Claymation

Characters in the animated series From Ilich to Kuzmich
A claymation scene from a Finnish TV advertisement[1]

Claymation, sometimes called clay animation or plasticine animation, is one of many forms of stop-motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable"—made of a malleable substance, usually plasticine clay.

Traditional animation, from cel animation to stop motion, is produced by recording each frame, or still picture, on film or digital media and then playing the recorded frames back in rapid succession before the viewer. These and other moving images, from zoetrope to films and video games, create the illusion of motion by playing back at over ten to twelve frames per second.

  1. ^ "Clay animation". www.sparetimelabs.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-04-05.