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CLAYMATION. With Just Clay And A Camera, You Can Create A Whole New World!. Draw up some clay characters (don’t make them too hard to make) Get one colour of clay and make a prototype After that its time to make a real one.
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CLAYMATION With Just Clay And A Camera, You Can Create A Whole New World!
Draw up some clay characters (don’t make them too hard to make) • Get one colour of clay and make a prototype • After that its time to make a real one
Before doing any of this, you should practice making shapes with different sizes(rember to make different colours by mixing them) • It takes years of practice to make a claymation like Wallace and Gromit so keep trying
Armatures are like skletons for your clay characters to help them move without brakeing • Professional armatures are really dear so make one yourself out of coat hanger wire
Then you get a camera and take one picture of your character • You slightly move your character and take another picture • You keep moving it and taking pictures until it reaches it’s destination
When you play all of the pictures back together in order (WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!!) • And your character(s) appears to be moving. • You can find lots of free stop-motion programs all over the web. Such as: Monkey Jam and Windows Movie Maker if you have a windows computer • We’d recommend Windows Movie Maker because we haven’t had any problems with it. But whatever works for you.
You can also find lots of other stop-motion programs on the web that start from $70. Still we’d recommend free programs, but if your willing to pay, then go right ahead! On page 5 of this power point, we have a picture of the whole layout of Stop-motion pro. • The top picture is Windows Movie Maker and the bottom picture is when your first putting on your pictures on Monkey Jam
Try making your own stopmotions and don’t get annoyed if it dosen’t work, it takes time!!! • It took 6 years for the Wallace and Gromit creator, Nick Park to make their first film!
It’s really fun when it works! Try making your own YouTube account to store all your animations
Once you make your character, you don’t have to be finished. You can always keep adding to it or taking things off
Now, sit back, relax and celebrate that you made your first movie!
CREDITS • Text and pictures by: Glen Walker and Karl O’ Rowe • Ideas by Glen and Karl