Created using stop-motion photography and a whole lot of time and energy, the PEN Story video clearly pays homage to the work of Japanese artist Takeuchi Taijin. Takeuchi-san directed the video "A Wolf Loves Pork", made using over 1,300 photo prints and now having drawn over two million views on YouTube. Olympus' PEN Story is no less complex, with the company noting that it required the capture of some 60,000 pictures, from which 9,600 prints were made.

Both videos tell a tale using the same technique, with a stream of photo prints overlaid around an apartment, and animated to serve as a pathway along which the narrative unfolds. In the case of "A Wolf Loves Pork", a boy in a wolf costume chases a papier-mâché pig through a Japanese town, and the video is accompanied by the music of Nariaki Miyata. Olympus' PEN Story applies a similar technique with a few extra twists to follow the life of a young boy as his life unfolds. For the musical accompaniment, Olympus chose "Down Below" by Johannes Stankowski, with both the full song and a ringtone version being available for download as free MP3s on the Pen Story website.

To view the videos, watch "A Wolf Loves Pork" on YouTube, and "The PEN Story" on Olympus Europe's website...