The Offended Orange: A stop motion clay animated video using Monkey Jam

This is the very first public display of stop motion clay animation from Snoogly Productions.
I got the idea for such a silly short film after planning to animate a face on a ball of clay. I figured that I would go ahead and make that ball a fruit. But what would a piece of fruit say? "The apple hurt my peelings" is so incredibly rediculous, but made for an easy way to test lip sync. I think that all things considered, this test film came out better than I expected.
This animated short film was shot using a Logitech QuickCam web camera with Monkey Jam, a frame capture program available online. It was edited using Windows Movie Maker. Audio capture used Audacity, also available online, and the lip sync was accomplished using Papagayo from another internet download. This animation runs at twelve frames per second and took nearly six hours to animate. Resculpting the face each frame is a time intensive process, but the results are well worth the effort!
I hope to upload more animated videos in the future, but time is not always on my side. Anyway, enjoy and God bless!

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[ThePictureteam]

what program do you use. please respond. and do you use a tripod to keep the camera still?

[snooglyproductions]

@ThePictureteam Thanks for the question. I used a program called Claymation Studio. It is inexpensive and effective, though I have since started using the free animation enternet download called Monkey Jam which works very well. Also, if you do not use a tripod, don't do animation. There is no way the video will be of good quality if the camera is not well mounted.

[flyingasp]

@snooglyproductions nuh uh i have monkeyjam and i use a webcam sitting on a carpet still works great.

[snooglyproductions]

@flyingasp I apologize for having said "don't do animation without a tripod." I do not think that one should give up a hobby over this matter, but I did mean that if you want consistantly good quality animation, a tripod is 100% necessary. You currently have none of your animation posted on your channel, so you have nothing with which to back up your correction of me, but regardless, I will politely suggest to all reading that a webcam on carpet will not give consistant results.

[EGClanProductions]

dude how do we inject sound into are video please answer quick as possible!?

[snooglyproductions]

@EGClanProductions Okay, now I can finish the explanation. So, after you import the audio file into Papagayo, you select how many frames per second your animation is, and then the program breaks up the soundtrack into the same amount. Then, you can figure out precisely what frame you need to move the character's mouth to make the sound you need. The program is truly revolutionary when you consider that originally, someone had to physically write the sound made on the audio recording tape.

[Adsapaps]

THAT'S AMAZING! well done!

[thedirector1111]

funny

[flyingasp]

@snooglyproductions if you see this read my other reply first if you havent.

but he may let me upload one so you can see.

[flyingasp]

@snooglyproductions its not on the channel because i use my dads account. yes, he knows.

[ePrebbs]

This is so cute and amazing and funny! I love it! You're amazing and Iove the joke, 'the apple hurt my peelings'! HAHAHA! Immense coolness!

[lizzasrockstar]

@snooglyproductions u can also use windows movie maker or imovie

[TheBadBuffalo]

good joke

[ThePictureteam]

@snooglyproductions Ok thanks!!! :)