claymation

Claymation is a form of animation in which the animator makes clay figure to construct a film.One of the first Claymation was called 'Morph' by 'Aardman'. Morph was a character that was created to entertain children with small clips of him doing silly things. Claymation is a simple form of stop motion where you simply move the object ( clay figure) slowly and bit by bit to while taking pictures of each simple movement. By the end of it the pictures would be pushed together to make the illusion that the clay figure is moving. Claymation is very similar to pixilation animation , the zoeltrope and cut out animation. As all these forms of animations are simply made and all give the illusion of moving images.

Aardman was founded in 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton. The company makes the majority of different types of animations aimed at the younger generations.Animation has always been a good form of entertainment for families and young children. But animation is very time consuming. Films like 'Wallace and Gromit and the Ware rabbit' took 5 years to create because for every single movement has to be captured.

In our claymation we wanted a strong story line with a simplistic look . We used three claymation models and made them fight over the phone. We captured every movement to make it seem they were moving. I liked the way our work turned out as it completed out target to make is strong in narrative with the simplistic look.
However I would change the way the lighting was used because the images were quite dark. But this is our first try at claymation and it has ticked criteria.