This is my first video of 3D animation using plasticine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb4zIyIF4qY&feature=youtu.be
The first thing we did when we started using clay was we tried to make a morph. Because I have never tried making a morph before it was difficult. Instead of doing each body parts separately because they wouldn't stick, it is easier to use a block of plasticine and mold the body parts so that they wouldn't fall off. I tried my best but my morph wouldn't stand up because of the weight of it, so to make it stand up i tried putting wire in it to make it stand up, but it just made it worse. I put it in the tin and Adam said it could be a Davros Morph because it looked similar to the character Davros from 'Doctor Who' which is half human and half Dalek. It stuck so we used it our animation.
For this clay animation we had my Davros Morph, Adam's snail and Aaron's elephant. We came up with the idea of the elephant and snail playing football and Davros Morph coming into the scene and scaring the elephant and then hiding behind the snail, but then Davros Morph came behind them both the elephant ran away and Davros Morph kills the snail and then we zoomed in on Davros Morph and he started laughing evilly. As a group we work well together and came up with a great idea for the clay animation. Even though my morph wouldn't stand up we came up with a solution for the problem and it worked.
We used IStopMotion to create the clay animation like you would with any other type of animation, to me it easy to use because I used it a lot last year. I made a clay animation last year but i think that the one I did last year was a lot better. Instead of using Final Cut Express to edit it I used iMovie which is a new software to me but the more I have used it the better I have become it, I added all the sound from iMovie made it neater by adding a title screen and credits.
Our inspirations from 'morph' which was a clay animation on Take Hart, Hartbeat and SMart we got asked to make our own because 'morph' was also a stop motion animation.
Cut out animation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skxBiOdpXyA&feature=plcp click the link to view the video.
We drew some pictures of what animation we wanted to create so we had a think and we did a fish jumping out of his bowl into a tank with a shark. So we drew the goldfish and the goldfish bowl and then we used an A4 piece of paper for the tank and then drew a shark. We cut them all out and then did a background for the cut outs where we drew like a telephone table for the goldfish bowl and drew a desk type thing for the tank.
We used istopmotion to create the animation with a Sony DV camera and moved the images ever so slightly for every frame so that it ran as smooth as possible so it didn't look jumpy.
We then exported it using quick time so that it was the best quality possible.
We then went onto imovie to edit it and to add some sound into our animation so it wasn't just plain and quite. So we added a munching sound for when thew shark ate the fish and when the goldfish was jumping in and out of tanks we added a splashing noise.
The finally we added it onto YouTube so that everybody can see our work.
Today was a good practice for creating animations, it wasn't as difficult for me because I did animation's last year just like the one I did today.
