Claymation zombie film

I did a 5 second bumper for my film productions animating the Archie Mcfee Avenging Unicorn Playset and it only took 50 moves at about 2 frames per move. I did it against a green screen so I had no sets pieces to fiddle with and it still took us about 5 hours to produce and edit.
If you want to see it, here is a link to a blog post.
http://imtheonebehindthecamera.blogspot.com/2008/02/yeah-animation.html

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#7 posted by Akasha, August 21, 2008 11:34 AM

That blood smeared bow and smile at the end was adorable!

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#8 posted by Takuan, August 21, 2008 11:48 AM

Bravo! The kind of quiet good taste I so admire! Very shibui.

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#9 posted by FrankenPengie, August 21, 2008 11:51 AM

Absolutely *not* less than perfect.

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#10 posted by Lea A Franco, August 21, 2008 11:56 AM

@erict Well, that's a sort of unicorn chaser.

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#11 posted by EricT, August 21, 2008 12:01 PM

@Lea
When I originally posted the blog entry I had hoped to whore some views out of it. But at the time I was also a noob reading BB. I did not until later actually get the meaning and intent if the whole Unicorn Chaser thing. And Infact I did remove the tag from the post before I made my post.

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#12 posted by RJ, August 21, 2008 12:23 PM

That was awesome. Had to watch it twice. The other movies on their website are also amazing, if not a bit macabre. Well done!

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#13 posted by Jeff, August 21, 2008 12:37 PM

Barfing up one's own guts--it's funny in claymation. Or at least I thought so. But I wouldn't want to see the real thing.

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#14 posted by membrain, August 21, 2008 12:48 PM

Awesome, thanks Mark!

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#15 posted by jathomas, August 21, 2008 1:27 PM

Chainsaw Maid II! Chainsaw Maid II!!!

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#16 posted by anthony, August 21, 2008 1:32 PM

Good Lord that was terrible. I mean just awful.
And also:
"They're coming to get you, Day-Vee".

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#17 posted by Foolster41, August 21, 2008 2:14 PM

It was actually kind of funny how over the top it was, and actually not incredibly gory seeming to me, since it still looked like clay guts. (Not incredibly realistic.) Her puking her entire guts including her brain at last made me laugh. Suuuuree.
The cowering master of the house while the maid stands there, protective was funnny. (what a wuss the guy is!) The tiny maid being able to use the chainsaw as a weapon was also silly. Even a really fit guys would have trouble with a chainsaw as a weapon.And after all that horror no one's puking. She just smiles and bows? I think from the way she handles that chainsaw she's done this before.

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#18 posted by bruhinb, August 21, 2008 2:27 PM

Check out the source of the creepy music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYSYlVFF_94

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#19 posted by Junior Mad Scientist, August 21, 2008 2:35 PM

Housekeeper/Zombie Slayer/Adulteress

????

Kind of presumptuous, no? I don't remember seeing a plasticine ring on the guy's finger. Hers either. It could be a Courtship-Of-Eddie's-Father thing --- the housekeeper tires of waiting for the thick-headed widower to notice her.

Oh, yeah. Mrs. Livingston was hot. I bet she could handle a chainsaw, too.

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#20 posted by piker62, August 21, 2008 4:04 PM

I can't watch YouTube at work... are they slow zombies or fast zombies?

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#21 posted by Bonnie, August 21, 2008 5:17 PM

So awesome! It's like the Davey and Goliath meet Evil Dead!

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#22 posted by justONEguy, August 21, 2008 5:54 PM

Loved the camera moves that mimic live-action cameras and those gaping maws! It seems that zombies and claymation are a match made in heaven... OR HELL!

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#23 posted by Clay, August 21, 2008 6:00 PM

Perhaps only from Japan can emerge a work of such simultaneously high calibers of horror and cuteness.

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#24 posted by Pipenta, August 21, 2008 8:54 PM

Please don't call it Claymation, please don't. That's a copyrighted name that Will Vinton made up and it is a horrible lumpy and pointless word.

There's no such thing as celmation, sandmation, cutoutmation or puppetmation. There is cell animation, sand animation, cut out animation and puppet animation. And there is clay animation. It's a perfectly respectable term for a find animation technique.

Claymation is used for Will Vinton's clay animation, things like the California Raisins, horrible tacky dancing turds that make you want to flinch.

PLZ DON'T USE THAT WORD! NO WANT!

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#25 posted by Tenn, August 21, 2008 9:10 PM

Pip, how do you KNOW these things?

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#26 posted by ZippySpincycle, August 21, 2008 9:18 PM

Loved the bit of Twin Peaks music. Now I want to see a clay animation (ahem!) version of the Man From Another Place.

"I have good news! That gum you like is going to come back in style."

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#27 posted by Bruce Arthurs, August 21, 2008 10:25 PM

Ah, this reminds me of the good old days of CELEBRITY DEATHMATCH. (The original version. The revival a few years ago just wasn't the same; it felt like the makers just didn't have their heart... or their spleen, or their pancreas... in it the second time around.) (And will we EVER see a complete-series set of the original CD?)

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#28 posted by EricT, August 22, 2008 7:44 AM

@Pip

What about Super Marionation which if memory serves was the name for the marionets used in the original Thunderbirds.

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#29 posted by Sekino, August 22, 2008 8:22 AM

I just love how she flicks the zombie's arm off her shoulder with contempt...

And yes: The little bow and smile at the end just wrapped it up oh so nicely. The whole thing is just brilliant!

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#30 posted by Anonymous, August 22, 2008 2:50 PM

@Erict

I read that as Super Mario-nation... and was trying to picture itsa mee, Mario in stop-motion. That is, until you brought up the Thunderbirds.