Have been in a mood for claymation lately, so I started dorking around with a simple project this weekend:
It's clay over a superball "armature" (to give you a sense of the scale.) Textured with a toothpick. This is one of the few times that something came out almost exactly as I imagined it. There is a hiccup in the rotation, though. Hoping to cure it by fiddling with the keyframe spacing (rather than reshooting it.)
Also, here's a little star business from last week.
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Ted Nunes - www.tedtoons.com
Are those ball on their own layer?
Yes, I put it together in Flash. The base movie clip contains the original rotation sequence: 30 images of the asteroid as it turns around. Then I dragged three instances of that asteroid, each on its own layer and tweened the scaling and position to create the zooms.
Ted Nunes - www.tedtoons.com