The Mine. Copyright 1995. Peter Andrew Montgomery. Claymation. WITH ZERO PLOT LINE.

This is a clay animation I made when I was 18 in 1995. Shot on a VHS camera that could take single frames. The whole thing was animated on a desk in my room in the old house no bigger than 5ft long by 2ft wide. The set sections were bits of old box fillings and some made parts. The figures are 5"tall. Each new set was created by moving things around with some new added parts. The back projection stuff was puppets animated infront of a TV monitor form a video machine advanced one frame at a time after the puppets were moved. The final train sequence showdown was the same technique but with trace paper over the monitor to remove lines. This could be done with an HD plasma now to a near if not perfect back pro image. Provided the content in the forground was filmed also in HD. Still. this was 1995. The run time is about 19 / 20 mins. Written / directed / Puppets / sets and animated by Peter Andrew Montgomery. Winner of real to reel 1997 out of 1,500 etries from all over the UK. Then only 10mins were completed. The audio was dubbed direct from Cassettes to the VHS master. Edited in camera. No computers were used in the 1995 version. But some added matching style FX Like explosions / lasers and gun flashes were cut in digitally in 2003. That's the version here. Oh and the sets lights were done with L.E.D bulbs.

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[penguinboy247]

This is fantastic. It feels just like an old movie. Really impressive stuff. I am trying to aim myself in the direction to make cinematic animations like this. I found this very inspiring!

[kezadrone]

@penguinboy247 Gald I inspired you to press on with your own work. Even if this is a golden oldie. cheers.

[jquinc093]

very good, had me hooked from the beginning! Was this your first attempt at animation?

[kezadrone]

@jquinc093 I made another two claymation films before this one. But my very first stuff was in the early 90's.

[kezadrone]

@jquinc093 No I started in 1989.

[Vortex42]

Love it Peter!

[animateclay]

Wow Peter, this is some very sophisticated stuff for an 18 year old. There's quite a few shots where your animation timing is really good. Like the shotgun blast to the silver bad guy towards the beginning. A lot of newbies have a hard time grasping that sort of thing. Over-all really cool stuff!

[animatorIsomer]

Bloody Brilliant!!! I was riveted from start to finish.