However, since the silicone isn't expressive like clay, they can't use full silicone puppets for the stop motion. "With the clay, you can sculpt it to anything you want basically, so a lot of the ...

Stop-motion films are by their nature some of the most delicate ... "With all the handling that the animators do, the puppets get so trashed," says Crossingham. "If aspects of [the puppets] are ...