Thursday 19th September 2013

Exercise 2 - Claymation
Team: Dean, Kelsey & Jess

For this exercise we needed to create a short animation exploring the morphing properties of modelling clay.

In our animation we decided we would have small clay blobs dance around a fire and then eventually merge into the fire. The blobs would morph into a few different shapes and we also animated the fire. We set the F-Stop to F10 and set the Aperture to 1/80 and then began our shoot. Whilst we were shooting the animation myself and Kelsey were animating the clay and Jess was operating the camera.

Nothing really went wrong during this shoot other than a few minor occurances. At one point one of the blobs slightly goes off frame which could have easily been avoided but it isn't too much of a problem. Another small error that occurred was when we were batch processing the sequence. The first image processed wrong so we couldn't use it. I could have easily edited the photo on its own to fix the problem, however, it wasn't a necessary image so I just left it how it was.

For some reason the batch processed version of this image cropped to this size.

The blob slightly went out of frame. We could have easily fixed this if we paid more attention to the framing.

We could alter this exercise and make the sequence of the animation longer by reusing most of the images. Instead of the animation being one sequence of the blobs circuling the fire, we could reverse some shots and also reuse them to make the blobs seem more lively. Also speeding up the sequence would give the same lively effect.

This is the completed video of the claymation.