The latest stop-motion animated movie made by Aardman Animations is now playing in cinemas in the UK, and opens in theaters in the US in just a few weeks (starting February 16th). Early Man is their ...

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 ...

The studio behind Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run says it's planning a "smooth transition" to a new modelling clay after concerns its sole supplier had closed. Reading time 2 minutes Aftera weekend ...

Clay animation has brought raisins to life, helped a character named Gumby hug a horse named Pokey and, with this weekend’s opening of the film “Chicken Run,” allowed a dozen plump chickens to tackle ...

Aardman Animation, known for characters like Wallace and Gromit, has reassured fans that 'no need to worry' about them running out of clay. (DreamWorks Animation) Aardman Animation has shared a ...

Will Vinton, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker who coined the term Claymation to describe the three-dimensional animated clay figures he used in his work, including the wildly popular California ...

Wallace & Gromit creator Aardman has denied that it has had a close shave with its clay stock. On Monday afternoon, the iconic British animation studio issued a statement denying that it is running ...

The future of the studio behind Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Chicken Run among many other properties could be in doubt due to a shortage of key filming material. Aardman Animations made ...

In the era of 3-D computer modeling and Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets, you’d think the car industry might give up on clay modeling. But in fact, the age-old art of layering thousands of pounds ...