Claymation Reflection Essay

In this essay I will tell you a little bit about my experience with my claymation project. We were working on these claymation projects for about a month. For this claymation project my partner was Andrew Holt.

My favorite part about this whole claymation project was learning how to use a lot of the different applications on the computer. This was my favorite part because I did not know how to use some of the applications like iphoto and imovie. At the end of this project however I was was pretty good at using all of the applications on the computer. I learned how to shorten clips in imovie and how to put in music. I learned how to upload videos into iphoto from my camera and then transport them into imovie. Sometimes uploading the pictures to iphoto was not the easiest thing to do. My camera had to be in a certain mode to let me upload the pictures. I did not know this until about half of the way through the project but after I Knew what to do it became easier. Another cool thing that I learned how to do was ad voice and make titles in Imovie. That was my favorite part about the claymation project.

The hardest thing about this project was moving the clay for each picture. You had to move each prop and or clay person the slightest bit before each picture. This was hard because sometimes the clay people would fall over and then you didn't know where they were standing so then you would have to guess where they were standing and sometimes you would be way off and then the claymation would have a big jump in it. Another reason why this was so hard was because after you move the clay so many times it will eventually rip. When the clay people rip you have to re-attach there body parts and they sometimes look different. After you fix your clay people and take more pictures and move them more they will rip or become deformed again, when this happens you have to fix your people again. This process repeats over and over. Moving the people is also hard because the people are so small. This makes it hard because their arms and legs are also very small. When your clay peoples legs are small it makes it hard to position your clay people. The smalls arms also give you a disadvantage because if you want your clay person to pick something up it is nearly impossible because their arms are so small.

The most important thing that i learned when i was doing this project was time management. This is the most important thing that I learned because if you did not get you scenes in on time you could not get full credit for that scene. Another place that time management comes into play is when you are shooting your scenes or making your props. Time management in these situations is and issue because if your scene is due in two days you would probably want to make your props the first day then shoot you scenes the second day. If you did not do that you would be stuck with making your props and shooting your scene all on the same day which is not an easy task. Andrew and I were fairly good at getting our scenes in on time. The only scene that we did not get in on time was the final scene with the ending credits. I usually wait until the last day to do thing on big projects but on this project you could not do that. You could not and should not wait until the last day to do everything on this project because it is not all due on one day, each scene is due on its own day. Over all I think I learned how too manage my time better on big projects.

This was a reflection on my claymation project. This project was one of my favorite projects I have ever done. It is one of my favorites because it gave us a lot of freedom we were pretty much on our own every day. I hope you enjoyed reading about my project and I hope that I have given you some good advice that you can use if you ever have to do a project like this one.


By: Cameron Coupe