Lee Hardcastle is a freelance animator who works in stop motion with modelling clay. His use of clay brings an interesting feel to his animations- or claymations, as he doesn't smooth the characters off like Aardman does with their Wallace and Gromit characters. Lee Hardcastle is funded by Kickstarter, which helps him create his claymations without having to worry about where the next pay check will come from for his work. It means he can work full time at his freelance practice.
We met him at Bradford Animation Festival in October and we were able to see his 'Ghost Burger' animation which keeps within his style of weird and wonderful stories. His most well known claymation is 'T is for Toilet' which he did for a project with 25 other animators, to create a dramatic death for each letter of the alphabet.
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