The legendary stop-motion house said it has been working for "quite some time" to secure new modeling clay suppliers before current pipelines dry out. From pandemic-induced supply chain backlogs to ...

Hope Mullinax is a freelance writer with over ten years of experience working for various publications. She is the Site Expert for Dork Side of the Force and previously a Star Wars contributor with ...

EVERY TIME a California Raisin blinks an eye, there’s a human being with a hunk of clay and a dental tool — or maybe the top of a pen — to make him move. At least a dozen times in one second of a ...

DENVER — Randy Boyum has been playing with clay for more than 40 years. "I dabbled in clay animation as a 12-year-old in the mid-1970’s, producing a few truly horrible short films," Boyum, now 58, ...

An curved arrow pointing right. "Clayhead" was created by Isak Åkerlund, who works as a freelance designer and animator based in Stockholm, Sweden. The animation shows deconstruction of a clay model ...

Depending on who you ask, talking about car companies making clay models during the designing process will elicit either an "I'm sorry, what?" or "Well of course." Sculpting facsimiles of in-progress ...

From pandemic-induced supply chain backlogs to film stock manufacturing crises, great filmmakers have often been forced to navigate the occasional raw materials shortage. And few filmmaking operations ...