Klayworld

February 5, 2006 7:03 PM

I'm not your friend anymore. Let's go kamping. Or bungee jumping. -- A treasure trove of hilariously bizarre stop-motion Flash animations featuring little blue claymation dudes.
posted by Gator (12 comments total)

Cute, kinda funny. Not very well animated, but hell-- the kid's only 18.

P.S. Claymation is a registered trademark of Laika, Inc. (formerly Will Vinton Studios). Not that it really matters. I'm just sayin', is all.
posted by dersins at 7:27 PM on February 5, 2006 [1 favorite]

Look. I'm a duck.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 7:29 PM on February 5, 2006

Yep, kinda funny.
posted by shanevsevil at 8:05 PM on February 5, 2006

I LOVE this.

Its modern political discourse laid bare.
posted by wayside at 8:34 PM on February 5, 2006

I think they need to focus on the dialogue more.
posted by TwelveTwo at 12:53 AM on February 6, 2006

Or he does, that is.
posted by TwelveTwo at 12:54 AM on February 6, 2006

Cool, I'm starting to do a bit of this in my spare time and it is good to see someone else has the same hobby.
posted by sciurus at 5:48 AM on February 6, 2006

Heh. I love the dialogue:

"I'm stuck in the VCR! Ow."
"How did you get stuck in the VCR?"
"I, I just wanted to have my own TV show."
[later]
"Uh-oh..."
"What? What, what do you mean uh-oh, what happened?"
"I went further into the VCR!"
"Why did you go further into the VCR, that just makes things harder for me."
"Uh, can, am I on TV yet?"
posted by Gator at 5:54 AM on February 6, 2006

Because I'm anal -- these animations are neither stop-motion nor Flash nor Claymation.
posted by Robot Johnny at 3:16 PM on February 8, 2006

How are they not stop-motion or Flash? He appears to use stop-motion gear, and imports the finished movies into Flash. Why must you make me scratch my head, Robot Johnny?
posted by Gator at 5:58 PM on February 8, 2006

My mistake, Gator... I only watched it briefly enough, and the video quality was so poor, it just looked like cheap 3D graphics and not actual stop-motion. As for Flash, okay, yeah it was presented in Flash, but I get uppity when people call something Flash animation when the animation itself wasn't created IN Flash. Like I said... anal.
posted by Robot Johnny at 7:12 AM on February 9, 2006

Ah, I gotcha.

Yeah, I actually wish he would present them in their original .avi format -- he knows they're lower-quality this way, but he likes to submit them to Flash sites like Newgrounds.

Claymation has become a genericized trademark, like cellophane, it seems. I guess Vinton/Laika never bothered to crack down on usage of the term...
posted by Gator at 7:22 AM on February 9, 2006