When did you start animation and why, what caused you to start?

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Arnymate

I started clay animation a while back, maybe a few years ago, after learning that I could actually make one myself. I was in a clay class and another student said that he was going to make some claymations using the clay we were using at the time. So i got myself some clay, used my parent's camcorder, and figured out how to use windows movie maker to put the images together. I'm not totally sure why I did it(can't rememer), but I had watched many claymation type things before and I probably thought that it was cool to do.

What about you?

I started about 5 years ago when i recieved a few books from friends/family. Thats what initially got me started. I also got in touch witha few people in the industry and then i just went on from their.

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Arnymate

I started around 2 years ago. I was looking for a Hobie at the time.I was watching TV and this kid poped up on  a commercial saying 'I'm a clay animator!' and
the rest on the commercial was About him animating. so I decided that i give clay animation a try. I got on line picked up a few tutorials.and i was hooked!

Ive always wanted to do it but never actually got underway until about two weeks ago...since then its been like a snowball...i dont seem to have enough time in the day to do what i want to lol =)

I was lucky enough to have some cameras and video programs(also finally bought claymation studio) from doin RC car videos for my local hobby shop.

My story is quite funny actually, I was watching wallace and gromit and decided to just do the old fashion way *record stop recording, move, REPEAT* and i made a legomation, I showed it to my mom and she was like... what the... so then i took it a step futur

Mine is pretty basic really, I found out how stop motion cartoons were made at about 7 years old (Late maybe....lol ignorance), and I was facinated by the idea.

So I had a crappy camera, and my play do and started making small toons. Then I stopped doing it for quite a long time, due to school and such and I kind of forgot about it. D:

And some time last year I really got into it again, and didn't want to let school/college get in the way of doing it anymore.

And here I am.

The end.

well i took a class in claymation at the college of creative studies in detroit about 3 years ago... and that pretty much got me into it..... but i moved on to animating stikfas about 2 years ago

I have been watching movies all my life. When I was little I used to watch Discovery's "Cinema Secrets," a show about special effects. For my 14th birthday my aunt bought me a laptop. I used the intergrated webcam to take pictures, and then learned how to use Windows Movie Maker for stop motion. Most of my early videos were lego, but now I am experimenting with clay and better frame rates with Monkey Jam. I abandoned legos because they are too small to manipulate and I really like building puppets.

I started because I love movies and have nothing else to do.

when i was around 12 i animated lego with the gameboy camera, which could only do 30 b&w frames later i probably watched some 'making of' dvd extra, and mess around with a webcam .