# My first claymation project (thread starts with a naming suggestions request) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335 "2008-02-20T00:14:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/21 "2008-02-20T18:24:59Z")
[QUOTE=Kat] Grek. He definitely looks like a Grek. [/QUOTE] It’s all Grek to me? I vote for Blurk. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/22 "2008-02-20T18:35:28Z")
[QUOTE=Merkwurdigliebe] Two ideas. Nurg or Glurn [/QUOTE] Gurg? Glurg? Nurn? Nurl? ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/23 "2008-02-20T19:29:18Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] I’m currently working on a short claymation project - which I hope will be the first of a series. (There’s a possibility of this making me a small amount of money - so I have sought and obtained permission from Dex to discuss/show it here). [/QUOTE] If you’re making this for commercial release, don’t call it “Claymation”. That’s a registered trademark owned by Will Vinton Productions. The generic term is “clay animation”. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/24 "2008-02-20T20:35:47Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] These are all great suggestions, thanks, and they’re just the kind of thing I was reaching for, but not grasping. In fact, I’m tempted to invent some new characters just to use more than one of the names here. [/QUOTE] Well don’t keep us in suspense, what name did you choose? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/25 "2008-02-20T21:18:54Z")
**Ranchoth** ’s offer was impossible to refuse. Blup it is. I would like to use some of the others for subsequent episodes - in fact, the format pretty much makes new character names essential. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/26 "2008-02-20T22:49:42Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] If you’re making this for commercial release, don’t call it “Claymation”. That’s a registered trademark owned by Will Vinton Productions. The generic term is “clay animation”. [/QUOTE] Thanks for this - I think I had already been told that once before, but had forgotten it. That will be why so many people call their efforts ‘klaymation’ ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/27 "2008-02-22T00:06:38Z")
Well… (wow - this is going to be an anticlimax for some, possibly all parties) Here it is: [http://www.atomicshrimp.com/blup/](http://www.atomicshrimp.com/blup/) It’s flawed in many ways, but that’s just room for future improvement, eh? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/28 "2008-02-22T00:25:12Z")
Very cute! (I can’t believe you succumbed to **Ranchoth** ’s threats, though.) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/29 "2008-02-22T00:26:50Z")
The next one might very well be called Blurk. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/30 "2008-02-22T00:49:55Z")
If you get something rounder, call it Ugg. In memory. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/31 "2008-02-22T01:25:34Z")
Hehehehe. That was funny! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/32 "2008-02-22T02:11:18Z")
That was very funny. I loved the music. How did you make the fire? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/33 "2008-02-22T02:21:51Z")
The candle flame is real - the flame on the match was added by hand to each frame in a photo editing program - easier than it sounds - I used Ulead PhotoImpact, which has presets for effects like lens flare and fireworks - so I just created one for flame and repeated it, with a few changes on each frame. The animation is only about 10 frames per second, so it’s not too onerous a task. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/34 "2008-02-22T02:31:32Z")
I don’t care what anyone says, your “after the kiwi fruit” video effin’ tore me up. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/35 "2008-02-22T08:09:09Z")
Thanks everyone! ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/36 "2008-02-22T08:38:54Z")
Just a suggestion, but I think you might do better with a different color of clay. 😉 _It’s walking! …poo!_ ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/37 "2008-02-22T09:01:14Z")
Hehe, yes. The original character concept was my daughter’s - she wanted to call it ‘mud man’, but I believe this could be mistaken as a racist epithet. So we kept the mud and changed the name. Next one will be a different colour, and will come to harm in a different way. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/38 "2008-02-22T14:49:44Z")
Cute. It’s amazing what some people can do when they put their minds to it. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/39 "2008-02-28T00:12:14Z")
I know I said the next one might be called Blurk, but that was too similar to Blup (I’ll use it in future, though). So the next one is called [Grek](http://www.atomicshrimp.com/grek/) (Thanks **Kat** ) ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335/40 "2008-02-28T04:42:33Z")
Awesome! I named a little clay guy! Am I famous now? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-claymation-project-thread-starts-with-a-naming-suggestions-request/438335.md?page=1)