My Own Stop Motion Animation

As well as creating a group stop motion / pixelation, I decided I would create my own, though it took longer than i expected to created it was worth the time though now I have a lot of the other work that has to be done more hastily, such as my essay and interactive narrative.

After 544 photographs (if i remember correctly) and 3 long days I managed to finish my stop motion, after researching a variety of clay animation styles i decided I would recreate my own version of the animation technique. It started off ok though later on I was to experience quite a lot of complications such as the photographs on my memory stick not actually erasing even though I erased them on my Mac, meaning i had to re-format the memory card every time I needed to take more photos. Also experienced complications such as the battery running out in my camera meaning i had to take the camera from its fixed area to re-charge the battery and had to try and re-create the position I fixed the camera to the best I could before I began to take photos again. You will also see the effects of my camera position changing throughout the process of the animation, though some of it is deliberate, most of it is mistake due to having no proper stand for my camera and having to makeshift using a self made blu tack stand ! when you haven't got equipment you just have to be creative !!!

Other than that it went averagely well, though I also had a few complications on the software side where I had to remember what methods I had to go through to modify the photographs in order for them to be ready to be transferred to Premiere. Premiere also presented me a few complications since i forgot how to create fades as well ass adding text although with a little advice from friends the methods came back to me ...

Here is my finished Claymation ! Hope you enjoy my work ..