Clay animation

How is Clay Motion created? - Well, you create your characters with clay and place them in position and in the background that you want. You then shoot an image of that and make a tiny adjustment and then..... shot an image of that & so on... :). Usually claymation runs at about 10-12 frames per second instead of the more usual 24 frames per second used in films.

The video below is a clay animation film for a sports advertisement for 'Buffalo Bills' which is an american Football team.
In the future i would definitely want to achieve something similar to this. The creators used clay to create every single one of the props which i can imagine would have been very time consuming to make and then film.

The first clay animation film was 1933's film 'King Kong' The fight scene between the giant ape and a tyrannosaurus rex was achieved using claymation, or stop-motion, animation techniques.
The most famous exponent of these films nowadays is Nick Park of Aardman Animation, the creator of the infamous Wallace and Gromit characters.

Heres an example of clay animation that me and some classmates created in one of our lessons!
There are a lot of differences in comparison from the film i created and the film that in the above video. No, we did make all of our props out of clay and we only had 2 characters that move unlike the other video where most of the props moved! even the plant! (Which were fully made out of clay ^^). The buffalo bills commercial also used better sound effects and they added much more detail to their characters and props to make it look a bit more realistic.
It was pretty hard to tell that the objects were made by clay in the first video and you have had to have a real eye for the different types of animation techniques to be able to tell that it was a clay animation.