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STOP-FRAME ANIMATION AND STUFF |
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I've not been
into Flash for a very long time. I used to just make frame by
frame animation and before that I did stop frame animation with
Modeling Clay, and anything else that happened to be lying around. I still mess around with stop-frame every now and again, but it's so much more time consuming than any other type of filmmaking.
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| A return to the stop-motion here with Crooked (Orcus) Rot. This started off as an experiment to see if stop-frame would be any better using an SLR camera. The result would certainly suggest so visually, but it was a hell of a lot harder. This project really began when I discovered a treasure cave of strange items in my own back yard including mannequin heads and rubber hands. It inspired me so much that every time I returned I gathered more inspiration. Originally I focused on capturing light which is why the SLR was so important, but eventually it almost became a sequel to Hell with all the blood flying about . Composer Marcus Fjellström who donated some of his music for Men From Up The Stairs became interested in the project when I posted a few screen shots on Newgrounds and went on to compose the entire musical score. This is interesting because it's the first time that I have made a video first and then sent it to someone else to do the music. |
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| Back in 2005 I tried to make a stop-frame short with a narrative and voices but I grew bored after shooting about 80% of it, and so I left it to get mouldy. Re-looking at it recently, I was still quite unhappy, so I jumbled it up with some other stop-frame bits I'd similarly discarded, mangled up the voices and re-soundtracked it. The original was called "I'd Like To Be..." and was about a man bored with himself, so he decided to drive out into the middle of nowhere, dig a hole and bury himself. The music is by Loom |
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MY BROKEN CAMCORDER REBUILT ITSELF |
My trusty old Panasonic camcorder stopped working about 6 months after the warranty expired. I managed to get the exact same model from ebay to replace it though. I was planning to smash the old one up but instead I made this. |
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TOADSTOOL WIRES |
Something I made for uni. The project set was a 15 second experimental animation using music that you've made from anything but musical intruments.....it was a great project I thought. I based mine around wires and electrical stuff........the obvious choice as my room is a big wirey mess. I used Stop Motion Pro and some crappy editor that kept crashing. The music synched better to the imagery before it was compressed. I got a good mark! |
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HOLLOWHEAD
:: AFX - MELODIES FROM MARS TRACK 9 |
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Made this last
year. It's about a guy with a Hollow Head. The sound is a bit
out of sync. |
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E.C.T
:: DDR :: BY DAVID FIRTH AND JIMI
MWNG |
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Jimi Mwng and
myself made our collaborative claymation debut with this music
video for our good friend E.C.T
(Ed C. Tillbrook) - maker of fantastic electronic music. It was
something that we just kept adding too for a long time while were
at art college together. We'd get tuflered up and animate for
about 7 hours while listening to every album in the universe and
at the end of the day we'd have around 20 seconds of new footage.
Eventually I just stuck it together with the track. Ed has a record out which you should buy. More of his music can be found here |
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:: APHEX TWIN |
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This isn't claymation
at all! It was basically an experiment with time lapse photography
and editing. I filmed most of it with Jimi Mwng at the Lake in
Doncaster (Lakeside) and then some on the Town Fields last Summer.
The quality of this video is quite low so quite a bit of the insane
flashing imagery is lost with the frame dropping but you should
be able to get the gist of it. The song is "4" by Aphex
Twin. |
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HELL
:: BY DAVID FIRTH, JIMI MWNG AND CRUST |
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Oh dear....our
first attempt at being disturbing! I think we pulled it off to
a certain extent. We wanted to make the most evil animation we
possibly could so we made an animated vision of hell. We set it
to some dark ambient music by Nurse
With Wound and made horrific sounds by recording screaming
and moaning and then altering it to sound inhuman and downright
scary. The result was this. Creshton Crayfields (Crust) was excited
by our work so he hopped on board and helped us finish it. |
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| APHEX TWIN :: GIRL/BOY
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| This got me into
university! It's half animated and half real footage. I took my
camcorder to the lake one night with Jimi and Ant for a blaze
and shot some crazy footage which I speeded up loads. Then I combined
it with some animated footage I'd done about a suicidal clay model
bloke thing, got Jimi to animate one of his clay models (the thing
with the crazy fingers) and made some drummer bits. Eventually
I threw it together with Girl/Boy song, an insanely fast Aphex
song and here it is! One of my most proud moments in the field
of editing. It's an explosion of colour and wide angle madness.
May hurt your eyes. |
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| HEY HEY BLINKY BILL, SAVE
US FROM THAT WOODCHIP MILL |