Claymation

Today we learned about claymation. Not because we really wanted to. We HAD to. Turns out Brady was watching Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and happened to see the whole "Large Marge" scene. That apparently freaked him out to no end. He got himself so worked up about it last night that he couldn't sleep. It took both of us pulling out all the Jedi mind tricks we could think of. Nothing worked. One of the only things that calmed him down was promising to show him how clay animation works. So, this morning we busted out the play-doh, camera, and computer and got to work. I wasn't sure how it would turn out, but it was actually way easy to do and now we are all hooked on it. Brady wants me to animate all his creations now. If you are bored and have access to a digital camera, play-doh, and a computer with video editing software...I highly recommend taking 20 minutes out of your day to do it.