Citations:claymate

English citations of claymate

Verb: "to animate by using stop-motion photography and pieces made out of a moldable substance, typically Plasticine clay"

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• 2000 — Erika Milvy, "Aardman's Claymation Films Taking Shape on Web", Los Angeles Times, 21 April 2000:

  Even then he was prone to claymate. "I used to make models out of Plasticine, and of course it wasn't long before I wanted them to move on film. […]

• 2011 — David Javerbaum (writing as God), The Last Testament: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster (2011), →ISBN, page 177:

  […] but I assure thee, on that first Christmas no one on my team had the slightest inclination to paint a fresco, or sing a carol, or buy an iPhone, or claymate a snowman.

• 2012 — Rafer Guzmán, "'The Pirates! Band of Misfits' is perfect for kids and parents", Newsday, 25 April 2012:

  Based on a novel by screenwriter Gideon Defoe and claymated by the geniuses at Aardman ("Wallace & Gromit"), "Pirates!" is basically a family-friendly version of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," with the knights transformed into seafarers.