Stop! Motion Time - Week 9

I've always been a fan of stop motion animation.
Correction: clay animation.

Gumby is king of the genre.
Correction: Art Clokey.

The creator of Gumby did his first animation, titled "Gumbasia," in 1953:

The art-style video is free form clay animation; it's a visual piece, not a story piece. Gumby, nor any character at all, makes no appearance. But it was so well done and innovative that it led to the production of the first Gumby short, Gumby on the Moon:

Clokey's series was picked up and ran for 233 episodes spanning 34 years and a movie in 1995.

Clay animation is something I did as a child. Typically violent shorts, about five to 15 seconds of little characters murdering each other in various ways over and over. No dialogue or any audio at all. I used a low quality web camera and shot at 15 frames per second. A decent amount, but the videos often looked very sped up. I'd also shoot little shorts for assignments in high school. These typically yielded near-perfect marks despite poor production quality. It doesn't take much to impress a high school teacher. These productions would have monologue/dialogue and audio and would span for several minutes, depending on what was required to be said.

I'd like to get into it. But it's a tedious and arduous task, animating. Something for which I do not have the time or funds to produce what I would deem acceptable today. Perhaps if I find myself so inspired, I will make time.