http://www.hansweise.com/about daily 0.75 2016-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461793559530-IXKMBHWBNT4722U6CV1Q/image-asset.jpeg About Hans Weise at Ernest Shackleton's hut on Cape Royds, Antarctica. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461863958614-K7G7QEXPHAX5X4R12V5U/with+the+cataphiles.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461864772080-VP25XXTT7M1CDNI6VDFX/IMG_0988.JPG About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461864932847-K38W3W6P0WUWOGVI3KSB/IMG_1477.JPG About http://www.hansweise.com/gallery-1 daily 0.75 2017-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1488927499895-PVSHNKPYV630TBBROXB1/image-asset.jpeg Video - Watch Paper Ships and Vikings Set Sail on a Stop Motion Adventure Created for the March, 2017 edition of National Geographic magazine. Stop motion, live action, and visual effects combine to tell the story of how the Vikings built their extraordinary longships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461880574999-UKJ88WSITD3JKCVLO5E8/image-asset.jpeg Video - 40,000 Years of London’s History—Made Entirely of Paper Created for the February, 2016 edition of National Geographic magazine, this film tells 40,000 years of London history in three minutes. And in paper. I made this film with Fernando Baptista (art director and set designer) and Monica Serrano (set construction and After Effects) to help illustrate the breadth of artifacts uncovered beneath the city of London during the excavation for a new rail line. The magazine wanted an animation to accompany the story so we set to work last fall to create a piece that would cover at least 10 periods from the Stone Age to the present day. With a slim budget (i.e., we had to borrow studio space, lights, and camera mounts), we shot over the course of a month using a Canon C100, lite panels, and various small fresnels. Fernando and his team built the sets and characters out of watercolor paper, tissue paper, and foam core (among a few other odds and ends). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461936853217-3TA6JNHXKO4MQDDE16LD/image-asset.jpeg Video - Nat Geo's Most Amazing Photos: Tigers Full episode from the second season of "Nat Geo's Most Amazing Photos." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461882130482-0IDYKDCO9GIA92STJEFK/image-asset.jpeg Video - Frozen in Time: Antarctica's Explorers' Huts Whiskey and all, the wooden dwellings of early explorers have been restored to look as they did during the first treks to the continent in the early 1900s. About a hundred years after Antarctic explorers set up house on the coldest, driest, and windiest place on Earth, conservators have restored four of these landmarks to look as they did in their former heydays. The portable wooden huts, located on Antarctica's Ross Island, gave shelter to well-known British adventurers Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott and their crews. The 20th-century expeditions were the first to explore and study the southernmost continent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461882661952-VTE5BGKTSB066I0JL639/image-asset.jpeg Video - Walking With Giants This was an Emmy-nominated piece that I created with Fernando Baptista for the July, 2012 digital edition of National Geographic magazine. It’s one of Easter Island’s biggest mysteries: How were hundreds of giant statues moved across the landscape centuries ago, over distances as long as 11 miles, by people who lacked both draft animals and wheels? Over the years, many theories were put forward as to how this was actually accomplished but none emerged as the most plausible mode of locomotion until now. In print, it’s nearly impossible to convey an accurate sense of motion, so to illustrate how the giant statues – or moai – may have been moved, I collaborated with staff artist Fernando Baptista, producer Spencer Millsap, and Fanna Gebreyesus to try something new: Create an animated film that would demonstrate how each theory worked. Using hand-painted action figures, miniature clay moai, and an entire Easter Island set made from scratch, we created a three-minute film using digital SLR cameras. Shot over the course of two months, the film required more than 3,000 carefully posed frames to create the final piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461889960416-KITKRB7PB40WEJZPAZJ9/image-asset.jpeg Video - Superjaws This is a film I made about spinosaurus for National Geographic magazine. This piece is about the life-sized model used for the cover of the print edition. Meanwhile, the video itself was used for the cover of the digital edition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461882790690-6ZRCI07FM1XHXS28VRRQ/image-asset.jpeg Video - Trajan's Mysterious Column This video recently received the silver award winner from the Society for News Design. According to the judges, "There is nothing like this. Nobody in news is doing stop-motion like this. Technically the explanation is impressive. It’s a wonderful thing.” This film is a stop-motion animation created for the April, 2015 edition of National Geographic magazine that shows how one of the most impressive Roman monuments was actually built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461882481445-C8QS2S6D4MR18E8CKAF5/image-asset.jpeg Video - Civil War Children Iris Lee Gay Jordan and Fred Upham have something unique in common. Their fathers each served in the U.S. Civil War. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461882754305-98EFCUSUKCBJMXHVJG76/image-asset.jpeg Video - Art of the Collection: The Photography of Rosamond Purcell Crowded with bones and artifacts, the back rooms of natural history collections have become places of fascination for photographer Rosamond Purcell. Each of her remarkable images starts with a specimen "ready to have its picture taken." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461936810945-OL97CM7NV5UXLPBTV3FT/image-asset.jpeg Video - Kodachrome An episode from my series, "NatGeo's Most Amazing Photos." Photographer Steve McCurry is given the last roll of 35mm Kodachrome to shoot whatever he wants to honor the end of this iconic film. I followed Steve from New York to Mumbai and Rajasthan (and finally Kansas) to peer over his shoulder as he shot the last 36 frames. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461866186292-UFJRODM9WS7Y3Y1YYREV/galapagos.jpg Video http://www.hansweise.com/home-2 daily 1.0 2016-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461763522819-4ZDX5OLI8TLRELL7R3SF/IMG_0984.JPG Hans Weise - Adélie penguins, Antarctica. Eggs are just beginning to hatch at the Adélie penguin rookery on Caughley beach at the foot of Mount Bird on Ross Island, Antarctica. A light snow falls on the backs of nesting penguins. Beaufort island is in the distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461763420905-FVHDUD2D6HK272SJXSS9/IMG_8727.JPG Hans Weise - Blue-footed Booby I saw this male Blue-footed Booby, looking like part of a diorama, early in the morning on Floreana island in the Galápagos. He's actually looking to see who's just landed behind him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461763607319-S9KJXW1F395NB7NFIJD9/IMG_8692.JPG Hans Weise - Sea Lion Here, a Galápagos sea lion reconsiders her decision to come ashore at Gardener Bay on Española island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461763554124-BBQ9FKDMJIE7383I2J61/IMG_2394.JPG Hans Weise - The Lazy Tree Near the dunes of Jericoacoara on the north coast of Brazil stands the wind-blown Árvore da Preguiça, or "Lazy Tree." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461704327622-XNZ4U893YLNFI82H3APD/Screen+Shot+2016-04-09+at+11.47.20+PM.png Hans Weise https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461775525072-N5TQHMK6A6W8B7EFP86J/Screen+Shot+2016-04-27+at+12.28.27+PM.png Hans Weise https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461787879779-T8U0SKWOS4M6IDYKXXCY/Screen+Shot+2016-04-27+at+12.26.05+PM.jpg Hans Weise https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461775770068-ZDU5GCLA3NRQGOX3PRPG/Screen+Shot+2016-04-23+at+12.01.03+PM.png Hans Weise https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461776015376-AXO20WIW9LB6CONNRCKZ/Screen+Shot+2016-04-27+at+12.32.50+PM.png Hans Weise http://www.hansweise.com/video daily 0.75 2016-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568aa0dcc21b8690d5c57dfe/1452705658520-8FD1Z4VGP7WF2ZIGNWD6/20140916-squarespace-1555-blur.jpg Video http://www.hansweise.com/contact daily 0.75 2016-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5706c3ec07eaa0b8239983cf/1461886399710-917O6OCBCPAXOKZKP6I4/IMG_8523.JPG Contact http://www.hansweise.com/read-me-shift daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515c7b5ae4b0875140c3d94a/1373494866621-8L8TJSL19SCJDJ7JYPHM/index-collection-read-me-1.jpg Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/515c7b5ae4b0875140c3d94a/1373494887029-4AXRW743FMOYDJKF3T3M/index-collection-read-me-2.jpg Read Me