Clay painting

The clay-painting process has also been used as a background, photographically combined with other forms of animation, and even live action.

A variation of this technique was developed by another Vinton animator, Craig Bartlett, for his series of "Arnold" short films, also made during the late-80s/early-90s, in which he not only used clay painting, but sometimes built up clay images that rose off the plane of the flat support platform, toward the camera lens, to give a more 3-D stop-motion look to his films.

An example is Priestly-Gratz's Candy Jam film, made in the mid-90s, which can also be defined as object animation.

Buzzco Associates produced a series of bumpers for Nickelodeon in 1998 using clay painting.

[1] In the Soviet Union, the technique was made famous by Alexander Tatarsky with films such as Plasticine Crow (1981 [1]) and Last Year's Snow Was Falling (1983 [2]).