Do you love Stop Motion? Do you love video games? If so check this out this new game it looks amazing. Its a very original concept, the character design is incredible. I think the creators themselves describe this title perfectly it is “Wallace and Grommit meets Metal Slug.”
On a personal note I love it when two different mediums get together and show us the limitless potential for creativity, Cletus Clay is exactly born of this idea and I take my hat for Anthony, Sarah, Andy and Alex and wish them nothing but success. Believe me we will be watching and I cant wait to get my hands on this game and shoot some serious alien bum!!
About Cletus Clay
What is Cletus Clay™?
A wild and crazy, no-holds-barred, rootin’ tootin’ varmint shootin’ side-scrolling platform brawler for home console, “filmed” entirely in claymation.
What are the main influences for Cletus Clay™?
From Wallace and Grommit to Metal Slug, from 50’s B-Movies to Alien Hominid; Cletus Clay™ has been inspired by an eclectic mix of both retro and contemporary games and films. It also features many sly little in-jokes for pop culture junkies.
How can a console game be filmed in claymation?
Every character and every set is modeled first in clay, then photographed, digitally enhanced and composited into 3d space to create a convincing illusion of an all-clay world.
That sounds insanely difficult. Why would anyone want to do that?
It creates a unique fusion of high technology and hands-on craft, of brightly-coloured cartoon stylings and cutting-edge photographic realism. It’s also an appealing and eye-catching visual style that always attracts plenty of attention. Basically: it looks stylin’.
Who came up with the idea?
Cletus was born in the mind of Anthony Flack. He has previously created stop-frame animation games Bert the Barbarian and the highly successful Platypus.
I do have to say I am a sucker for stop motion and a bigger sucker for Disney, so when i saw that they joined forces i got really exited, even if its just for a commercial, and its a cute commercial as well, enjoy.
And while we are at the Disney theme, i saw this crazy video of what looks like Disney World shot with a tilt shift effect and i loved it. Ill share it with you, please enjoy.
When I’m not glued to my computer writing about movies, I’m stuck to my studio chair — up to my ears in the ramshackle contraptions I create that often take over my entire table, floor and other areas of the apartment. Part of my art repertoire is creating miniature worlds out of anything I can find and inserting characters strung together from a bizarre assortment of materials. A demented dollhouse disguised as art? Perhaps. But I’m not content to toy with their floppy, awkward bodies as I once did in my younger years. In order to breathe life into these figures, I manipulate them for stop-motion video shoots.
Plastic toys inhabit the world of Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar in their 2009 stop-motion animation film, A Town Called Panic, which revolves around the adventures that a group of plastic toys (the essential Cowboy, Indian and Horse) encounter as they go about their daily lives. It’s a zany good time.
Check out this great animation with some great music, and also there is a making of so please check it out. It will show the pain the animators go through, and not only they suffer, but also the friend…
Please check it out its really worth watching. Congratulations for this great pice.
Stop Motion Animation ‘Grindin”
Director: Rogier van der Zwaag
Music: Grindin’ by Nobody Beats The Drum
(available on the EP ‘Focus’ out on Satan’s Circus; vl.am/mB9 )
At the end of the eighth day, the creator has found refugee in a dark dungeon. Obsessed with transcending he manipulates life to an extreme and tries to create the perfect being that will immortalize him.
Part 1
Part 2
Mexican short film done in 2000
Directed by Juan Jose Medina/Rita Basulto
Produced by Guillermo del Toro
Rene Castillo directs this fantastic tale where a man arrives to the world of the dead where a worm welcomes him. Smiling skeletons and the Catrina herself show him that being dead is not so bad… Pay close attention to the character design, and animation and lets not forget that beautiful song that the Catrina sings.
Awards
Annecy International Animated Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize – Special Mention
Ariel Awards, Mexico – Silver Ariel
Aspen Shortsfest – Animated Eye Award
Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival – Best Short Film
Havana Film Festival – Grand Coral – First Prize
Huesca Film Festival – Golden Danzante
Leipzig DOK Festival – Golden Dove
Lleida Latin-American Film Festival – Special Mention
Mexican Cinema Journalists – Silver Goddess
Montréal World Film Festival – First Prize (Short Films)
Ottawa International Animation Festival – OIAF Award
Palm Springs International ShortFest – Jury Award
World Animation Celebration – WAC Winner
Clean It Up. A stop-motion video featuring animated lips that clean up a rundown home. I wonder if this animated lips can come over to my place and do a clean up…. please…..
Art by: Goons, a street artist out of Chicago
Directed by: Ace Norton
Music: Keep It Clean by Camera Obscura
Sponsored by: Orbit
Agency: Evolution Bureau
Great work is being done all over the world and we would love to show you. This space is open for animators or animation lovers to send us their work so we can show you the great diversity out there.
This animation was directed by Salvador Tovar. It was the final selection for the contest “Anima tu Sueño”
On a personal note I would like to point out the great job they did with the lighting of this work. Hope you guys enjoy.
Thank you Divulgación IMCINE for showing us!
Our new spotlight if the month is one of our favorite stop motion animators and has been highlighted numerous times in our blog. Kyle Roberts has a new video coming out soon! Check it out!
