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- One
of the most famous was Art Clokey who made
127 six minute films with his character
Gumby and Gumby's horse Pokey. Will Vinton
was an animator who made all of his props,
sets and characters out of clay. He
started making Clay Animated movies in
1974 with his friend Bob Gardiner when
they were in college. Together they made
the movie "Closed Mondays'' which won an
Academy Award. Later he started his own
studio where he made the movies "Rip Van
Winkle'' "Martin the Cobbler" and "The
Adventures of Mark Twain."
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- Peter
Lord owns an animation studio in England
called Aardman Animations. He and co-owner
Brian Sibley started making claymation
videos when they were twelve years old.
Together they have made the movies
"Creature Comforts,""Wats Pig," "Adam," as
well as the three Wallace and Gromit
movies "A Grand Day Out" "The Wrong
Trousers" and "A Close Shave" and many
others.
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- A.
Download and install Frame
Thief
on your computer.
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- B.
Read through Getting
Started.
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- C.
View a professional movie which use
claymation such as:
Chicken
Run.
Can you think of any others?
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- D.
Check out some Claymation videos by
students. Wait for the movies to download
before starting!
- M
& M's Entrance, The
Hunted
- Potato
Monster
- 2002
Winter Olympics
- Snowboarding
- Snow
Trip
- Spark
Presents
- Sunflower
- Volcano
- The
Worm
- Clay
Mini Movies
- Hockey,
Skiing &
Bobsleding
- Bluesoup
& Inflatable
- Claymation
Videos by students at Carroll High
School
- Logan
& James WES
- Amy
& Jannel WES
- Kiefer
& Alex
WES
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- How
to create:
- 1.
Develop an
idea.
- Take
Notes - Write down your thoughts on the
plot, the scenes, the characters, and any
extra details that come to you as you are
writing. KEEP IT SIMPLE! The shortest and
simplest concepts are the easiest to
animate. Limit yourself to one or two
characters, so you can concentrate on the
DETAILS.
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- Create
a Storyboard
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first step in making a movie is writing
and making the storyboard. A storyboard is
like a comic strip. All the scenes are
drawn out in comic strip form and written
underneath each picture is what the
characters say and any other audio. Once
you have your storyboard, your set and
your characters you are ready to make your
movie.
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- 2.
Step Two - Create the
Characters
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- 3.
Step Three - Build the
Background
- The
Background for your clay animation can be
just about anything.
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- 4.
Step Four - Shoot the
Shots
- Connect
the video camera to the computer. Mount
the camera on a tripod - You don't want
the camera to move at all during the
picture taking process.
On
the computer, open the Frame Thief
software.
Place
the background so that it completely fills
the frame for the pictures you'll
take. Position
the characters where you'll want them then
click no. 4 or press the space bar 4 times
for each frame.
- After
you take each picture, slightly move your
characters into position for the next
shot. Each picture you take will become a
frame in your movie. Clay animation looks
good at a frame rate as low as six frames
per second.
Your
animation must be at least 40 frames.
Choose Replay...Loop. Export your
animation to a Quicktime
movie.
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- 5.
Step Five - Make a Movie
- Open
iMovie and select your animation. Edit you
animation adding titles and sound.
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- See
Theme
Pages,
WebQuest
Page
or WebQuest
Collection
for resources
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