Here's another animation I did today. I didn't do too good on it however. The arms of the guy kept giving me too much trouble, and I wasn't able to portray it how I imagined. At the start, he's supposed to be rubbing his hands. I guess you do good on some, bad on others, that's what practice is for.
I'm actually in Taiwan. I'm not sure of the formula I'm using, I used Van Aken last year some, but I never really got around to animating anything so I'm not sure how well it would animate. Based on the couple of tests I did, I think it would do better, but I'm not sure. It does melt, or get soft fairly easily. If the AC isn't on, it gets pretty soft. That may be the problem, when I animate I turn the AC on so I don't start sweating and stuff, so the clay gets harder and cracks. I have some Van Aken coming by shipment, so I should be able to compare them in not too long. Here's an image of the package of the stuff I'm using.
Hey Kramer, yeah I see what you mean about the anatomy. I haven't tried animating arms that way but it makes sense. What type of clay are you using on these? I know you went to Japan. The formula for clay there I'm guessing is similar to Van Aken - but I can only go by how the clay looks in these movies. Does it melt easily? Or is it kind of firm? I find that Newplast cracks and it's a bit more stiff - most likely from the added wax.
Yah, I broke down the time using a stopwatch, looking back at it, I think it was more of a problem with the figure. It's kinda hard to translate human actions to something that isn't anatomically correct. Plus it gets really annoying when his arms keep almost falling off. I wonder in Van Aken cracks as much as the stuff I'm using right now.
I like this one Kramer, maybe it's not how you imagined but its still nice. I think if you plan the timing by using a mirror and a stop watch it could help. It's really a matter of breaking it down properly into your frames per second.
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