Claymation - How to Play Checkers - Winner of the OpenLens Film Festival

[Allisoninsky]

@pedalguru89 I don't believe that is a rule.

[ShrikDaddy]

This is great.

[damoninsky]

@ShrikDaddy Thanks!



[shirokuma98]

very well done and very enjoyable

[RST2599]

Never mind.........

[RST2599]

How long did this take to make?

[RST2599]

Were those the same clay charactors? Or did you make other ones and have to keep switching in between filming?

[damoninsky]

@RST2599 They are pretty much the same characters. We each tried to make a replica of their original heads to have at the end, but we pretty much morphed their heads throughout the film.

[mrmorph2001]

Love it AMAZING

[sarahmacfarlane]

LOL the moose!

I love everything about this claymation. Very very very well done!

[damoninsky]

@sarahmacfarlane Thanks!

[kkallie11]

OMG, you guys are awsome at this:D

[damoninsky]

@kkallie11 Thanks, you are too!

[xxdontfretxx]

5:08 looks wrong...

[terrymation]

very cool and an original idea! Congrats on your winning, I bet it felt good after all those long hours that you put into it (I also dabble in claymation once in a while, so I know). Can't wait to see more of your vids.

[damoninsky]

Thanks.

Good luck with your dabbling...it's all tedious fun.

[jamiequinlan]

yea thats awesome! I recon it could be miles bettter, the cameras shaky and lightings poor. on the other hand, theres something about it that just works, keep it up ;)

[xiaoli26]

wot?!?! how you take a picture of a clay IN AIR!?!??!? that's cool~

[damoninsky]

magic strings called fishing line. neat huh.

[damoninsky]

@damoninsky It's actually nylon thread. Sorry about that. Depends on how heavy the objects are you're trying to lift. The lighter they are, always the better!

[BunnyHunterBC]

AMAZING

[Cakenator514]

This is absolutely amazing. This has definitely encouraged me to try harder at stop motions!!

[damoninsky]

Thanks!. I only truly appreciate stop motion animations now since giving this gig a whirl. Good luck with it, you can do it...just go slow:)

[ninjaziou]

I've been working with all kinds of animations most of my life and I hope that one day I'll be half as good as you guys at claymation... VERY easy to appreciate this, amazing work...

[TheSunnyside40]

This is so cool :) most of taken you ages to make d:)

[thekrakowiak4]

oh my god! that's the best claymation video i've ever seen! you're awsome!

[xxtorch20xx]

i wnt to make animations like this wen i get older

[damoninsky]

There's no reason to wait until you're older. Just get some clay and a little digital camera. You'll quickly realize that you can do some pretty fun stuff. It's a fun hobby!

[SachinProductions]

That was amazing. You deserve more views.

[damoninsky]

Thanks!

[Faberfimo]

holy shit i think this is the best claymation

i have ever seen on youtube so im subscribing

[damoninsky]

Thanks a bunch! Did you see our new one? It's called Have A Ball.

[mikelentz2]

Wow! very well done, I liked how the moose was still alive and the people changed places! Excellent work

[Zfairy1]

Excellent I would love to try clay animation I am using 3ds max right now. You really captured the personalities of the characters and even the moose head.

[damoninsky]

Thanks! We just finished another one this week. It'll be up in a few days I hope just after the finishing touches.

[Zfairy1]

Nice this is awesome what program do you use to capture your stop motion? Also do you use Fimo clay for your character or what do you recommended for a beginner?

[leewolochuk]

We take pictures with a regular digital camera and use BTVPro (on a Mac) to turn them into a movie. It is about $50 and can be found online. We use Van Aken clay- it's plasticine.

[Zfairy1]

leewolochuk thanks for your response. I have a PC not a Mac so I will have to see what I can use. Have you heard of this inexpensive software called Claymation Studio I though about using that. I also have the CS4 and 3ds max. I have never heard of that clay. All I have seen in our crafts store here are Fimo and Sculpey products but I will look.

[Guyc00l]

amazing!

[FreshFish610]

Wow! Excellent job! I would never ever ever ever have the patience or endurance to make something like that! Bravo!

[gabsandzvids]

awesome!!

[Bheitzer]

This is great! I love it. Very funny and very well done. The music and sound effects are awesome too.

[glacierghost]

Fabulous. Love the music too!

[Steeeph1713]

wooooooow that must of took ages to do was how did u make them throw it? cause did u do it with sting or what ? wow im so impressed gonna wath it agen its to good. WOOOO SO GOOD ! :P

[willdeuz]

nice work, i know u smoke some yerb thats good, that give u material, good material, good work nice video

[moviemaniac97]

Awsome! People don't seem to understand the time and effort involved in makeing a stop motion video

[Deadsman1993]

This is really good congrats

[evanaxel1]

how many fps?

[damoninsky]

It varies. Mostly 12/sec, but sometimes we went 24, like during the pan while they're throwing things across at one another.

[evanaxel1]

cool almost every video that i make is mostly 17 or 23 fps. What did you make out of the set?

[checkercycle]

Beautiful work, imagination superb and well deserving of your award.

[damoninsky]

Thanks!

[GuillaumeDesrochers]

your two characters are very different. One of them seems more caricatured than the other which is more realistic

[hayley028]

haha omg i love it! great work :D

[sjmovies]

Lol!

[Clover4film]

I saw this at the Northwest Film Festival tonight and really liked it! Hilarious! But you weren't there - where were you?

[damoninsky]

Really? We never heard back from them, so we had no idea. How did it go? How many people where there? We would have loved to have been there. Thanks for the appreciation.

Damon and Lee

[Clover4film]

You never heard from them? That's weird. I didn't go the second day to find out who won, but after reading the comment below, it appears as if you won first place. Congratulations! No, there weren't that many people there, and it's too bad. It was a pretty nice venu and fun to watch the films. I wish I had participated in Joanna Priestly's workshop. I liked her animated flicks. I just don't have the time to pursue filmmaking to the degree I'd like, at this point in my life. Hopefully someday!

[Sprtsgeek]

Wow, that was awesome! Great video!

[damoninsky]

Thanks.

[droog044]

Awesome!

[damoninsky]

Thanks!

[droog044]

No prob. Although.... how do you keep the stuff in the air? Do you use wire and then edit it? And what did you use to make that awesome set?

[damoninsky]

Fishing line is pretty transparent, sometimes it catches the light and has to be edited out (frame by frame). The set took a lot of work, little pieces of cardboard, wood, cloth, wall pattern and pics from internet. Much work goes into making the set. Thanks for noticing.

[droog044]

Cool. How did you handle all those different heads? I've already guessed that y'all had different bodies for the heads and switched them as y'all went along but, how did y'all handle the transition from head to head? Didn't it mess them up?

[damoninsky]

We made two similar heads for each of the characters (along with several in between head stages). Basically we started with one original head, then morphed it throughout the film until we came to the end where we put the duplicate head from the beginning back on. If you look closely (especially at the blond guy), the head at the end of the film is different from the one at the beginning.

[droog044]

Yeah I thought he looked different! Thank you very much for the information.

[FandSproduction]

cunning animation

[coolsoccerplayer]

This is brilliant lol, where do you come up with this stuff??

[damoninsky]

Thanks! We're working on another one right now...this will be way crazy too!

[CrashedFilms]

wow, this is great.

awesome job.

[damoninsky]

Thanks!

[WaterWorkzz]

i like it!

i have some claymations on my page and i'd enjoy it if you had a look at them

*****

[jfreedrix]

5 from me. This is wicked!

[damoninsky]

Thanks!!!

[damberrox]

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[damoninsky]

I don't have myspace. Who are are?

[SshikitO]

exelent

[StoicTwo]

Yo send the to Ifc,Sundance or Adultswim this is cool man!

-StoicTwo!

[theuppercut]

that was so cool. I hope this gets featured some day..

[180919711225]

Excellent, great fun! I watched aw stuck my mouth open wondering what would happen next. Fantastic work!

[damoninsky]

Thanks for that, it makes us feel it was more worth it.

[milesvlad3000]

nice work!5*s

i have a clayation video on my page and i would appreciate it if you could come see and tell me how you like it.

[NasanieruHK]

wow it was good and i kno how hard that is, i have tried it, u got them to move so smoothly

[Funk2D2]

That's awesome!

[NhVider]

lol wtf? its awesome i love it.

[clintonbench]

OOOH! No film is complete without sexual tension... and finally.... the clothes came off! But who won?! Did anyone win?

Oh yeah.... I love it!

[bootsbrisket]

Wow! That was absolutely awesome! Amazing talent! Great story and great animation! Very fun to watch!

[joshyjosh11]

Wow. What a great storyline. Foot tapping music.

I love the hair and clothes switching.

Can't wait for the feature film.

JD