Tag: stop motion

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The Teacher’s Claymation Toolkit

Update: Because of the actions of my co-contributor, I’ve taken the videos down.

Over the last couple of years I’ve been distancing myself from Andrew (Andy) and I’m embarrassed to have been associated with him. I’m not at this time deleting the post outright because I think anyone coming here to find the video deserves an explanation that I don’t stand by him but I’m not going to take the easy route of completely nuking the digital footprint but instead leave this as a reminder and warning to collaborate with people who make good choices.

A couple of days ago, I presented with Andy at SWATCA (Teachers’ convention here in Lethbridge). We put together a short how to video for teachers wanting to share with their class how to do stop motion on an iPad.

Here are the how to videos:

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Amazing Jelly Bean Stop-Motion

This music video for Kina Grannis’ song “In Your Arms”, just blows me away. It uses stop motion with Kina in front of a jelly bean background.

Each background is made up of jelly-beans laid out by hand to create the video’s amazing look. This crazy project took 22 months of shooting, 30 people, 2,460 frames, 1,357 hours, and 288,000 jelly beans. What’s even more amazing is that all of the shots with Kina are not created with a green screen — she’s there for every shot.

The making of video is also pretty interesting: