Tuscar Studio Films

http://www.tuscarstudiofilms.com/index.html

This lady's pretty interesting, Megan Ehrhart... This site doesn't have videos, unfortunately, but it shows an array of her characters that she's created for stop motion animation, along with images from different films she's created. She talks about narrative and meaning in her work, but the thing that caught my attention was the detail of her characters and what glimpses I could see of her settings in different films. Honestly from watching critique today, setting and detail seem to be really what grab my attention the most and keep me in awe. (Even though my settings may be poorly executed..)

well, somethin to think about anyway

Nanuq

I found this website about a unique opportunity...even though it's in Chicago and started a few days ago, I thought I would share. Apparently this movie is going to be real-life film and also somehow incorporate claymation and they were actually looking for a claymation artist to work on the film.

http://www.mandy.com/1/jobs3.cfm?v=37723212

That is the website with the info about the film and the position.

http://www.nanuqthefilm.com/

That is the website for the film.

I thought it was cool that there are opportunities out there like this, and the film might be kinda cool to check out to see how they incorporate the clay animation.

Legend of Zelda Stop Motion

Ok, so I only came across this video because I'm a geek and I like Nintendo alot, but I think it's actually pretty well-done in a few ways. 2D stop motion is a nice alternative to full, 3D claymation and I'm interested in trying it at some point. Also, the use of thought balloons is interesting. It's a cool way of expressing a narrative without dialogue (and speech wouldn't make much sense within the context of the game this is based on). So, yeah. It might just be nerdiness getting to me, but I thought this was kind of cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_lOxgl4m-c

Post for 4/6

Hi,

Here is my finished claymation sketch 2!

The PEN Story

I was trying to find YouTube videos on how to use the green screen, then I came across this video. They took 60000 pictures and created a stop animation using photo prints. Check it out!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Et7UQh1tg

Editing Techniques

So with my claymation project, I had quite a bit of editing to do. I found a quick way to edit out the wires in my project. In photoshop, if you put a similar 'base' image to the one that you are editing, you can simply erase the wires out to reveal the same background underneath. This ensures that the color will remain the same without actually seeing what has been edited out.

Vampires!!!

I didn't post any progress on this animation, but it is done and ready for viewing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJYD2N8pOrQ

I found this claymation, which reminded me of the guy I put into a horrifying situation. Though he didn't make it out like this dude did: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21pHDGeK4EI&feature=related