Claymation animation evaluation (Sue)

Description of how you create a claymation:

Claymation animation is a form of stop motion animation in which the characters, background or prop is able to be manipulated to make adjustments to it’s shape, size or position and is more commonly made from a malleable substance like clay or other dough-like substances.

Claymation, a lot like cutout animation uses slight changes between frames to give the illusion of a moving image. However, instead of using paper as the main resource, clay is used and shaped to be used as characters, backgrounds etc. to help tell a story. Different types of clay animation can range from Freeform, Strata-cut animation or Clay painting

Examples of different animated films and tv shows with the technique:

·          Pingu

·          Kli-Kla-Klawitter

·          Wallace & Gromit

·          Flushed Away (Feature film)

Strengths and weaknesses of this technique

Claymation has many advantages for example, it’s very fun to do and if you have planned it properly then it can be done very quickly and efficiently. It can be done at your at your own pace and in groups is easily formed through simple ideas and knowledge from each other.

It can be related to a concept in any topic and can be expanded and deepened to provide higher insights to story lines and plots

However, It’s easy to encounter audio problems due to how hard it is to time the movements and be hard to edit the animation.

The claymation overall is a very fun and incorporated a lot of teamwork in the group, bringing the best out of us as we enjoyed making and experimenting with the different shapes, styles and techniques used to help tell our story.

If there were anything I could change it would be the audio levels. All together I’ve been highly satisfied with how my group’s Claymation end product looked