Clay is the perfect material really. >> If you think about Grommet, you know, all the emotion in in that face comes from a movement of the brow. >> Wallace's kind of classic.>> Clay underpins really who we are and what we're about. Arman started with Chicken Run. We're about to release our 11th movie.>> You need this very specific particular type of clay to be able to do what we do. Well, for many years, Oddman has used a type of clay manufactured by a company called Newlast. >> I think we used it over 25 y ...

The Wall Street Journal went inside the studio behind ‘Chicken Run’ to learn how its beloved clay almost disappeared for good. https://t.co/OqMFEkIlJx ...

For decades, the animators behind “Chicken Run” and “Wallace & Gromit” have used a very specific type of clay. It’s pliable enough to reshape for months, but firm enough not to melt or crack under studio lights. Then one day, Aardman Animations got word that its clay manufacturers were retiring. News that the studio's clay supply was in jeopardy spread quickly from newspapers to Reddit fan forums. The Journal’s video goes inside the legendary film studio to show how it raced to save its beloved clay. Chapte ...