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WARNING: The file is 13MB (I'll edit it a bit smaller later), so if you have a slow connection, I'd advice you to download it rather than view it.

Here it is, after 2 days of non stop work in a small storage room, and about a month of pre and post production, my clay animation short film for Uni is sorted. We only needed to make a 20 second film, but being stupidly over-ambitious as I am my one ended up being just under two minutes. I'm rubbish at armatures and big 3D sets, so I decided to do mine more in the style of Rex the Runt: flat, gingerbread like characters against flat backgrounds. This makes animating with clay much simpler, as I don't have to worry about holding the characters up when they jump etc. I decided to make a film based on a group of characters I doodled a little while back, thanks to a burst of ideas I got when walking back home from Uni one day.

The film uses about 20 models (many for the same characters), cut-outs, painted backdrops and even a little bit of pixelation (where my hands have been animated), and was animated on top of a tablet board so I could slide the backgrounds under the characters without moving them. The eyes on the Fuji’s where done using a pen when its tip is inside it, and they blink simply by rubbing out the eyes and making lines with a modelling knife. The film was entirely produced on a DV camera linked up to a 'lunchbox' (expensive animation device), imported to a PC, then edited with the sound in Premiere Pro.

The is essentially a Children’s cartoon that hasn't been thought through, and is being narrated by someone who really doesn't know what he is doing. It's kind of a spoof of the lack of time creators have when working for children’s telly, only this is what happens when the time isn't spent very well, and it's had to be rushed out of the door to the creator doesn’t get the sack. The Fuji’s (excluding Stereo) names are tributes to other stop-motion animations, such as Argonaut (Think Ray Harryhausen) Runt and Rex (Rex the Runt by Aardman) and Wenslydale (a subtle reference to Wallace and Gromit). I also included some of my all time favourite sound effects, and a full on parody of a Disney film scene. Just because.

EDIT: Edited out something that was not needed. Just in case.
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~JimmyCartoonist Aug 9, 2011
Brill

It reminds me of an Aardman film.

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~B0j0 Sep 15, 2010
wow your really good! if you want, consider joining this group![link]
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~GagaMan Sep 16, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Thanks for the offer, but I haven't actually done any clay animation since this one which was five years ago, as much as I'd like the chance to do some again!

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~CowJedi May 14, 2010
Wilhelms scream haha

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~FOOLY-COOLY Feb 9, 2010
:) haven't seen this in a long time, but still think it's great.
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Mood: Joy ~Bleblebob Nov 23, 2009
neat i like it a lot

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~HuNeIyUe Nov 10, 2009  Student Traditional Artist
that was very funny xD

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~noisebeast Jun 1, 2009
Brilliant!

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~AquaSplash Nov 19, 2008
:lol: Do it the half arsed way :music:
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Mood: Dead ~Midna13 Jul 3, 2008
ninja pirate wizard monkey farie pancakes which Argonot ate ...stereo likes his new hat ^^

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