MonsterClay, My soulmate... in clay form.
When I was a child, I was introduced to modelling clays like plasticine (normally the thin strip types) and Play-doh. I fell in love immediately with the material, I didn't have many toys growing up, but with this stuff I could make anything, from Dinosaurs to characters from my favorite cartoon shows. A pack not to dissimilar from this, was a staple gift in my youth. This Play-doh set was one of my first introduction to modeling clays From 1993 I started to get more adventurous with my models, learning to make dinosaur legs more realistic by adding muscle shapes and scales on the feet and adding details like scutes on my crocodiles, but they were still a long way from anything I would call "professional". It wouldn't be until 2002 when I would touch plasticine again. Upon starting my university BA Animation course I was introduced to the product Newplast, the same, if not a very similar product used by Aardman studios. A selection of ...