tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-193354742009-02-23T19:41:50.402ZThis blog is a journal of my journey into the world of stop motion animation with clay and plastercine. It logs all of my attempts no matter how bad they are :) If you have any comments or would like to suggest an animation then please do - I am always looking for ideas.bloggernoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19335474.post-59842478092854202202009-02-23T19:37:00.003Z2009-02-23T19:41:50.747Z

So, you saw the dinosaur joke and thought, hmmm... I wonder how he did that. Probably not, well, I will tell you anyway. My father-in-law John did the joke to camera. I then used clever animation software to study 1 frame of the subject at a time and model the character. It is called rotoscope lip syncing and it gives some truly impressive results.Here is a side by side shot which shows how

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Dinosaur related humour. I did this animation for my son who like Dinosaurs. The joke was told by my father in law.

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I did this animation for BBC3. It is an introduction for the cartoon Family Guy. It is currently on the BBC website and I hope it will get aired.

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This is another slightly longer test animation I did very quickly using a webcam and some basic software. It took me about 30 minutes.

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I was testing some new "clay" material + showing my son how to animate. The end result was this animation which took me about 20 minutes.

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One of my earliest and really my only long animation. A story of a couple, there romance and the alien invasion of body snatching worms that brings it all crashing down. Typical love story really.

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A short animation by me, but one of my favourites. This story shows that you should NEVER underestimate your enemy. A quite well animated tale (if I say so myself) which is fun to watch.

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After having a very complimentary e-mail from a class of animation students in the USA - I decided to write an epic - it is currently under production, but in the mean time, here is a sample of a rotoscoping / lip syncing test I did. I needed to prove that I could do lip syncing and it would look good. It is my very first attempt, other than that it is utterly and totally pointless - still

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I love this movie - it took me ages and is quite long. It is a clay / computer 2d animation about annoying space chavs. If I can rant for a minute - I work hard for a living, pay my taxes, have a HUGE mortgage and generally get by OK. What I cannot stand are Chavs. People who take pride in being an underclass. Getting pissed, fighting in town centres, vandalising property, wearing thick gold

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