Cletus Clay blog live on TunaSnax

To those who were wondering, I am still alive - just! I’m hard at work hammering out our indie title, which you can now find blogged on TunaSnax.

I’m very pleased to say that we’re working with Anthony Flack to create his long awaited follow-up to Platypus (download it here), Cletus Clay. To say the least, it’s bloody hard work for all of us but also highly satisfying.

For those who don’t know, we make everything in clay then animate it using traditional stop-frame techniques - just like Wallace and Grommit (Aardman Animations). What you see on the screen, give or take some clean-up and effects work, actually exists on a desk somewhere and it’s the photo which is on-screen.

I hear some people have just seen the blog this weekend and think we’re not really doing this, but honestly - we really are, and it’s more difficult than you can imagine. We’ll talk more about the process over the next few months and I’ll doubtless also mention it here.

Right, back to the hard grind!