--- title: Honda Ads in Stop Motion Animation by PES Film description: PES makes Honda ad Paper in stop motion animation canonical: https://time.com/4042885/honda-stop-motion-animation-ad-paper-pes-film/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-21T17:21:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:59.623Z og:title: Watch This Crazy New Honda Ad Driven by Stop Motion Animation og:description: Showing the road from blueprint to highway og:url: https://time.com/4042885/honda-stop-motion-animation-ad-paper-pes-film/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf82a4765a9b9e721/6988648b428a9e2df1ccf39e/screen-shot-2015-09-21-at-12-14-14-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-09-21 at 12.14.14 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This Crazy New Honda Ad Driven by Stop Motion Animation twitter:description: Showing the road from blueprint to highway twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf82a4765a9b9e721/6988648b428a9e2df1ccf39e/screen-shot-2015-09-21-at-12-14-14-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch This Crazy New Honda Ad Driven by Stop Motion Animation  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 21, 2015 5:21 PM UTC   by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 21, 2015 5:21 PM UTC Stop-motion animation artist PES is behind the wheel of a new Honda ad featuring thousands of hand-drawn illustrations of the brand’s cars and motorcycles. To produce each take, designers held pieces of paper up to the camera. “A lot of the drawings that you see in the film — especially in the second half of the spot — can only be seen by one particular angle by a camera,” stop motion animation artist PES (born Adam Pesapane) says in [a video ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tpBc8kmuJY)about how the ad was made. And, he adds, “the engine goes from one vehicle to the next” to show how the brand’s models have changed over time. PES received a [2013 Academy Award nomination](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNJdJIwCF%5FY) for Best Short Film (Animated) for “Fresh Guacamole,” which showed the avocado dip being made with green clay and dice. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4042885/honda-stop-motion-animation-ad-paper-pes-film/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4042885/honda-stop-motion-animation-ad-paper-pes-film/"},"headline":"Watch This Crazy New Honda Ad Driven by Stop Motion Animation","datePublished":"2015-09-21T17:21:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:59.623Z","description":"Showing the road from blueprint to highway","url":"https://time.com/4042885/honda-stop-motion-animation-ad-paper-pes-film/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Business topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf82a4765a9b9e721/6988648b428a9e2df1ccf39e/screen-shot-2015-09-21-at-12-14-14-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf82a4765a9b9e721/6988648b428a9e2df1ccf39e/screen-shot-2015-09-21-at-12-14-14-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-09-21 at 12.14.14 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4042885/honda-stop-motion-animation-ad-paper-pes-film/","name":"Watch This Crazy New Honda Ad Driven by Stop Motion Animation"}}]}] ```