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I've been experimenting with claymohtion a bit and I wanted to share the results so far. It's only 9 seconds but it's a bit different from the usual shared work here. And if you're thinking "why this clip on a Moho forum?" I just want to say; thank you!

Watch it here: www.nobudgetvideo.com/moho/claymohtion.wmv

Reindert.
www.nobudgetvideo.com

Cool! Was there supposed to be sound yet?

I liked the stretching arm bit, as well as the depth-of-field in the last shot. I like it!

nobudget wrote:And if you're thinking "why this clip on a Moho forum?"...

Is this using image layers in Moho? Have you tried using a lower frame rate, like 12 or so? Might give you more of the "Gumby" look (for that you may have to go down to 6 or 3).

Looks cool!

I'll explain everything I did here step-by-step when I have the time, and I'm sure nobody can predict all tricks used here! It's quite simple actually, but I'm again trying to "stretch" the Moho features to its limits. You're welcome to guess what is happening here, it can make you think about Moho implementation in a different way. Who knows, maybe you come up with a much better idea! And LM, it is 12 frames but not quite, I cheated myself a bit here.

Reindert.
www.nobudgetvideo.com

This should go in the gallery. Nice demo of the power of Moho.

Brian

It's hard to say when you're using such a lousy format as wmv but my guess would be that you have modeled the different parts in clay, then photographed them individually and finally animated them as bitmap images in Moho. The background is timelapse photographed.
If you want to see something similar, "flat" clay animation but made with camera and multiplane-table, check out some of the works of Piotr Sapegin. I know I've seen some of his work online but I can't find it right now. Anyway, Fish Balls, One Day a Man Bought a House and The Salt Mill are all films of his made in this technique.

Rylleman, quite close but not 100%, probably because of "such a lousy format as wmv", I won't go into that remark although it sounds biased and misinformed (but let's drop that discussion right...NOW) I never heard of the animator before, I'll check it out, I found out so far it's Pjotr with a "j", that makes googling a bit easier!
I really like your assumption the background is time-lapse photography, that was the visual concept although it's not how I did it.

If it seems like I'm willfully misleading all of you, that's somewhat true but it's not to annoy you, just to get a external assesment on the effect. It's not meant to be used this way, it's a "proof-of-concept" and I'll explain in detail later on. Whether someone is interested or not Thanks for the comments so far.

Reindert.
www.nobudgetvideo.com

I'm somewhat curious how you got the effect. It looks nice. Well done.

nice
is there some secret message hidden in the images?

no budget presents "Paper Cut"?

tell us your secrets!!!

I've whipped together a little tutorial how it's all done. Don't expect to be "wowed" but rather expect to think "is that all?". But that was the point, so enjoy!

http://nobudgetvideo.com/moho/claymohtion/

Reindert.
www.nobudgetvideo.com

Brilliant! Must have taken some time to put all this together -- it is much appreciated. Gives me some ideas, too...

J

Just wanted to mention http://www.animateclay.com as a good start site for the clay end of the clay+moho equation if anyone wants to get more into this.

nobudget wrote:I've whipped together a little tutorial how it's all done. Don't expect to be "wowed" but rather expect to think "is that all?". But that was the point, so enjoy!

Thanks first for sharing your creation, and then the background info on how it was done!

jorgy

Sent the link to Marc Spess at www.animateclay.com and is on the front page today.

http://www.animateclay.com