Clay Stop-Motion

Animate [TEXT] as clay stop-motion at 12 frames per second, every frame held. Each letter is chunky, rounded and puffy, sculpted from matte modeling clay in its own saturated color (tomato, sunflower, grass, sky blue, grape, tangerine, teal, pink). Start with clay balls dropping onto a pastel peach paper sweep, bouncing with squash; then each ball is pushed, frame by frame, into its letter. Hold while letters hop one after another with anticipation, stretch and squash. Every frame the surface changes slightly (tiny dents, fingerprint whorls, a soft broad highlight), so it boils like hand-animated clay, and letters jitter by a pixel or two. Finish by squishing the letters back into balls and flattening them, then loop.