How do you make things float in a claymation?
With regular movies the camera filming “snaps” a photograph roughly every 1/8 of a second. With claymation or for any form of animation 8 to 16 photographs are taken of the “actor” in different positions. Each of these photographs are sequenced together to make just 1 second of animation. If you put this in a broad perspective a 2 hour long animation could have taken from 120 to 144,000 photographs to be created. If you consider the parts of each segment to have been another 1/16 of the rest of the production you could be using 1.5 to 3 million different photographs. Actually, objects getting thrown is easiest of all of cinematic special effects. Photographs of the objects are projected through transparencies onto a blue screen and different angles of the background are put in afterward. That’s how Hollywood made people think a man could “really” fly. George Lucas created an industry based solely on all these optical effects that had been used in all of the Star Wars movies. Yes, my fr
