Firebox.com has teamed up with Aardman Animations – the creators of Morph – to launch an animation competition entitled ‘Morphmation’. Inspired by the hugely popular Make your Own Morph product that the quirky gift e-tailer sells, Firebox will be encouraging Morph lovers to send in their 2 minute stop-motion animations starring the lovable clay figure.



The film festival with a difference will run for six weeks – from mid March until the end of April. Budding animators can upload their entries onto Firebox.com’s dedicated webpage: http://www.firebox.com/morphmation. The e-tailer will then select the five funniest and wackiest Morph adventures and display them on Aardman’s Youtube channel, whereupon fans can rate and comment upon the entries. When choosing the final winner, Aardman will take these comments into account.

The lucky Morphmation winner will receive a one-off signed original sketch – taken from a scene within their film – drawn by Peter Lord, Creative Director of Aardman and co-creator of Morph. Runners up will receive a copy of 'Stop Motion Pro' software and an 'Animation Station' product.

Peter Lord – Creative Director of Aardman and co-creator of Morph, comments: “We started animating with modelling clay because it was cheap and easily available, but we discovered, as we went along, that it's also amazing fun. Modelling clay is really perfect for animation and I'm really excited to see what you can do with it. Amaze me!”

To take part visit http://www.firebox.com/morphmation

cool iam making mine
mrjk
katie thanks 4 adding me as a buddy on ci website
like your creation

is their an age limit

nope not anymore... if you check the terms and condtions you will find that they have been changed to- if you are under 18 you have to ask the parent or guardians permission

hmm..i need a morph making kit and fast
i think i have a really funny animation so I'll start storyboarding now
i have loads of ideas

Im doing it!!

Good luck everyone, can't wait to see what you come up with!

i have just joined so i don't haven any friends yet. please add ?
& can you put pictures on of creation that have been drawn ?
& i am drawing up ideas now!

x x x x x

welcome to the site, just call me ian, they don't have a friends feature where you can actually add people, but we are all freinds here. yup! a lot of people put drawing on, the creations contest, and theres a thread called "your drawing"

do you do any animation?

i'm going to have a good try. i have a good idea,a crazy idea not done in morph before

like the idea of cheeeeeeese

dow please don't give out personal information

I going to make one!

Good luck for everyone who enters!

i may not enter!! im ramping up modelmaking and set making for my film these 2 weeks i got off.

I was looking forward to your entry Jordan!

im still pondering, i already started soooo.....

how long do you have?

1 sec worth
lol...

Well I've managed to make a Morph. Now I just need to try and make another identical one. Regrettably, both are going to end up destroyed but that's the cost of art I guess! Once again I have the utmost admiration for the Aardman animators; how they ever manage to work all the time with plasticine I'll never know.

Jordan, do you go at 24fps?

yup

only 3000 more to go!

Good one, P&B!

lol

im having trouble getting their voices right. maybe ill have to get audacity and make the pitch higher? how do you all do it?

do what?

buh buh buh bet buh buh

thank you ian

for Morph and Chaz's voices. i was wondering if they highered the pitch or just recorded them saying things?

yeah i think they are higher pitched

i think i got all my voices recorded

LOL!

excellent work chees3gromit.

thank you

i have about 7 seconds done of my film so far.

but no sneak peeks, sorry

7 seconds! That's an epic by my standards. Tee hee.

thanks Boffin

i will add the sounds after im done filming because im not sure how to add multiple sounds in MonkeyJam.

but ive already mapped out the frames the mouth should be open or closed and whatnot.

I REALLY want to win this thing

Hi to all IV finished my morph animation and posted it
Its 1.40 minutes and I hope I get in to the top 3
And its got Viv & Mandy in it

mind posting a link?

ill go find it now but for the other people who are, lazy

Cool

ill be posting a like once it is up and runing it ant on there yet

oh, that makes sense, they probably have to make sure they aren't offensive or anything

good luck too every one who enters cause i cant

them morphs are so cute

i have done a storyboard, my morph kit is coming on monday and then hopefully i can get it done. i hope its not too long

i hope you dont feel too rushed lozi, because i feel rushed already and i started last week

looking forward to all the animations from people on this site

my morph kit came today! so i can start animating! after i built my morph, of course

yaaay!

i saw yours chees3gromit! very good!

thank you ian

i like yours Daniel