Wallace & Gromit's Clay Disaster
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- Опубликовано: 20 ноя 2023
- Aardman Animations -- the outfit behind decades of Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run claymation features -- has a clay supply problem. The only company that makes Lewis Newplast, the clay they've been using for years, has shut down. They bought all the remaining stock, but Aardman only has enough clay left for next year's Wallace & Gromit film. Then what?
Aardman will find a new supplier, an acceptable substitute, or... well, something. It's an outstanding example of how economics works.
I really hope they don't switch to CGI. No animation could ever truly capture real claymation.
Flushed Away was the one and only exception.
Tbh animation tech is getting amazing upgrades and the industry is more creative then ever, it's just the bigger companies haven't gotten the memo.
They just might have to, but on the plus side.
You can achieve something close with Cgi to the original clay style.
I've seen it done before.
@@JeremyBelpoisX Also Arthur Christmas.
the ONLY time it got close was with the tell-tale games wallace and gromit
Wallace and Gromet saved Wensleydale cheese from ceasing production. I myself suddenly want to try some.
They've suggested starting to manufacture the clay themselves, which I see as most likely. As others have suggested, if they start supporting their industry as its largest participant, they could initiate a revival of the art.
For those panicking, don’t. They started practicing with a different kind of clay. As they say in Britain “no need to get your knickers in a twist”.
Aardman should start their own production line, then do like Glitch productions and supports other creators, but instead of indie animation, it supports claymation. Then they benefit from economies of scale, while bringing about a renaissance of claymation.
I love that idea!
Starting their own production line to be a possible monopoly on this product and being immediately hit with an antitrust law? hell naw. The trickle-down economic people won't let the free market be free.
Most likely they'll switch to CGI animation and make it look like clay like The Lego Movie.
"Because that's how economics works."
@@quintessenceSLi mean he literally said in the video "or maybe they'll use a different material"
Flushed away is a better example
@@quintessenceSL
Let's think before we comment next time ok?
As long as the film makes money they’ll find a substitute, but I can’t personally see them going for CGI for Wallace and Gromit
They said they found a replacement clay and that theyll be fine for future rpojects
I sincerely hope that stop motion never gets replaced. People never realize how much work gets put into that type of animation.
They could always use film profits to start up their own production line, this or CGI.
What happens to the clay used after filmming? Is it possible to recycle it? I understand the colours used would need to be removed somehow to re-colour the clay but would this be impossible or cost-prohibitive?
The clay ages over time so recycling it between production may not be possible given that claymation is time consuming to produce.
@@clearviewmoai oh thanks, that makes sense!
Necessity is the mother of invention, or so it's said.
The morale of this video: someone please fill this economic niche of a very specific clay for a beloved stop motion claymation toon.
Y'all, we now got Quantum Super Materials, and you gonna tell me we running out of Fancy Play-Doh?
These old cartoons are really fun but still I always find the mouths creepy haha
No, it won't. Because Newclay products has PATENTS on it. Go to the website, they're selling their IPs.
That's why they're isn't currently another company they can switch despite there clearly being demand which is what WOULD happen in an ACTUAL competitive market
Hope they find someone able to produce this clay or a similar substitute product.
Best case scenario some company goes to Company that used to make it before they shut down and ask to buy the recipe and Start producing it.
Actually they make them of silicon nowdays. They havent used clay sense the 90s
Aardman hasn’t been using Lewis Newplast since the early 2000s.
Most of their films are now made with a silicone rubber type material.
You're far more hopeful about this than I am.
It's not the end of the world, but it's yet another cut in our dying culture's hide.
Culture doesn’t “die.” A _particular_ culture will of course die, all things die, but as long as there are sentient beings there will be culture. Culture changes, and you personally might not like the change, and indeed one could even say that a newer culture is “better” or “worse” than the old one ( *if* you first define the metrics for evaluating) but culture will always be with us.
I hate most animation because they make things move to fast. Thats what made stufio Ghibli and old disney so great to me. Long camera shots, no insane jump cuts every 2 seconds
You forgot about nightmare before Christmas
I have some of this clay
I mean, I’m sure they’ll find a replacement or a solution, but if not, it’s not exactly the end of the world.
Nah, they will hire another company to get more clay
I've already seen indie animators using 3d Software like Blender to capture the claymation style.
Send it to a lab to have its propertys tested then have it made elsewhere
The ONLY manufacturer? Why werent their other companies that manufactured the clay or similar clay?
Demand creates supply. I guess it wasnt that popular 🤷♂️
Did Robot Chicken ever use the same material for production as these movies?
I remember that sketch using action figures and figurines, for the most part.
It was action figures rewatching the clips makes that fact pretty apparent.
We spread a little misinformation online
Or they go with CGI
Or this was never an issue, just advertising click-bait for you. Since they started, LED lighting tech advances mean they could have changed material years ago; Saving ever increasing amount of money Vs hassle/cost to switch. Intersection of Pro Vs Con, ...because this is how economics works.
CGI is unfortunately be the response but it will probably never quite look right. Practical effects are always superiors for things like this (especially considering all the crappy modern CGI we've seen in recent years).
Make CGI Resemble the original clay motion style won't be easy, but it is possible.
I've seen it done for a video game before And granted it was a point n click, but still.
If they use cgi, i'm going to lose all the respect that i have for aardman studios
Same
And what would you rather they do instead, just stop producing all together?
@@charlesthomas5956
You too.
@thereseemstobeenanerror1219 I mean, they could switch to a diffrent material you know
This video makes a meta-commentary on markets in addition to the stated point: in the marketplace of ideas that is RUclips video titles, to gain market share (clicks), someone used a hyperbolic clickbait title that presumably would have been eschewed in market that rewarded honesty over sensationalis. To anyone who would argue that “disaster” is a perfectly reasonable word to use to describe the situation with the availability of clay, you are making my point for me, because you have become so desensitized to the actual meaning of words due to the incessant use of sensationalizing language to get your attention, because, as they say, “if it bleeds, it leads” and thus everything is portrayed as a bloody mess, that you find nothing wrong with using the same word to describe massive loss of human life, to describe a minor business decision.
Now I know you've gotten your panties in a knot.
Because people aren't using words the way you want them to.
But this is a disaster though, for the studio I mean.
This is their literal, bread-and-butter that sounds like something that's pretty disastrous to me.
@@thereseemstobeenanerror1219 😂 🤣😂 my point obviously flew right over your head! If anyone has their panties in a knot it’s you.
Let me try explaining a different way: the business that I’ve been building for the past decade (electric race cars) was abruptly ended a few months ago by a single change in insurance company rules (race tracks in the northeast no longer can get insurance if they allow EVs to race) so we have no place to race, thus our inventory of 5 prototype electric races cars now have little value, we can no longer service our customers, the 20+ part time crew and full time employees need to find other work, and while all that sucks for us, and feels a little arbitrary and unfair, I don’t think anyone would call that change in insurance rules a “disaster”, we are winding down that side of the business and pivoting to other work.
The movie company bought the existing clay so they are good in the short term and they will figure out viable alternatives, or else pivot to something else.
This is what happens when monopolies happen.