My Claymation

For the 1st quarter's big project, our class had to make a claymation about an European explorer. My friend and I chose the Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus, who is famously known for finding the new world. Our movie follows the life of Christopher Columbus. I hope you will enjoy our movie.

The most enjoyable part for me had to be the whole project. I got to do this project with my best friend, Hayden Nichols, which made the experience much more enjoyable. One of my favorite things Hayden and I did was that we put a little fun in our movie. If you see in the First Voyage scene, we put a little figure in the water and made it so that he got eaten by a shark. We also put a little subliminal message in our "Back in Spain" scene. If you look carefully at the paintings in that scene, you'll see that the portrait of the king looks like a real human. Then look at the queen's portrait. You'll probably notice that it looks like the clay model of the queen in that scene. I thought that that was funny.

One of the toughest part of this project for us was getting the scenes in on time. For the first scene, we had a full week to work on it. That was easy, but then scene 2 was due in 3 days. That was hard for us. Scene 2 and 4 were turned in late. Thankfully my mom had figured out a plan for us. We would take pictures way ahead of the due date, then we could do all the computer work at school. That really worked out for us. We also had a few technical problems. For all of our scenes, we had to individually change each photo to the set 0:00:03 seconds. That really sucked. For all the people that say that there is another way of changing all the pictures' set time at once I'm sorry but you're wrong. We proved about 7 people wrong in my class all the people that thought that they were right. So don't even try.

I think that the most important thing that I learned was patience. There was something going wrong all the time. Sometimes it would be that our clay was getting too hot in Hayden's room, so we had to put them in the freezer. It would also be some technical problems, too. Another part of patience I learned was for the 300 and something pictures we had to take for one scene. Luckily I had Hayden who was my partner because he is really good at the claymation stuff. The last thing that got on my nerves was that stupid recording delio. Whenever we would finish recording, I would click the "stop record" button and it would slice off half the whole recording! We had to make the same recording about 5 times. That was really annoying.

I really hope you will enjoy our movie about Christopher Columbus. It will suck if you don't because we put so much time into this project. I even skipped parts of basketball practice just for your entertainment. So please enjoy this movie.