stop motion animation

STOP MOTION ANIMATION

HISTORY

First stop motion animation is credited to Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton (1897)

• Humpty Dumpty Circus

Earliest film was Modelling Extraordinary (1912)

Ray Harryhausen: Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), Clash of the Titans (1981)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tn5sgHYQSc

HISTORY

Walt Disney hired Mike Jittlov to do stop motion animation

• Mickey Mouse

Tim Burton worked with Henry Selick• Nightmare Before Christmas (109,440 frames),

Corpse Bride

HOW TO CLAYMATION

Open photobooth on the computer and choose your filter (normal, black and white, sepia)

Set up the computer facing the stage• Make sure that you can see the entire stage on the

screen

Create the characters and background• You may use construction paper and may draw on it

for the background• Attach the photos of yourselves to the clay figures of

yourselves.

HOW TO CLAYMATION

Set up the scene you wish to start the movie with

Hold up the black background

Take the picture on photobooth

Repeat

PROMPT

Our class is on the way to the NAEA conference in Breckinridge in a CSU bus

Suddenly we lose control on the alpine road and we tumble into a mountain lake. All of us are thrown free of the bus and escape miraculously unharmed. We have all been separated into groups of 3.

We are lost in the middle of the woods in the mountains with no transportation in sight and no service on our phones.

We must get to the conference on time or else we will all fail Patrick's class.