Claymation!

How to make a cool easy claymations for very little price!!!!

Step 1 What You Will Need

First of all you will need a few basic things,
-Clay, I prefer Claytoon clay but anything works
-A camera
-Light to light the scene
-And last a table of some sort to make the claymation on

Comments

[The Tinkerer]

When making a stop motion animation movie it's a good idea to avoid taking pictures of easily moved objects, such as papers, plants, or natural light.

[tureturillo]

You don't need to use a 24 frames-per-second framerate. Better use 12fps or even 8 fps. This means saving a lot of time!

[s-mac]

ya it saves time but in the end of a 24 fps its gunna turn out a lot smoother. trust me i makeclaymations in my spare time as a hobby and 24 is by far the best.

[jordomaller]

i use my pseye for stop motion the only downfall is that it only lets you do 30 fps :s i usually just do 2 pics of the same for small movements

[jtobako]

Show, don't tell. Where are YOUR pics and vids?

[BatAndOwl]

I don't have a camera, so I used my laptop instead. I made an octopus who ate a candy bar, a lollipop and bubblegum! I found a new hobby ;).

[Beduk]

Its quiet difficult to make 24 films per second.Can i make 10 films per secondz???

[knoxarama]

okay, the first guy is form knox's korner, the second is wallace and gromit, but who's the third?

[cantthinkof bettername]

Does anyone know a free program for PC that I could make claymations with. also I don't have a camera stand.

[mas9779]

stop motion
http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/studentgrupper/2005-hig-stopmotion/index.php

[444488889]

i love clay mation

[mage]

i did claymation in high school. it stared a booger that ate schoolwork when you slept in class

[Grey_Wolfe]

Know of any free claymation programs? Any good ones.

[SpaceDucky]

a good program would be monkeyjam where you use a webcam to do stopmotion claymation. check out my instructable on monkeyjam and how to use it: http://www.instructables.com/id/Stop_motion_animation_made_easy/

[Grey_Wolfe]

Thanks, will definitely check it out.

[Grey_Wolfe]

And my brain has made a five second animation where he walks up to the flower to smell it, and it EATS him. lol Really, that popped into my head when I saw this. Nice Ible, btw.

[Sunny124613]

me and my bro made some that were really cool,but most of the pics were corrupted in the end and we used a different camera after word:( but nice clay people!!

[CameronSS]

Nothing to do with the Instructable, but I want a magic lightbulb like in Step 1!

[Weissensteinburg]

Easy, solder wires to the contacts, and position the camera in a way that the wires are hidden by the base. =]

[CameronSS]

Well, if you stacked button cells in the base, and put some EL wire in place of a filament, and then REALLY overexposed the shot, you might get an image like that...Or you could GIMP it. We can't really have long conversations....Our avatars are too similar.

[Weissensteinburg]

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/06/developing-idea-part-2-compact.html

If you don't want to read it all, look at the first picture, and then scroll down to the second one to get a quick idea of how it was done.

[CameronSS]

If I weren't shooting film, and given 24 shots roughly every week, I would have to try that for Photo 1. This definitely looks like a digital project. Maybe I'll wait until my sister gets the Canon Rebel XTi she wants.

[Weissensteinburg]

You could really do it with any camera..

[CameronSS]

Yes, but I'd have to play around with it a lot, and with a digital camera, you get instant feedback. With film, I'd have to wait for the next developing day, then spent an hour developing the film.

[Weissensteinburg]

I meant that you could use a point and shoot digital, if you have one.

[CameronSS]

I have one... but how would you do this without independent flash?

[Weissensteinburg]

Use normal lights =]

[CameronSS]

Hmm...should we make a collaboration? How to take a cool picture with both a DSLR and a point-and shoot? I think I'll just GIMP it...

[Weissensteinburg]

You mean...taking that lightbulb picture?

[sgt.paper]

this a long ass coversation

[CameronSS]

Not nearly as long as some. Scroll down to the conversation between killerjackalope and Goodhart.

[iq_abyss]

Indeed.

[Kiteman]

LOL!

[the_burrito_master]

he looks good and... rely funny lol.

[Saint]

What you are doing here is what we call "kicking in open doors" in dutch. I know you need clay for a clay animation, and that using light and a camera would make things lots easier. But if you made a few animations, you should know some stuff beyond that. What about using wires in skinny figures? What about the lights on your set? What camera do you use, and have you tried software like iStopmotion of similar? That's the stuff that would make an interesting instructable.

[Kiteman]

Maybe I'm being picky, but shouldn't an 'ible on animation actually contain some animation?

[Weissensteinburg]

My thoughts exactly...and maybe a definition as to what a claymation is.

[s-mac]

what are you talking about?????

[Kiteman]

What I'm talking about is an Instructable that is almost entirely lacking in instruction, and doesn't even give an example of the potential end product. How about you showing us what you can do?

[Weissensteinburg]

He's saying that you show show a video of a claymation you've actually done.