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Claymation How-to

2-6-2003


Frank Lloyd Wright: you can take an eraser to a blueprint, but if you don't storyboard you have to take a pickaxe to your foundation
Do brainstorming, storyboarding first
Then create your characters with the kit
Create a catipillar as an example
Use tin foil (not in the kit) to provide bulk around characters
Go to their sessions, win their software!
Get your copy, go home and play!
Need a background, sky and moutains
- use foam mat for floor
Get a $10 tripod from Walmart, about 2 feet away from the stage
going to inch the catapillar to the candy
My idea, use blue screen to put claymation in a real scene
Move 1/4 of an inch at a time
Click import new story (down arrow)
- choose images in a folder
Only unintutitve part is that you save first before anything happens
copy and paste your same scences, make 2 more of every one
You want an introductory scene and an end scene
Can import Quicktime compressed with Intel Indeo Video and then bring it into PowerPoint
- is free QT to AVI utility (move to AVI)
- this is a problem with PowerPoint, not with VideoBlender
People at A&M are seeing why her computer will do this (let her import QT into PPT with the Intel Indeo compressor


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