Create Clay

Artist Raushan has drawn huge attention with a handmade miniature clay project: a tiny house complete with a full miniature kitchen set of utensils, finished with a small tree. The craftsmanship video has earned close to two million likes as viewers praise the patience and detail involved in creating such small-scale household items by hand.

An essay examines how Wallace and Gromit, the celebrated British stop-motion series from Aardman Animations, was largely created by a remarkably small group of people, with much of the work resting on a few key hands. It recounts the studio's painstaking clay animation craft and the near-solo effort behind some of the franchise's most famous shorts, prompting discussion about auteurship in animation.