Introduction To Clay Animation For Beginners

Rachel Beaney, Social and Digital

13 Videos (50m)

- What is clay animation?
  
  4:37
- How do I write a script and storyboard?
  
  3:35
- How do I design a clay character?
  
  3:03
- How do I build a set?
  
  7:00
- What do I need to keep in mind with sound?
  
  2:12
- How does the mouth move?
  
  2:09
- What's an exposure sheet?
  
  8:37
- How do add movement to an exposure sheet?
  
  2:23
- Select your monster sound!
  
  2:32
- What do I need for filming?
  
  1:49
- How do I film clay animation?
  
  5:16
- How do I edit my clay animation?
  
  5:38
- What you've learned
  
  1:04

About This Class

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Do you want to learn to create clay animation?

Have you always wondered how clay animation works, but didn't know where to start?

Are you looking for a new fun, creative hobby to jazz up your week?

This course teaches you how to create stop frame clay animation at home, using your smartphone.

You will learn the end-to-end steps for creating stop motion animation, from writing a script, to building characters and sets, to adding audio and lip syncing sound, and filming and editing.

This course is a hands-on course, which you can follow step-by-step to create your own clay animation short film, using a class project as an example. The camera you will be using is the one you've already got - the one on your smartphone!

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Very good course, very informative and lots of resources for students. Highly recommended.

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A very clear information and very very usefull

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Rachel Beaney

Social and Digital

Rachel Beaney is a freelance digital media specialist, with a wide variety of experience in creating multimedia projects, social media and online content.

She has worked as an editor, a social strategist, on social media execution, community management and real-time social media integration. She is fluent in creating engaging content, with a solid technical understanding of the web.

She's worked on social media campaigns for big names like Microsoft, Aussie Home Loans, Network T...

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Skills in this Class:

Crafts Animation Filmmaking Creative Clay Animation Clamation