A Study of Clay Material Properties in Stop-Motion Animation

Abstract

Stop-motion animation is an ancient form of animation. After nearly a century of development, the material application of stop-motion animation becomes diversified. Currently, however, the well-known stop-motion animations are produced by clay materials. Clay materials play an important role in the application of stop-motion animation. Clay materials, because of its expressive ability demonstrated by its strong plasticity, enables the roles it has shaped lively and characteristic and the stop-motion animation to be full of affinity and vitality. This paper starts from the properties and material expressive ability of clay materials, combined with the short clay animation film named Daffodil to have a study and analysis of the vitality demonstrated by clay materials.