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The iconic opening sequence from Buffy the Vampire Slayer gets recreated in pitch perfect claymation.

The recreated opening was made by artist Joseph Brett, who originally posted the sequence on Instagram on Halloween 2024. The sequence was accompanied with the caption, "This is the best thing I've ever made," and was received with widespread acclaim from commenters. Both the claymation recreation and the video of the original intro that it's based on can be viewed below.

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Animator and director Joesph Brett recreated the opening sequence of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a claymation short and fans are obsessed with it. The stop-motion video, posted on Brett’s Instagram page months ago to celebrate Halloween, is a shot-by-shot recreation of the Season 3 introduction.

The opening sequence would slightly change throughout the series, incorporating clips from upcoming episodes. However, the core elements and iconic shots of the show remained the same. Fans of the series will note that the intro music also changed slightly post-Season 3.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was an American teen horror drama about Buffy Summers, a young girl chosen to seek out and destroy vampires, demons, and other forces of darkness. Sarah Michelle Gellar starred as the iconic monster hunter herself. The series was based on the film of the same title, which starred Kristy Swanson. The series premiered in 1997 and ran for seven seasons.

An artist has recreated the Buffy the Vampire Slayer opening credits in claymation. In the over two decades since it wrapped up, Buffy has become a cult classic TV show. The series tells the story of a young woman who discovers that her destiny is to kill vampires and other terrifying creatures. It was created by visionary Joss Wheedon, and ran for seven seasons from 1997 to 2003. Buffy the Vampire Slayer featured an iconic leading cast including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head, David Boreanaz, and Seth Green.

Artist Joseph Brett has recently created a claymation reimagining of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer credits sequence.

Specifically, the stop-motion scene captures the Buffy the Vampire season 3 credits, which feature some of the titular character's most iconic kills. Even the show title is set against a clay backdrop moon to open the sequence. The live-action characters are replaced by stop-motion...

Evoking the twisted eeriness of classic folk horror but with a contemporary twist, Joseph Brett’s Stones is the story of a brother and sister whose family reunion at a stone circle becomes interrupted by an uninvited guest. Realised through the medium of stop motion animation, Brett’s film embraces the uncanny nature of the form with silicone-style puppets that bring a childlike yet unsettling sensibility to its tale of nostalgia, home and the connections we share with our local landscapes. Dn is delighted to premiere Stones today on the May 1st, the day used to commemorate the pagan festival of Beltane, alongside a in-depth conversation with Brett about his journey creating the film across lockdown, the creative marriage he sees between folk horror and stop motion, and the desire he and Writer Bec Boey (the other half of their Production Company Jackdaw Films) had to alter notions of representation within popular folk aesthetics.