Editing Claymation (section)

==Technique==
Each object or character is sculpted from clay or other such similarly pliable material as [[plasticine]], usually around a wire skeleton, called an armature, and then arranged on the set, where it is photographed once before being slightly moved by hand to prepare it for the next shot, and so on until the animator has achieved the desired amount of film. Upon playback, the viewer perceives the series of slightly changing, rapidly succeeding images as motion.

A consistent shooting environment is needed to maintain the illusion of [[Continuity (fiction)|continuity]]: objects must be consistently placed and lit.