Our Claymation

Wow what to say about our claymation? Well we did our claymation on Vasco Nunez De Balboa. I chose to do my project with Eva. This entry will tell you about our experience with this project.


My favorite part of the project was doing the computer editing and molding the clay. Eva did most of the picture taking. We both molded the clay people and other things. Eva was the one who made our boat. She made it out of card board paper and toothpicks. We had to put a clay piece behind it so it wouldn't fall over. After we used it for our second scene it's a good thing we didn't have to use it again because it got crushed in the bag we put it in. I liked putting all the pictures on the computer. Adding music and dialog was the best part of that. Eva didn't like using the computer it never agreed with her.

One of the most difficult things for me was taking pictures. Every time I took pictures for our scene at least three of the pictures was blurry. Sometimes the sun outside the window would also go behind a cloud and the lighting of the picture would change. Another difficult part of this project was making the boat. Eva eventually made the real boat but I attempted it first. My boat would not stand up for more than twenty seconds. The sails kept falling off, they were so flimsy. One of the hard parts (it wasn't that hard) was molding the clay. The only hard thing to make out of clay was the dog because every leg and the head had to have toothpicks through the middle. It was also the size of all the people.

The most important things I learned in this project were how to really use iMovie. Before we started this project I knew how to use iMovie because I did a project with it in sixth grade. When we started this project I had forgotten some of the things I knew in sixth grade. Throughout our whole project I did most of the computer work. So eventually I remembered most of the stuff about iMovie. Another thing I learned in this project was how to mold people and other things out of clay. Learning how to make people and boats and other things out of clay was a good thing to learn. It was difficult to figure out how to make them just right so they would stand and stay standing. After awhile you just know which way to bend the person to make it balance out. That is what I learned doing this project.