This dazzling advert for The Great British Bake Off blends stop motion with food photography

"The Great British Bake Off might be Britain's most beloved television show. The baking competition has featured hundreds of cast members, including celebrities and children, with several iterations created for charities like Comic Relief and Stand up to Cancer. Mostly, all of the fun of the TV show is in the amateur bakers, who lead to hilarious muck-ups or pull off amazing cake sculptures."

"Beginning with an egg yolk flying like a comet through a dark void, a cosmic swirl is created, then sprinkled with flour before berries drop into its primordial liquid, breaking the illusion. It's stop motion meets food aesthetics, which seems like a match made in heaven, though that didn't stop the process from being pretty chaotic, and improvisation was key."

"Maybe unsurprisingly food and stop motion don't normally go well together, so we had to do a bit of figuring out as to what we could make with real food and what needed to be inedible, says Isabel. In the end the main set was built with more solid materials like foam, sculpts of cakes and so on, with piped colourful icing details on top to make it look nice and edible."

The Great British Bake Off remains a beloved television show featuring hundreds of cast members, including celebrities and children, and multiple charity iterations such as Comic Relief and Stand Up To Cancer. The show's charm comes from amateur bakers producing both hilarious mishaps and astounding cake sculptures. Blinkink created a stop-motion advert for the show's 16th season titled the 'bakening', starring Isabel Garett. The advert begins with an egg yolk comet forming a cosmic swirl that is sprinkled with flour and berries, blending stop-motion with food aesthetics. Production used solid materials, foam, and cake sculpts with piped icing, requiring improvisation because real food and stop-motion often conflict.

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