Introduction to clay animation

Speaking of clay animation, we have to talk about Oman Animation Studio in Britain, the world's top s top animation production company, which has made outstanding achievements in clay animation production: Chicken Run, which is well known to the public, and Cool Dog Baby series, Wash the Mouse, which was all the rage in 2005. Director nick park is the owner of Oman Animation Company. He calls himself a "filmmaker based on clay animation" and has many ideas and talents. When I was two years old, I drew a room full of beautiful trains with "permanent" pen drawing on the newly installed and maintained kitchen wall. In order to chip in to buy an 8 mm camera, he worked hard in a chicken packaging factory all summer, and thousands of dead chickens flowed on the production line every day, which became his inspiration for writing "Chicken Run". Today, he is a world-famous animator, filmmaker and creative artist with many admirers. China's clay sculpture animation has also developed. For example, this year's movie "Police and Thieves" directed by Zhai of Animation Institute is quite humorous and adapted from a famous sketch. Unlike Chicken Run, which only changed one organ on the face, this time the police and thieves used "head-changing". Zhai Yiyi said, "We have made more than 150 portraits of clay figurines in Peisi Chen, and even his smile is meticulous to every portrait."

However, the production of clay sculpture animation is extremely complicated, and its artistic value is divorced from its commercial value. Like ink animation, it faces an unsustainable embarrassing situation, which has also become the main factor limiting its development (fortunately, clay animation can only be developed by super masters like Oman, and I hope our ink animation can also usher in its own spring as soon as possible). Take Cool Dog Baby as an example, there are as many as 30 light animation technicians. However, it still takes two years to complete the whole film-making process, because it may take only three seconds to shoot 24 hours a day, which is different from ordinary two-dimensional animation, which can take a pencil draft before shooting to check whether the picture meets the requirements, but clay can't. A shot must be done in one go, 24 frames per second, an 80-minute clay.