Sunday, March 10, 2019

Aardman Animations Claymation

Classic claymation films like “Wallace and Gromit” and “Chicken Run”, are created at a legendary animation studio called Aardman Animations. The making of a claymation film is put into a ton of work for every frame. All of the 273 puppet-like clay characters brought to life were created by 23 different model-makers, each one involving 10 or more weeks, and 3,000 interchangeable mouths. Each character throughout the production of the filming was moved frame by frame by hand, moving the limbs, fingers, and joints from a skeleton design inside. The filming involved a stop-motion technique to take one frame of a film, making 24 frames per second in an entire film, whether a small movement is involved in a slow frame, and a big moment for a faster frame. Actions in some scenes tend to be frantic and frenetic, even though the stop motion is jittery. Sometimes animations may involve creative thinking.

Video of how Claymation movies are made:



Aardman Animation History: https://www.aardman.com/the-studio/history/ 

Video of a production of a Wallace and Gromit movie: 

1 comment:

julie said...

Thanks for sharing this!