‘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.
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.