33.1 Clay Animation

Gumbasia


Gumbasia is a 3 minute 10 second short film that was made in 1953 and released on September 2 1955. The first clay animation was produced by a man named Art Clokey who created the classic series Gumby and Davey and Goliath using the same technique. Gumby is well known for a good example stop motion clay animation. Clokey created Gumbasia while studying at he University of Southern California under the direction of Slavko Vorkapic. Gumbasia has done over 234 episodes and a movie over 50 years.Gumby has become a cultural icon and has had a huge impact on the animation industry.Gumby has also inspired and entertained audience of all ages.My clay animation was 51 seconds me and my team experimented with different shapes we included a Volcano erupting towards the end we included a city type of environment to see how different backgrounds would look.Me and my clay mates decided to keep it simple with two shots also we used a slower melody to give it a more relaxing feel to it.compared to the original soundtrack.


Morph


Morph is an animated Plasticine stop-motion character that appeared with the late Tony Hart, beginning in 1977, on several of his UK TV programmes, notably Take Hart and Heartbeat.
Morph was produced for the BBC by Aardman Animations, later famous for Wallace and Gromit.
Morph appeared mainly in one minute "shorts" interspersed throughout the show, characters could change their morphology.Sometimes they would become spheres in order to move around, or extrude themselves into cylinders to pass to different They could also mimic other object, or creatures.


Strengths 


One of the strengths of using Morph is its cheap and relatively easy to get started but hard to perfect, certainly with 3D models (you can see the progression by watching all the Wallace and Grommit films in the order they were made). 






Disadvantage 


Again, you don't have to worry about expensive cels and redrawing characters perfectly for every frame, but moving individual models can be time consuming if you are striving for perfection.






Summary


The Morph was fun at the start i found it a bit tricky to sculpt the arms and head lucky i got some help from one of my peers who is a pro.When we got into are groups me and peers decided to show a mordern Morph by adding a completely different soundtrack to what usually expected.In are Morph clay animation are target adience where all ages from 12 to 60 because it included a young boy. A middle aged man and a old man in his sixty's.I think my team achieved this task really well because i found each others strength and we worked on that to produce a amazing Morph, We had some problems when we was working with Morph because me and my partners created the Morph differently by making the legs,arms and head separte. The downside to that is limbs will tend to fall of or the Morph would lean forward but comparing to Cut Animations you dont have to draw




The Morph was fun at the start i found it a bit tricky to sculpt the arms and head lucky i got some help from one of my peers who is a pro.When we got into are groups me and peers decided to show a modern Morph by adding a completely different soundtrack to what usually expected. In are Morph clay animation are target audience where all ages from 12 to 60 because it included a young boy, a middle aged man and a old man in his sixty's.I think my team achieved this class task really well because i found each others strength and we worked on that to produce a amazing  Morph.We had some problems when we was working with Morph because me and my partners created the Morph differently by making the legs,arms and head separate.The downside to that is limbs will tend to fall of or the Morph would lean forward.But comparing to Cut animations you don't have to draw out the characters for every single frame and it can be general process.Also clay gets warm which breaks and distorts the Morph.The most easiest animation is the Zerotype because it does not require much work you just have to draw 6 frames.The downside to that is the person gets bored of seeing a loop.In comparison to Zerotype the cut animation can be viewed by a larger audience and the viewer has more to look forward to because its 2d.The Morph beats cut animation and Zerotype when it comes to viewing because you can see 360 degrees around the Morph which gives you a more of a feel.


In concusion the cut out animation is cheaper because you can get a magazine,newspaper and it saves lots of time.Unlike the Morph it gets distorted under heat and it cost money to get a basic Morph set.