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Clay Animation featuring Videoblender
6-18-2002
Key is getting students engaged: then retention increases
Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run used clay animation
Have created the resources to create something like Chicken Run
Don't give this to your art teacher!
Can tie into language arts, science, other content areas
first example: once upon a seed with construction paper background
projects here take a LONG time
First one was just 22 scenes
My ideas:
- I would like to do workshops on clay animations and mediablender
Next example is based on the book Frog and Toad
Videoblender is the product that
Process:
- create clay characters and a scene
- take individual still pictures of the scene, manipulate objects about a quarter of an inch
Videoblender lets you add and format text like HyperStudio
- can drag slides around (storyboard scenes)
Can have transitions, different transitions for different frame elements
Copy scenes you want to appear longer
Clayanimation kid includes videoblender
Create a person:
- use claytoon clay (blends well and never hardens)
- make people with pipecleaners
wrap sheets of tinfoil around pipe cleaners, clay adheres better
put scene about 2 feet away from the scene
- use a tripod from walmart for $15 to keep camera still
Tons of different ways to tie this into the curriculum and samples on their website!
- REALLY CREATIVE STUFF!
see Mt Everest / Plate Tectonics, Yellow and Blue is cute
Go to their website and click SNACKS - resources for integrating tech
- like how to guides for different software solutions
pics4learning all copyright friendly images
All their products are cross platform
- imageblender runs on OS 9 as does videoblender
- have a version of mediablender for OS X