Time lapse + growing plants? Yes please! These Wild Plants of Japan “action plant” stop motion videos from Odakatoshio are strange and lovely all at once. 

via Pink Tentacle.

Written, directed and animated by Philipp Comarella and Simon Griesser, Much Better Now is the story of how a bookmark finds adventure in an open book.

via ufunk.net

Related viewing: The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore. 

No Noodles!

Small creatures explore and inhabit an even smaller world. A short stop motion film by Tyler Nicolson, music by Chris Adriaanse.

via Colossal.

Created by Matthew Amonson and Jeremy Bronson of Studio Nos for Sesame Workshop, this film about an apple tree uses paper in a subtle and lovely way. They’ve created a few of these stop motion pieces about nature and growth. This one is called Rejuvenation: 

And this one is about frogs: 

A mad scientist is in the middle of making a monster… sort of. A story that flips between two parallel worlds, CREATE is a short stop motion animation by artist, animator, and director Dan MacKenzie.

via Vimeo.