Clay Animation VS Stop Motion !!!!

When I doing research on clay animation, i found out some commentaries said that all stop motion are same as clay motion. This is entirely wrong. Clay motion is actually a term by Will Vinton to describe the process of using modeling clay, plasticine for stop motion, allowing animator to have freedom in squash and stretch technique and changing facial expressions. It is often used for simple children type show.

Even clay motion usually isn't done entirely in clay. There's usually at the very least a wire armature inside the puppets, unless they're extremely suimple and squat, with no arms or very short thick ones. The other 2 common ways to make puppets is foam latex and cushion foam. The foam latex method is very involved and takes a good deal of skill and practice to master, as well as some pretty expensive equipment. You need a good scale, a mixer and an oven, plus the multi-component foam itself is fairly expensive. And ofcourse these methods can be mixed up in various ways, and you can make heads from a hard material like Sculpey or wood and hands can be wire dipped in regular latex.

Example:

• Nightmare Before Christmas - NOT clay
• KingKong by Ray Harryhausen and Jim Danforth - NOT clay
• Chicken Run - hybrid puppet with a clay head and arms while body made by silicone