Max Martin - Stop Motion Animator - Claynation

Max Martin – Stop Motion Showreel 2013

thatmax — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:35:57 +0000

This is a compilation of some of my favourite animated segments I have created over the past few years. Everything in this showreel has either been animated solely by me, or with me acting as the lead stop motion animator.

Music: Rawnald Ericson the Second – Starfucker

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Life’s short, animate.

thatmax — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:06:37 +0000

Life is short, not quite as short as this animation, but short, so get animating!

I might end up using this (or an edited down version) as a Claynation.co.uk ident to go before or after my films from now on.

Stop motion McCoy’s crisps ad

thatmax — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:25:20 +0000

This is a commissioned stop motion animation that I created for McCoy’s crisps. The video was made as a thank you to the 100’000 subscribers on their Facebook page as well as a general advert. To see more of my work visit my website: www.claynation.co.uk McCoy’s Facebook page www.facebook.com

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Greg Wallace + John Torode in Claymation on ‘The One Show’

thatmax — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:01:29 +0000

This is my latest and shortest commission that I have recently been undertaking in which I was asked to create plasticine models of the hosts from Masterchef Greg Wallace and John Torode for BBC’s ‘The One Show’. It aired at primetime on BBC One – 12/3/13

This was a very last minute project so I had just 2 evenings to complete the models as well as the animation, so it is far from my best work.

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Mushroom Tea -by- Altai Lelio (Clay Animation)

thatmax — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:27:39 +0000

A trippy stop motion music video for Altai Lelio’s ‘Mushroom Tea’, featuring nothing but bright colours, flowing movement and surreal patterns.
Buy the song on facebook.com, become a fan of Altai on facebook.com
With this animation I wanted to go back to my roots a bit and just play around with fun movements and morphs with plasticine shapes and figures. While playing around with lighting I discovered that if you place objects on a light box and rig another set of lights to shine on them from above then you get a really nice, crisp and colourful result. So I used a vertical tripod with a Cannon 450D to look down onto the light box. Then I just played around with the plasticine and animated whatever movements came into my head. This was also my first time using Dragon Stop Motion which is now my software of choice for any stop motion animation. Contact: Thatmax@mac.com

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Red Bull Gives You Springs

thatmax — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:28:08 +0000

This is my entry to Red Bull’s Canimation competition. I used replacement animation techniques to have the cans crushing and a rigging system to hold them in the air.

I spent about 3 days animating this and a further 2 days on the post production editing out the rigs (A special thanks to my housemate and fellow animator Rob Thomson who put in a lot of hours on the rig removal)

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Clay Animation Nyan Cat

thatmax — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:48:16 +0000

Just a little Animation that took about a day to complete. I hope it’s as irritating to watch as it was to make. I do have a good few proper projects in production, in the meantime…. NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN

The Busker

thatmax — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:04:35 +0000

On the side of the street, a one man band attempts to busk. In his struggle he discovers that the source of the music comes from contorting his body and the music begins.
We created this animation in a team of 3 for our production studies module within the 2nd year of the BA Animation course at Bristol School of Animation (UWE). The production took about 10 weeks, allowing 2 weeks off for christmas. We gave ourselves 3 weeks for the animation and editing stage of things and spent the rest of the time developing the storyboards, puppet design, set/prop design, foley, etc.

The Team:

MAX MARTIN
-Lead animator
-Director
-Set Design
-Puppet Maker
-Sound Design
Website: www.claynation.co.uk
Contact: thatmax@mac.com

BECKY BERRY
-Art Director
-Animator
-Set design
-Lead Costume Design
Website: beckyberry.weebly.com
Contact: beckyjberry@hotmail.com

HYWEL P ROBERTS
-Producer
-Writer
-Animator
-Storyboard Artist
-Lead Puppet Maker
Website: hywelproberts.blogspot.com
Contact: hywelpr@ffmail.net

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Max Martin – Animation Showreel (2011)

thatmax — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 04:42:01 +0000

This showreel shows some of my favourite stop motion pieces from the past few years. Some fairly old, but also some very new. It’s quite a fun little compilation and it conveys my style quite successfully with the quirky soundtrack accompanying the clips.

Music – Funny Old Man -by- The Daniel Pemberton TV Orchestra.

If you enjoy my work or if you have a question, just leave a comment and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

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WASSUP! Clay Animation

thatmax — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:12:03 +0000

A quick lip sync claymation of a scene out of the classic “Wassup” Budweiser advert from 2000. Entirely shot at 25fps it took me about 2 hours to complete and while its kinda rough in places and the characters are simple I enjoyed animating it. Plus it was pretty fun using my light box as the base, it gave an eery glow and meant I didn’t have to use my huge photography lighting kit.