I did this yesterday and it was a mess. The assignment was to make our character wait and also do a emotion change. I remember watching Chris struggle with melting clay and a hard armature underneath in high school, and now I got to experience it first hand. The clay migrates around the armature alot and your fingernail is always cutting grooves in the surface. It was actually really fun though.
I’m used to spending weeks on a computer to finally get something to show, but with stop-motion it’s super quick. It’s really gratifying. And if you screw up people are really forgiving cause they understand sorta what you’re doing is ridiculous, and it ends up adding charm anyway. There’s also tons of really shitty stuff out there that people get paid for, for the same reasons.
