The Conan O'Brien Clay Thing...

[INRM]

Remember seeing that bit with Conan O'Brien episode done in clay?

How long did that take to set up!??

I remember hearing it took years or months to set up something like that. How did they do it so quickly?

Was the material out of date also?

-INRM

 

[JeffR]

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/living/5_15_03conan.html

 

[INRM]

How long did that take to set up?

-INRM

 

[Fade]

The episode, in production for months

The models looked quite mashed together. It really isn't that difficult to do, especially for shows in which there is very little movement. Most of Conan O'Brien show is him at desk talking to celebrity of some sort. Two claymation puppets sitting and moving their arms/lips isn't too hard

 

[Andonyx]

The models looked quite mashed together. It really isn't that difficult to do, especially for shows in which there is very little movement. Most of Conan O'Brien show is him at desk talking to celebrity of some sort. Two claymation puppets sitting and moving their arms/lips isn't too hard

When someone drops newsbytes to press, and they say, "In production for months..." They are trying to add signifcance to the event. In production for months could easily be applied to an idea they had three months ago, but wasn't approved or even picked up until four weeks ago.

For something like this you always have to synch to your soundtrack. I don't work in stop motion animation so I would be hard pressed to estimate this. But I would say from final audio track to final tape should be about four weeks. I'm guessing they didn't shoot the original show in with this in mind, but picked it after they listened to some good shows with no picture to get an idea of how funny just the soundtrack was.

That's if they were working on it exclusively as a non-stop project. If they just put in eight hour days and let the animation studio determine the schedule, it could evry well have been months.