![]() ![]() The purple tyrannosaur on the left looks exactly like Gene Siskel. The grab bag is tied together by two dinosaur movie critics, sitting in a balcony and discussing the films. This festival is a once-over-lightly of Vinton's work, including the jumping frog sequence from the Twain film, other shorts, the John Fogerty music video "Vanz Kant Danz," lots of commercials, an ambitious " Creation" short that re-creates the birth of the universe in clay and the documentary on the process itself. Since then, Vinton, the inventor of Claymation, has made other shorts and a full-length feature ("The Adventures of Mark Twain"), as well as the scary clay creatures in the unfortunate "Return to Oz." There have been many Claymation TV commercials, including the doo-wop group singing "Heard It on the Grapevine" for California Raisins and the Domino's Pizza Puncher. The first Claymation film I saw was called "Closed Mondays," and it won an Academy Award for its story of a clay figure who wanders into an art gallery where the paintings take on a life of their own. Their faces are bold caricatures, their movements are decisive and they have a certain authority. Unlike drawn animation, which often appears flat, Claymation has a depth to it the characters all have backs as well as fronts. Unlike those cheap, quickie Saturday morning TV cartoons from Japan, the Claymation people can't use computer shortcuts. Since there are 24 frames to the second, even a short Claymation film requires tens of thousands of frames. Here, we are targetting the cursor element, we create a variant for the cursor animation, and set the default x and y position of the cursor element using the mousePosition state, mousePosition.x for the cursor element x initial position and mousePosition.y for the cursor element y initial position. Then they advance the film another frame. ![]() After each frame has been exposed, they make tiny adjustments in the facial expressions and limb movements of their characters, sometimes using a film of human actors as their guide. They use a camera that can be locked into place, and they advance their film one frame at a time. For a full-figure character, they begin with a flexible aluminum skeleton and model the body, face and clothing out of clay. ![]()
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