Cool Claymation

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Cool! Claymation!

• Stop Motion Animation

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Agenda

• The Four Foundation Skill Areas
• Explanation Samples of Stop Motion Animation
• Software
• Monkey Jam
• Movie Maker
• Audacity
• Logistics of creating claymation projects
• Hands-on
• Debriefing Clean-Up

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The Four Foundation Skill Areas

• The four foundation skill areas are
• literacy and communication
• problem solving
• human relations
• technology
• The foundation skill areas are required from
  Kindergarten to Grade 12. They are fundamental in
  both teaching and learning and should be part of
  instruction in every subject area.
• -Manitoba Education, Citizenship Youth

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Stop Motion Animation

• Crafting the World of Coraline
• What is stop motion animation anyway?
• Start animating in 7 Easy Steps
• Samples
• TeacherTube
• Claymation Website descriptions samples
• The Three Little Pigs
• Giggle Gum
• French Cendrillon, LArbre Ungali

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Monkey Jam - http//www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys
.com/monkeyjam/download.html

• Tutorial
• Important Reminders
• Pay attention to where your image folder is (ie
  where Monkey Jam is storing the images for your
  stop motion animation)
• Save your Monkey Jam file in the same place
• Give layers a unique meaningful name because
  images will be named the same way. (Helps to
  keep organized and to avoid overwriting files.)

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Helpful Hints

• When making characters talk, simply have mouth
  open close one or two times and then duplicate
  those frames.
• Create natural movements (ex legs move as a
  character walks or runs across the frame)
• Remove undesirable frames before you create the
  .avi movie, if possible
• Clean up your clay!

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Movie Maker

• Once you have exported the Monkey Jam file as an
  .avi movie, you can import the video (and images)
  into Movie Maker.
• Tutorial starting Movie Maker, adding effects
  and audio
• Save your new Movie Maker file into the same
  folder as the rest of your project.

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Movie Maker Tips

• Only video images that are in the timeline are
  actually in your video
• Slow down or speed up action using the video
  effects (right click on the video in the timeline
  and select gt Effects gt Speed up double or slow
  down half)
• To adjust only a portion of the clip, split the
  clip before your apply the effects.
• Narrate the timeline if you dont need any
  additional sound effects

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Audacity Audio Editing

• Use Audacity if you want to add additional sound
  effects or alter voices
• Export the sound file to be used in the video
  (again, make sure that it is being saved in the
  project folder!)
• In Movie Maker, import the sound file into
  collections, then drag it below the video on the
  timeline.

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Finishing Your Project

• In Movie Maker, finish your movie by adding a
  title credits, then go to
• Finish Movie
• Save to my computer (This time you dont have to
  save it in the project folder, however, do pay
  attention to where you are saving it!)

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Thank you!

• If you have questions or videos that you would
  like to share, I would love to hear from you!
• My classroom website is at
• www.hmk.bpsd.mb.ca/Heschuk/index.htm
• My email is
• nheschuk_at_bpsd.mb.ca
• I am nheschuk on Delicious and Diigo.