Art post: Dot, Aardman Animation's smallest stop-motion heroine

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Nokia on YouTube: Dot. The world's smallest stop-motion animation character shot on a Nokia N8

Professor Fletcher's invention of the CellScope, which is a Nokia device with a microscope attachment, was the inspiration for a teeny-tiny film created by Sumo Science at Aardman. It stars a 9mm girl called Dot as she struggles through a microscopic world. All the minuscule detail was shot using CellScope technology and a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics.
Alan Boyle notes that the cell phone camera isn't the only thing remarkable in Animation in a micro-Wonderland. Dot herself was created with a 3-D printer.