The Busker (Bristol UWE Animation)

[sneezlehose]

I cant even start to explain how amazing that truly was

[narutofreak12312312]

Masterpiece!

[GOODBYEskateteam]

That was amazing! Really creatively done!

[nikIconway]

Ahh, so I see, so I seee^^ so, well for some of the other ones, just done by yourself, where would you be making them? Gotta office or room you do them in your place? Or is there somewhere else you go?

[nikIconway]

:o really? So it has no reference to shrooms? :)

[TheClayLord]

@nikIconway Well it's based on the stereotype of a mushroom trip. I wouldn't say no reference : )

[nikIconway]

Ohh:o with the name mushroom tea, I would assume shrooms helped you a little thinking that one up?

[TheClayLord]

@nikIconway Lol, believe it or not they didn't. I would never have finished it if I was on shrooms : )

[nikIconway]

I'm happy to support! Where do you come up with your ideas? I wish I was as creative as that:D

[TheClayLord]

@nikIconway With this one a team of 3 of us all agreed upon a storyboard after a couple of weeks of us changing our minds about the plot. But my most recent one is much more off the top of my head, just patterns, shapes and movements that seemed like they would look cool in motion.

[nikIconway]

This is amazing, I absolutely love it! Keep it up! I'll deff support anything you guys do, I love it!!!-3

[TheClayLord]

@nikIconway Cheers, it's always nice to have friendly support =)

[Mackmation]

Very cool!  Nice work to all 3 of you.

[alphastick108]

nice, this is very impressive

[TheBabbleBeast]

Great atmosphere -- that really drew me into the story!

[damianskye01]

Did you cover the hands with paper Mache?

[TheClayLord]

@damianskye01 It was actually just a wire armature of a hand covered with masking tape and painted flesh tone. Not a common method, but it worked with the style of the film.

[TheSJproduction]

Haha! That WAS SO COOL!!!!! I love stopmotion like these, it was so smooth. The story was pretty cool too

~SJ~

[claymationvids]

@TheSJproduction whoa sj! didnt expect to c u here! (dunno why)

[blobofblue]

wow, awesome job!

[IDontKnowCorp]

Quite Awesome, LOVED the puppet design

[Kewen]

Really great :D

[frodehegland]

Brilliant!

[PEACEnum1]

So he just have to dance. =)

[PEACEnum1]

Amazing!

[alexsnowskate]

Wow! Tottally amazing job!

[terrymation]

this is just so great. It's a really short, simply and fun story that is played out very well. I also enjoyed how this is so different than your usual work. Love the details of his hair flowing, the whole look of his character and his movements. Congrats on finishing this!

[plellovision]

Wow, nice work, good story, well done.

[thatkeith]

Blown away!

[FeelingGoodFilms]

Amazing :')

[BlinkPhaseVideos]

very good job i loved it

[TheAwesomekman]

wow i'm so glad to see you moving on to more advanced styles of animating! you could definitely go somewhere with talent like that!

[LlamaBoyProductions]

oh my goodness, you are SUCH an inspiration, wow! you are so incredible, i can't express how great this was in words! about how large was the model? and what was he made of, the hands looked sort like papery, so amazing!

[TheClayLord]

@LlamaBoyProductions Cheers. The puppet is about 9 inches or so tall with a ball and socket armature underneath. The characters shape is padded out with packaging foam with the clothes sewn to it.

The head is made from baked sculpey plasticine which was then painted.

As for the hands, they are thin wire armatures layered up with masking tape and acrylic paint.

[LlamaBoyProductions]

@TheClayLord wow, how did you even think of making it look like that, and then figure out how to make it? so is there like simple metal figures you can buy then cover with clay? cause that sounds awesome, although that wouldn't really work for me since i make morphs, haha, so great! how many FPS do you shoot?

[LlamaBoyProductions]

@TheClayLord oh, sorry to reply twice, but what did you make the set out of, and about how big was that? also for flying things, like the bottle cap thing bowncing, was that masked?

[TheClayLord]

@LlamaBoyProductions Ball and socket armatures don't come too cheap as they are pretty specialist but they can be a good investment if you'r gonna use them a lot. This was shot entirely at 25 fps in singles.

We did use simple wire rigs to suspend the bottle cap and coins and then used After FX to edit them out.

[LlamaBoyProductions]

@TheClayLord wow, what was the hardest part? like the editing, the animation of the character, the movements, making the sand move, just wondering, because a project like this is incredible! :) i probably won't try anything like this cause of money and the fact that i don't make "story" films, but you did amazing! again, i think i've said this before, but how do you always match the music so well? not nesesarily this one, but in your films it matches so perfectly, do you pick it out before? :)

[TheClayLord]

@LlamaBoyProductions I really enjoyed all of the animation stage, and didn't find it particularly taxing. The editing wasn't hard either but a very tedious process editing each sound effect. The hardest part was trying to get myself out of bed to go to the uni each morning lol.

In my other films I tend to play it by ear for the soundtrack. Sometimes I will be building the animation directly around the soundtrack, but for most of my compilation videos I just think about it while animating

[lydz25]

Great story :D Kept my interest thruout

[Sukomoto00]

soo cool loved it you are so good

[TheSukmoto]

amazing this is so good loved it

[Poonybug]

Amazing animation. 

[Jpach33]

you sir, are epic.

[kdogsciencefreak]

AMAZING :D great job and awesome animation

[MultitudeofRandom]

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