World's smallest stop-motion animation!

I love this tiny tiny little stop-motion animation. It was shot using a Nokia N8 smart phone equipped with a CellScope, a diagnostic-quality microscope that was invented by Daniel Fletcher at the University of California, Berkeley. The CellScope allows a doctor working anywhere there is a phone service to capture and transmit images of blood samples anywhere in the world. The technology could help diagnose disease in developing countries where it can be difficult to access doctors and laboratories.

The film tells the story of Dot, a girl who just 9 millimeters tall. She wakes up in a world that seems to be unraveling. Fleeing an encroaching wave of loose threads, Dot runs across coins, pins, nuts and bolts and jumps on a bumblebee to fly away. Finally she saves herself by knitting the threads into a sleeping bag. Because Dot is so tiny, her body was cast using 3D printing in a variety of different positions, which were then used to animate her movement.