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'A Clayful Adventure'

‘A Clayful Adventure’

Stopmotion Animation

‘A Clayful Adventure’, 2025

Synopsis:

Discarded Clay takes on Smug Ceramic with shocking consequences. Can they learn to understand and accept one another?

A stopmotion film that explores the relationship between ceramic and clay and the process that goes behind making a ceramic sculpture.

Photograph of a ceramic sculpture in the centre of the screen. Eyes looking downwards with a confused expression towards Clay character who looks up angrily.

Still from animation. Ceramic looks confused as clay looks angrily up. What has Ceramic done to annoy Clay so much?

Still from animation. Ceramic looks shocked as Clay has inflated into a big red ball!

2 Second Teaser Video. Ceramic squishes Clay!

Software:

  • DragonFrame

  • Adobe Premiere Pro

  • Adobe Audition

  • Adobe After Effects

  • Davinci Resolve

Skills and Techniques:

  • Ceramics

  • Painting

  • Sculpting

  • Model making

  • Using moulds

  • Set design

  • Animation

  • Voice Acting

  • Editing

Making Ceramic

Set design and making

Left: Plain Plywood. Right: Pottery workbench

Texture and colour created with various tools including: scrapper, paint, hammer, screwdriver, tea, matt varnish, crushed pebbles, and shoes.

Creating the main shape

Using a bowl as a mould and coiling up with clay until desired height.

Left to dry and used a hairdyer to take it out. Then using extra clay to hide the join.

Hiding Clay behind Ceramic

Using DragonFrame Onion Skin to map out the exact outline for clay to be able to hide behind Ceramic before the reveal.

 

Behind the Scenes

Set and workspace.

Page from Sketchbook showing planning.