Morph

Morph is a character created by the BBC, he's made out of modelling clay and is the main character in the short TV shows shown on many different TV programmes including: Take Hart, Heartbeat, SMart, The Morph Files and Morph as well as more. He was created by Aardman Animations, who was later known for Wallace and Gromit, for the BBC.

Claymation

Firstly we created models out of modelling clay. This is what I found the hardest about this task as moulding the clay was hard to especially make the model out of one 'lump' instead of making seperate parts like legs, arms etc. we had to make them out of one lump as otherwise they'd break when moving the characters in front of the camera.

Moving the characters on set was also difficult as getting them to stand up was a challenge as they weren't very well balanced.Although getting basic movement and managing the camera wasn't hard.

To create the clip we used iStopMotion, we found this fairly easy to use as we had both used it in the last animation we created. We then imported the clip into iMovie to add sound and a credits sequence. This was also easy to do as we used it last time.

Here is our clip:

Stop/start animation

This is mine and Callum's stop/start animation, we created this using iStopMotion. Firstly we drew a background, this wouldn't be able to move. We then drew and cut out all the sections that would move, for example; the head, wings, arms, legs, body etc. This was the basics we needed in order to create our animation.

To create the animation we used a camera on a stand and used the iStopMotion software to take still images each time changing the position of the things we wanted to move. For example at the start of the video we moved the water droplets out of the toilet and onto the floor etc. Each time we moved the sections we took 2-3 stills, this made the animation run more smoothly and meant it didn't jump, as much.

We then took the animation into iMovie in order to add sound effects and to edit the clips. To make our animation run more smoothly we should have made the pieces not move as far each time although this was hard as the paper we drew the different parts on were fiddly.