How I made my claymation videos

[khansaa000]

I like it :)

[BKoiBK]

Your voice is balls!...nah i'm joking ey.

[msmso4]

Exceptional explanation! Thanks James! You the Man... uh, the Clay-Man, that is! Hope to see more of your work as you continue to progress.

[JoeydaButcher]

Where do u find plastic clay?

[TheLameHamster]

nice one mate i love your characters! keep it up!

[coolgaminfunny]

i use honetach claymation studio 2.00 trial

[thedarkoneGORL]

5/5

[cameron70107]

i use windows movie maker

[wagadoraii]

how do you make it talk

[TridentLightning]

i can't figure out how to put audio in the video to make your people talk.

[kleinkopffff]

Well you need a Mic. then go into programs and accesories and youl see voice recorder. Record you're voice and save uit in the file you want. Go on movie maker and click import audio or music on the side. then go into the file u saved it in and click on it. ten it will import and you can put it on the time line

[TridentLightning]

how do you make them talk?

[eerietube]

really cool, thanks for this.

[pivot500]

dude i use stop motion pro

[jimmitsu]

whatever works

[ThatClayGuy]

@jimmitsu I use a samsung S850 digital camera, and windows movie maker to make my animations.

[OrangeFuzz58]

Wow dude, that was alot of help

[jinx1941]

dude i was gonna do videogame vids but i wanna do claymation vids youve inspired me 2 make them thx man :)

[jonaslover2028]

i have the same exact stereo! thanks it really helps

[fricitonator]

dude thx you rock keep it up. oh and nice claymation to

[higuything21]

one more tip take smaller movements and keep the camera still

[gregorykeegan13]

Dont worry man,that was very detailed.

Helpful too.....

Now I think im going to make my own claymations.

[carscrashfastnow]

dude i have th same mohawk no joke but i mines blue thx for the vid dude you rock

[jimmitsu]

your welcome

[goryLunatic]

great tutorial

[yiziee]

omg it's sooooo helpful thanks soooo much ^^keep it up 10x

[KyTyJaw11]

Great video. Awesome. It really helped me a lot. The only problem I'm having is getting my camera hooked up to the computer. I have it plugged in, put it is in transfer mode, so it is much harder to do stop motion or claymation. My camera is a Nikon Coolpix S210. If anyone could help, I would greatly appreciate it. I am posting a video on that. But anyway, You're video was very helpful to me and I've suscribed

[jimmitsu]

thanks

[HomoGoldfish]

Thanks good man. That was a great tutorial

[vladimation]

cool, what mic do you use for your claymations?

[cgxtreme7]

.good tutorial!

you know if you go to tools>options>advanced on moviemaker, you can change the picture duration of ALL the pictures on the timeline so you dont need to shorten all of the individual shots one at a time. Then you can use the speed up double effect on each shot to make the sequence even smoother!!!! Just for future reference....

[scar424]

can u speed up double on all of them?

[cgxtreme7]

yeah. so if you bring one pic to .13 seconds, and then add the speed double effect, itll bring it down to .07 seconds. you can do it to all of them.

[scar424]

can u walk me through the tools-options-advanced coz when i set it to the shortest speed on the number things nothing happens (do u need to select them all or sumthin plz reply!)

[cgxtreme7]

you need to set that first, and then add the pic sequence

[garysquirrelreviews]

......how come wmm is so crap? im getting no where near 15fps even when i speed it up double!

what do you use is animatordv anygood (the free one)

[KyTyJaw11]

use animatorDV for a little while. If you have a mac, get istopmotion. If you have Windows, get Adobe Premiere Elements

[nobovideoz]

or sony vegas, it works well...

[secrecyguy]

Not bad. You should re-title your video to How to do Claymation on the cheap. I know several people do it using more expensive software and equipment to do it. But the way you did it is very simple and cheap. Good job!

[jimmitsu]

tahts not a bad thought, but the reason why i uploaded this is because one of my buddies wanted to know how i make my films.

[Crasses]

nice hair cut

[CBarker1995]

nice hair cut

[mayreal13]

thank you soo much ...i have windows movie maker so now i am gonna try

[chancescheatz]

thanks man! I didnt know much about making stop action films, so i thought you needed expensive software, or stop-motion cameras. I have tried taking pics and reducing them, but i got a crappy framerate. I never tried zooming in and reducing them. Awesome!

[Smoothasbutta1]

wow ur amazing and smart keep it up!

[pyshcoshorty]

sweet vid

[chocochocomilk]

hey man thanks it helped me alot and i have a questoin how do you upload it onto windows moviemaker?

[chocochocomilk]

sweet thanks man it helped me alot but one question how do you upload it onto windows moviemaker?

[carlos173456]

hey man soorry that i offended you in any way but thats how i talk to all my freinds we call each eachother pussy asshole kike bitch turd ect... but yeah thank you for telling me that i cant cuss in any of your vids

[jimmitsu]

its cool

[carlos173456]

thanks man your asshole now im going to know that its gonna take time making the claymation im going to mkae one in the summer becuease its the only time i get to make them unless i do have time.

[jimmitsu]

ahh ok

[axehero123]

Nice tutorial, thanks. Could you maybe make one showing how to make those figures like the one you had?

[imyourleader]

Thanks man you make it look so easy

[JDM769]

u r awesmest

[BubbleCow]

this rules and totally helps. !!!5!!!

[Domut]

dude u rule thx a mill no i can make claymation woot ^_^ peace dude

[bloodykilljoy84]

how do u add voices?

[steinerfilms]

You can use a microphone and record voices and add them in.

[joseph3112]

If you don't got a micraphone, plug your headphones if you have them into the micraphone hole, and they work just like the micraphone!

[VitalianiJ]

sweet!

[guyanaman56]

that was the best torturial video on how to make claymations. thx soooooooooooooooo much, just tell how to add audio. props man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sekko86]

my wmm isn't cool as yours :( your is way faster than mine!

[meneermalik]

Cool man. Thanks for the info. You make it look so easy.

[kooky665]

how do i add voices?

[rct3frk]

You use a mic.

[kooky665]

finnaly i now to make claymation but how do add voices?

[wazzer1991]

nice!! helpful video!! no offence but you should lose the mohawk

[jimmitsu]

Im glad you thought my video was helpful, But my hair is my hair and I should what ever I want with it.

[liberatecrazy]

yeah, ignore the person.... i love the 'hawk!

[SkooterMan101]

this help alot

thnx

[JDM769]

thanks now i know how to make effects

[DXFan1269]

i dont have clay but i have play dough will that work?

[jimmitsu]

yeah that will work. Anything good be used for stopmotion.

[JDM769]

dude my friend was looking for a quick and non expensive claymation program so when i saw this i had to tell him

[hascar38]

i got the same computer.

[vanfiffle]

Got some new idears Jim.

[bikerseven]

thank for this

[directercody]

hey jim it's me cody thanks for making the video I did not know it was on your youtube page thanks again man.

[ArakniD]

Hey man, Love that you dont want the art of Claymation to die, I'm with you. Awesome stuff dude, but I seriously reccomend a digital camera and a program called Anasazi Stop Motion Animator. Look it up, it will make your work SOOO much easier.

[xzxz619]

i need help how do i chage my frames per second?

[XXAbaXX]

thanks this really helped me

[jowwykun]

that's where i went wrong...didn't use wire to make the skeleton for my figurines

[invertedcheese]

how do you make the person? My sound isn't that good and I couldn't hear what you said. (I need new speakers) :)

[ArakniD]

He said that he makes an "endoskeleton". and places the clay over it.

Basically, get some failry sturdy metal wire, and make the characters skeleton. Then, place clay over it. For more indepth help, visit:

animateclay DOT com

[brandonnikka]

this is KooL im going to try my own =]

[whizzedoutwoz]

that was great m8, not that im going to try it, but its nice to see how you make your excellent claymation videos.

[jimmitsu]

thanks

[xzxz619]

duDE I DONT HAVE A CAMERA THAT CAN TAKE FAST PICS LIKE THAT I JUST HAVE NIKON DIGITAL CAMERA IS THAT OK?

[jimmitsu]

what ever works

[xzxz619]

How di i make the frames per second go faster becuase its really slow

[cookiefacebitch]

just go to tools->options->then lower the clip duration!