Clay-+Animation

=__Famous Clay-Animation Movies__=

=There are many well nown clay-animation movies, tv series, short films. These catagories conisist of Gumby a television show and the California Raisin Advisory Board TV commercial. As well as some shrt-fils such as Closed Mondays (1974) that was used in the Academy Awards, The Sand Castle (1977), Creature Comforts (1989) and of course, the Wallace and Gromit short-films. =



=__Clay-Animation Computer Games__=

=There have been many computer games as well as some commmercials using clay-animation such as; T //he Neverhod //, Clay Fighter, Platypus, Clay Moon (iPhone app), and Primal Rage. Even some commmercials used clay-animation such as the Chevron Cars ads which was produced by Aardman Studios. =



=__Who Thought of Clay-Animation?__=

=In 1908 over in the United States, clay-animations were being produced. Edison Manufacturing made a movie called //The Sculptor's Welsh Rarebit Dream.// Then in 1916, clay-animations were a huge rave. So these two people, one named Helena Smith Dayton (an artist from the east coast) and Willie Hopkins (an animator from the west coast) made many clay-animations for many subjects. =



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