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- noun a
stop-motion animation where each animated piece is made from a deformable substance, typicallyPlasticine clay .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The work that goes into claymation is mind-boggling and worth spending the money for that alone.
A Movie Worth Watching Candace 2005
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Clay figures are often used in stop motion animations, known as claymation, for their ease of repositioning.
FUN VIDEOS: "Maksimok Takes On The Argonauts" (19 October 2007) MaksimSmelchak 2007
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Hate when people uneducated in the ways of animation that is use "claymation" as a description for all stop-motion.
First Photos: WWII Claymation Film 'Jackboots on Whitehall' « FirstShowing.net 2010
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This is not "claymation"… There is no clay used on screen in this production… This is called "Stop motion animation".
First Photos: WWII Claymation Film 'Jackboots on Whitehall' « FirstShowing.net 2010
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Since clay melts in the lights, most "claymation" characters are actually bendable rubber puppets.
Periscope 2007
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I guess they didn’t want to run through the hassle of untying him in claymation.
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The second is "Party Mix," aimed at children ages 6-12 and featuring award-winning shorts such as claymation favorite Nick Park's "Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf & Death."
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The film, like Elliot's earlier short films, uses a painstaking form of stop-motion animation, popularly known as 'claymation'.
unknown title 2009
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Two emergent artists whose idiosyncracy, skill and vision stand out, sell for prices that are reasonable in comparison to others -- a sumptuous Natalie Djurberg's Venice Biennale "claymation" films is "still cheap" at £14,000, for one of an edition of four.
New Statesman 2009
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Although it hails from the same Aardman studios that gave the world Wallace and Gromit, this is only a computerised imitation of their "claymation" technique.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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