When I was a kid, I watched an amazing special on PBS about this team in England who worked for years and years to put out a few short videos. The team was led by Nick Park and the videos were the Wallace and Gromit series.

I remember being completely amazed at the amount of work that it took to create only a few seconds worth of footage. Each intricate detail had to be hand sculpted between each frame. I remember the show saying it took their team 4 years to create their first short video.

So last year our family played around with stop motion video. We got the camera set up and everyone got their own blob of Playdough to work with. It was a blast, and the end result was so much fun to watch that I’ve been wanting to do it again.

Well, this time I wanted to make something a little more polished than last year’s video. Turns out, it’s really hard to create a stop motion video that looks like it was created by anyone other than an 8 year old. However, I did want to polish it at least a little bit, so I added a simple audio track to it. I had to use software that was different than my normal video editing software (to get this video to last for 20 seconds, I had to set it to a measly 9 frames/second and my current software will only go down to 24 frames) which is why you get the watermark from WeVideo. I don’t like watermarks, but I do like using software for free, and they have a pretty good product.