I bought some Van Aken clay and it seems a bit crumbly. Whats wrong with this stuff?
One of the little secrets of Claymation is that the clay Vinton’s uses is aged at least two years prior to using it in production. We had a hell of a problem about the time of the second Raisin special because a lot of the ‘aged’ clay was long gone and we had to use the crumbly new stuff. They tried a lot of things; adding tiny amounts of mineral oil to the melting clay…. but that had limited success.
