Editing Claymation (section)

{{Short description|Stop-motion animation made using malleable clay models}}
{{For|the trademarked term|Will Vinton}}
[[File:Animacion-con-plastilina-y-clay-animation-pelicula-Kuzmich-153.jpg|thumb|Characters in the animated series ''From Ilich to Kuzmich'']]

[[File:Claychick.jpg|thumb|A claymation scene from a Finnish TV advertisement<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sparetimelabs.com/animato/animato/chicken/chick.html|title=Clay animation|website=www.sparetimelabs.com|access-date=2015-04-05|archive-date=2015-09-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924104223/http://www.sparetimelabs.com/animato/animato/chicken/chick.html|url-status=live}}</ref>]]

'''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"&mdash;made of a malleable substance, usually [[plasticine]] [[clay]].

[[Traditional animation]], from [[cel animation]] to stop motion, is produced by recording each frame, or still picture, on film or [[digital media]] and then playing the recorded frames back in rapid succession before the viewer.  These and other moving images, from [[zoetrope]] to [[film]]s and [[video game]]s, create the illusion of motion by playing back at over ten to twelve [[frame rate|frames per second]].