Claymation
The below passage is copied from one of my previous blog entries and sums up my general narrative for my claymation.
"The lecturer mentioned I could do claymation as my next animation, this almost immediately gave me a general narrative idea which I want to get down on this blog post so its here for next week. The idea is that there are these oddly shaped monsters and the end consists of one of the monsters melting, thus, revealing an apple inside, this is when the other monsters begin to replicate what happened to the first so they can reveal their inner fruit, "I believe that inside every one of us is a fruit waiting to come out" will then come up on screen....then the last monster reveals a vegetable inside of him...which the fruits are not too happy about so they murder him. "he's not good enough for the food waste bin, dump him with the other trash". So that is my general narrative for next weeks animation. I'm thinking also that they throw him in a blender and we see the vegetable afterwards dragging its mangled body across the kitchen top."
Inspiration
Here I have accumulated a few animations to inspire my own experimental claymation. I plan on doing the actual claymation myself at the weekend and I should be editing it next week (week 11).
Fluxos - Diego Akel
In this claymation Diego Akel uses the motion of clay to create his piece. He pushes the clay around in interesting ways and makes shapes pop out of the cay to then have moving around the screen. This has made me think about the background for my own claymation. I believe I was just going to leave it as my kitchen top...but now I want to use odd items I can find to make a sort of surreal environment where it looks as if the clay creatures use our items for their own (different) purposes. This claymation has also opened up my eyes to the possibility of having the clay of my characters distorting throughout the claymation to show the unstable nature of the clay (and to foretell the narrative side of there being fruit inside my clay creatures).
AbztraQt Sir Q - Rafael Teles
This claymation was just mental, There were similar aspects to the one above where the background clay was moved around to create movement, the characters you can also see on the bottom image appear out of the clay and also disappear back into the clay sometimes as well. They also get eaten by some tinfoil bugs...which strangely works quite well. This has of course given me the aspect that I can have more than just the clay animating. This sort of approach overall though is different than the one I had in mind. I intend to shoot this like a live action film with cuts to help move the narrative along.
Hollerings: 3 Stories in Wood - Lara Gallagher
Although this animation is a stop-motion (and not claymation), I have put it in here for the inspiring aspect of how the narrative is constructed. By that I mean that the narrative is split into three acts, and there is a frame with one of the wooden blocks above saying what the next act is called. This has made me want to divide my narrative into three acts of my own to add a more punchy element to them. I believe that this structure could give a clearer narrative in my short time span for the claymation itself.
