Bad Apple!! is a piece of stop-motion animation made from 6,566 still photos of printed bitmaps. The creator, Nico Nico Douga user shige-ruuu, says he made the video without using photo-editing software. The images were captured with a webcam, and the effects were achieved by changing the camera position and adjusting the focus, brightness, zoom, exposure and gain. The original stills and music come from the video for the song Bad Apple!! (arranged by Masayoshi Minoshima, featuring vocals by nomico) from the Touhou Project game series.