Claymation workshop

This morning we were shown an animation on YouTube called ‘Trap door’ this animation was well created because they got away with not moving the character though he did a lot of talking so this made it seem more interesting. We gained a lot of inspiration from watching the video so I and samy decided that our characters were going to be monsters.

When we were going to make our monsters we had to think carefully about the way we wanted them look, what colours to use and how they would move.

Once we had made the bodies of both our characters we then had to think about what their faces were going to look like, my character had one eye bigger than the other and his arms were like boxing gloves, he had little pink antlers on his yellow head.

Samy’s character was a big pink blob with brown eyes and a wide mouth for eating; his special feature was that he had a hammer finger on his head which he used to kill the other character in the animation.

When we finally got round to filming the animation using stop-motion pro, we couldn’t find a background suitable and then we found a paper box and put some paper in front of it to make a white background.

The lighting was just right as we were near light so it wasn’t dark but I was shining on our characters so we couldn’t see them.

We tried to focus the camera but we couldn’t so we just waited for the camera to get into focus by-itself.

The video was about 30 seconds long and we were very impressed with what we had created.