How to make a Basic Claymation

This instructable will teach you how to make a basic and easy claymation.

Step 1 Things you will need

1 digital camera or camcorder

2 spools of wire (1 thin/1 thick)

tool to cut wire

at least 2 blocks of clay

1 spool of tape

Comments

[estonianmk]

i was wondering, can you use windows movie maker?

[Spartan-X]

Yes you can, but unfortunatly its not ment to flash photos even over 10 fps so windows movie maker will constantly freeze and the videos will be of poor quality.

[PetBennett]

i made a claymation with moviemaker and it came out alright. it would have come out better if the camera wasnt crap

[Spartan-X]

Oh yes, I can totally understand having a low quality or wobbly cammera. It't very annoying.

[silverwolff]

it is possible to put the pictures in a slide show format on WMM, but it might be difficult, because you would have to alter the speed of every picture. Instead I would recommend just looking for a free stopmotion software on google. If you cant find any, you can try wmm.

[xMIKEABx]

in school we used wmm to make a claymation... theres a setting somewhere to change the speed of every photo so u only need to do it once

[Trainguyxx]

ah, to bad, I'm fully against macs and the "i" thingy...ill go with CapnTac's idea XD

[bob the builder #1]

cool

[CapnTac]

Simpler way alert! Get a cheap webcam (but not too too cheap, I got a 50 dollar one) and download THIS: http://www.clayanimator.com/english/stop_motion_animator.html
It is free, but only works with webcams I think.

[GorillazMiko]

What's with the pictures? Better pictures would definitely be appreciated, but it's a good idea.

[mrmath]

do you have any example videos that you created using this technique?