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 malle
Characters in the animated series From Ilich to Kuzmich
A claymation scene from a Finnish TV advertisement
stills from Battle of the Suds and other Helena Smith-Dayton films (1917)
Plasticine is a putty-like modelling material made from calcium salts, petroleum jelly and aliphatic acids. Though originally a brand name for the British product, it was later used generically in Eng
East German Plastilina
A Plasticine model of a rat, by Polish animator Monika Kuczyniecka
A life-size vegetable plot in James May's Paradise in Plasticine