STOP MOTION ANIMATION HISTORY v First stop motion

STOP MOTION ANIMATION

HISTORY v First stop motion animation is credited to Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton (1897) • Humpty Dumpty Circus v Earliest film was Modelling Extraordinary (1912) v Ray Harryhausen: Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), Clash of the Titans (1981)

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HISTORY v Walt Disney hired Mike Jittlov to do stop motion animation • Mickey Mouse v Tim Burton worked with Henry Selick • Nightmare Before Christmas (109, 440 frames), Corpse Bride

HOW TO CLAYMATION v Open photobooth on the computer and choose your filter (normal, black and white, sepia) v Set up the computer facing the stage • Make sure that you can see the entire stage on the screen v Create the characters and background • You may use construction paper and may draw on it for the background • Attach the photos of yourselves to the clay figures of yourselves.

HOW TO CLAYMATION v Set up the scene you wish to start the movie with v Hold up the black background v Take the picture on photobooth v Repeat

PROMPT v Our class is on the way to the NAEA conference in Breckinridge in a CSU bus v Suddenly we lose control on the alpine road and we tumble into a mountain lake. All of us are thrown free of the bus and escape miraculously unharmed. We have all been separated into groups of 3. v We are lost in the middle of the woods in the mountains with no transportation in sight and no service on our phones. v We must get to the conference on time or else we will all fail Patrick's class.