Harvie Krumpet by Adam Elliot

Directed by Adam Elliot 'Harvie Krumpet' is a short claymation film, about a strange man with tourettes. As he grew up he got bullied at school for his tourettes which always gave him the urge to touch people on the nose. His mum decided to home school him and teach him 'Fakts', as this was all she knew. Tied around his neck he kept a book of 'Fakts' which he took with him wherever he went.

All the sets and characters you can tell are made out of clay,plasticine and wood.
With the characters these were almost human looking but not quite. They don't appear to have eye sockets as their eyes are so big. The main thing about them is that they have exaggerated features making them unique.

The style of Adam Elliot is unique by providing drama and humour together which is unusual in an animation of this sort. An example of this would be when Harvie returns home to find his house burnt down and then he see's his parents both frozen to death on a tandem NAKED!! Normally if someone died you'd feel upset but this scenario make
it so you could apply humour.

I think the effect that this animation is trying to achieve is humour in realistic and unreal scenarios. Adam Elliot has a mind full of weird and wonderful things, which has been portrayed as he won best animation (short) oscar in 2003 !

I do like this animation, I wouldn't say it's one of my favourites as its not my type of thing, however I do admire Adam Elliot's take on trying to use drama and humour together.

An animation that uses claymation similar to 'Harvie Krumpet' would be 'Wallace & Gromit' , who I consider some of the most famous claymation icons. There is even a film based on the animation characters.
Here is just a little bit to show you who they are.