examples of his stop-motion work: 






I love this style. Transrexia (the second video) reminds me a bit of Clash of the Titans, which really is not surprising considering Sinbad was Voltaire's initial inspiration to start doing what he does. At the tender age of eight. I wish I had the patience to do stop motion because the results can really be beautiful. I am, however, so happy that the art hasn't been put to the grave yet (this year's Coraline was beautiful beyond words and I highly recommend it...which is saying a lot because I was expecting to hate it going in). 

Voltaire has also done a lot of spots for channels like SciFi, Cartoon Network and TLC:



Hmm.. sensing a theme here...

And finally here is Voltaire's song and video for Happy Birthday (my olde friend):  


I must say that his voice reminds me of a certain skeleton king's. Can you guess to whom I'm referring?