I have long been a fan of stop-motion animator Alex Kropinak and the work he has done on Marvel.com’s ‘Marvel What The–?!‘ series as well as the Minimate animations he has done for DST.   It was a real thrill to get to meet him in person a couple of years ago while in NYC for Toy Fair.

Alex and have been talking about doing some projects for AFi.  This is the first of them.   NECA has been doing a Planet of the Apes reveal every week as part of their “Monkey Mondays.”   Even though it is late in the day this is a Monkey Monday of our own.

Alex has painstaking created a stop-motion Dawn of the Planet of the Apes teaser trailer using the new NECA Dawn of the Planet of the Apes action figures.  As you can see the results are spectacular!  The sets he builds, the expressions he creates and the emotions he is able to convey are fantastic.

Please share this video far and wide!  I’d love to see Alex’s handiwork go viral!

These samples provided by NECA.  Thank you to Alex for letting us share your work.