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Be My Frankenstein!Mar 10 '01 Write an essay on this topic.The Bottom Line Clay + Motion Picture Camera One-Frame Snapshots Run Through Projector = CLAYMATION. Reach into your heart and mind. You, too, can be God. You can create a universe within your own control, with little people and houses and pets. Not SIMS, moron. Claymation. Take a class. Learn it. Discover the power of working with clay, just as Dr. Frankenstein worked with dead flesh and tissue, to create the world. Especially if you're miserable and have no friends. Make little clay friends to play with. Then take a camera - such as is used in the creation of motion pictures. Take a series of still photographs of your clay animation people as they move through their daily routines, moving the clay ever so slightly between captured images. You may wish to draw out storyboards first (drawings) so you have a better understanding of the story you have created. Watch it evolve before your very eyes. Do this enough times and you will produce a series of moving snapshots on a strip of celluloid. Run it through a projector and the illusion that those lumps of clay are alive (ha, ha - ALIVE, ALIVE!) - thus you have given birth to clay in motion, you have achieved animation. Lump these words together and what does that spell, kids? Claymation. Like the degenerate junkie, you will become absorbed in this world of your own creation. Drunk with power, you will continue to fabricate new stories with the clay beings. You will give them names, like "Little Johnny" - and he will go for long walks through clay fields, dipping his feet into clay streams that ripple in clay-motion. He will smoke a clay pipe, and clay reams of smoke will emerge. (Wait, that's not true - real smoke will need to be employed, since you cannot create wind or air out of clay. I guess it won't completely be made of CLAY - I sincerely hope this new element does not throw you off.) You will create a series of short claymation films from the money your rich, dead uncle left you. It is a costly process, as is heroin. Before long, your money shall be depleted unless you sensibly submit your short films to festivals in the hope of being discovered. If you are, perhaps a studio like Nickelodeon will fund you. If not, you will soon become penniless and despondent. If you run out of money, you will be left with only the "clay" and not the "mation". The camera will grow rusty and die. You, too, will grow ill, stuck in bed wrapped in a blanket coughing with pneumonia. "What a glorious world it was," you will pine. "You were alive once, Little Johnny, and now you are dead - for you do not move as you did when I took those little snapshots." After a while, you will go mad. At such time, the motion picture camera will no longer be necessary. In your delusions, you shall imagine Little Johnny walking and talking. Enjoy those moments of bliss, because starvation has set in. You will soon be dead.  |
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