I made claymations with children in Year 2 – up to approximately 60 individuals combined over the course of a term. In small groups the children model plasticine to make characters, use a combination of paint and various artistic materials to make sets, record their voices/sound effects and then animate using the stop-motion technique with an iPad and the iStopmotion app.
I have also worked with Year 4 children to make animations using the Scratch coding website. These children used their own drawn characters and backgrounds.
For each of these projects I created the storyboards, directed and edited the animations. I was responsible for leading the workshops for all making, filming and recording tasks.
A total of nine animations have been made over the years that I worked at Ursula Taylor School.
The claymation mini epics have ranged from biblical classics – such as Noah's Ark, the Creation and Easter stories – to King Arthur, The Turtle & The Monkey and, most recently, The Jumblies (a poem by Edward Lear).
Themes for the Scratch works have included Spartacus, two Roman animated quizzes and the ancient story of Beowulf. (This version takes a humorous view of the hero Beowulf's life-long saga. It pits him in triumphant battles against the monster Grendel, his mother and later a vengeful dragon.)
The claymation mini epics have ranged from biblical classics – such as Noah's Ark, the Creation and Easter stories – to King Arthur, The Turtle & The Monkey and, most recently, The Jumblies (a poem by Edward Lear).
Themes for the Scratch works have included Spartacus, two Roman animated quizzes and the ancient story of Beowulf. (This version takes a humorous view of the hero Beowulf's life-long saga. It pits him in triumphant battles against the monster Grendel, his mother and later a vengeful dragon.)
Noah's Ark flamingo
God character
A cherub plays a harp
