Take a look at this stop-motion animated ad for MTV Brazil's 21st birthday which features bursting balloons filmed like a flip book.

Created by ParanoidBR director Dulcidio Caldeira, the piece apparently took twenty four straight hours to shoot all the multiple takes.

To make the film, the balloons were fastened onto a two hundred metre long rail, and lined up via laser guide.

"To achieve a moving picture effect, ten balloons had to be popped per second, or six hundred balloons per minute," says Caldeira says.

Neat.