Claymation is a genre of animation, in which clay is used instead of drawings.
Models are prepared and placed in small dioramas, which are ussually made of wood, cloth threads, sand, and other generally rough materials, contrary to the clay of the moving characters. The fact that they are made of clay allows easy manipulation of expressions or of limb movement.
Unlike moving drawings, moving clay can seem to be closer to reality, due to the environment being mostly entirely realistic. The clay figure, ofcourse, replaces the human model, however this too can be seen as a metamorphosis which happened due to the meaning of the story that is presented.
Clay models also make an effect due to their link to early toys, or even kindergarden lessons, where children are asked to form shapes out of plastecine.
Dark claymation is a subgenre. A main example of it is found in the videos created for the band, Tool, by Fred Sturh.
A small, although vague, mythology, is developed in those small movies. The central figure is a poor person, dressed in rags, with a body which can be seen as either roting, or just being normal in the alternate world of the film. Nomatter what is true for the main figure though it is definate that the other figures which infest his vast living environment are far more monstrous than him. The walls of the old rooms partially collapse, so as to reveal a massive, worm-like being which continues its flow-like movements behind the thin, delapidated outer layer of the wall.
Or below the figure which has kneeled on the wooden floor, far away from where it can reach with either its eyes or hands, we get to see a trap of pins, where perhaps a future search might end, with it being impalled on them.
I like dark claymation, and think that it has a lot to offer as an art-form. What are your views?
Models are prepared and placed in small dioramas, which are ussually made of wood, cloth threads, sand, and other generally rough materials, contrary to the clay of the moving characters. The fact that they are made of clay allows easy manipulation of expressions or of limb movement.
Unlike moving drawings, moving clay can seem to be closer to reality, due to the environment being mostly entirely realistic. The clay figure, ofcourse, replaces the human model, however this too can be seen as a metamorphosis which happened due to the meaning of the story that is presented.
Clay models also make an effect due to their link to early toys, or even kindergarden lessons, where children are asked to form shapes out of plastecine.
Dark claymation is a subgenre. A main example of it is found in the videos created for the band, Tool, by Fred Sturh.
A small, although vague, mythology, is developed in those small movies. The central figure is a poor person, dressed in rags, with a body which can be seen as either roting, or just being normal in the alternate world of the film. Nomatter what is true for the main figure though it is definate that the other figures which infest his vast living environment are far more monstrous than him. The walls of the old rooms partially collapse, so as to reveal a massive, worm-like being which continues its flow-like movements behind the thin, delapidated outer layer of the wall.
Or below the figure which has kneeled on the wooden floor, far away from where it can reach with either its eyes or hands, we get to see a trap of pins, where perhaps a future search might end, with it being impalled on them.
I like dark claymation, and think that it has a lot to offer as an art-form. What are your views?
