claymation
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Aardman Animations is Running Out of Its Iconic Clay
Aardman Animations has been defined by its clay animation techniques. Known as Newplast plasticine, it’s been used since the studio’s inception back in 1972, and have been used in all their productions, from the Wallace & Gromit shorts to more recent fare like Star Wars Visions and Shaun the Sheep. You know you’re watching an…
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This Short Stop-Motion Clay Animation Is Fantastically Fluid
Video: I’ve always thought that one of the appeals of stop-motion claymation was the imperfections in the animation, how things never quite moved as fluidly as real life. After watching this short from Guldies, I now realise that it’s because no one is a master of stop-motion claymation like he is. The animation is really…
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Watching A Claymation Head Get Deconstructed Is Oddly Fascinating
Video: It is somehow humanising and terrifying to watch this claymation head get deconstructed in stop-motion. I think I shrieked and thought the face was coming alive multiple times and then shrieked again but no matter how gross it got, I could never look away.