Final Stop Motion: Blu.tack

I created an approximately 2min stop-motion/claymation using only blu-tack, mirroring the life of a human. This stop-motion basically begins at the man’s birth (being created) and ends with his death, basic life story. To make this more interesting I added in a second character for the man to ‘fall in love’ with to make it more like most people around us. Throughout this story you see how the person was made and all the little things that made him, you see him grow up as he progresses through his life (scene on the skateboard), he hits barriers in his life but finds a way around it, he meets another person like him and spends the rest of his life with her and you see him fall from his risks and plunge to his death...or is it? I feel that this successfully represents time in claymation form. In saying this I think that if I were to do this project again, I would re-think the ending of the animation as you see it ends pretty quickly. Now thinking back on it, the final ‘splat‘ of the person could have turned back into the original little balls of blu-tack and returned back to their place, the ending was a bit off but overall I feel I did a great job.  

Song: Strawberry Swing - Coldplay