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Claymation is A NIGHTMARE...

Jazza documents his own attempt at claymation and the specific problems that make the technique harder than it looks, including clay picking up fingerprints, losing its shape and being slow to reset between frames. It gives a realistic, warts-and-all picture of claymation's difficulty rather than a clean, tidy tutorial.

Jazza · 16 min · Intermediate · STM · Stop Motion · 2020

What you take away

Expect clay to fight you with fingerprints and shape loss, and budget extra time to fix it between frames.

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