Van Aken Clay - Color suggestions

[Alynn]

Well I thought about it, and thought about it, and thought about it. And I finally decided to at least TRY to make a stop motion claymation type AGS game.

I looked around and for the price Van Aken clay is considered the best for amaturish projects (or schools or whatever).

I heard of NewPlast which is the clay used with the Wallice and Grommit movies, but I have a feeling it's probably way more expensive than Van Aken.

Anyway I found a store here (just type in Van Aken at the search bar) which has tons of colors. However you can make your own colors by dropping the clay into boiling water and mixing them that way (oil based clay, so it doesn't mix with the water, I think you just use the water to keep it from sticking to the pan).

I know I'll need greed, red, blue, yellow, orange, white, back, and probably fleshtone. Mostly it will just the the characters in clay, I plan on using the D&D models and things I already have for furniture (and probably some of my daughters things too heh).

Well do you have any other colors that you think I should get as well. I'm not looking on spending hundreds of dollars on items, I want just enough to be able to work with it. Also, do you think 1 pound of each color should be enough?

Also do you know of an art supply place that is cheaper, I mean $2.37 per pound of clay is a good price, but anytime you can get stuff fer cheaper it's always better.

My idea is to create a backdrop and use my digital camera to take pictures of the characters to make the walk animations, and pictures of the individual rooms. Which will probably be made out of cardboard. (I have a bunch of large shoeboxes that could easily become the stage for the rooms. If anything it will be a fun exercise in clay animation, something I've always wanted to do, but never got to try.

[Evil]

The only tip I can give you is that Sculpey Clay does NOT dye, so don't even try it.

[Alynn]

Bah I just found out they mail the clay by USPS, which means I can't get it here, I can have it sent directly to my house but thats 157 dollars for worldwide shipping...

Looks like I'll have to find another art supply store.

[SSH]

Try:

http://www.yorkshireartstore.co.uk/plasticene.htm

for newplast and other stuff, or try yopur local branch of:

http://www.multimap.com/map/places.cgi?client=hobbycraftsf

[BOYD1981]

ooh, i've been looking for a place to buy a load of plasitcene for a while now, i was just gonna make do with blu-tack. thanks for that.

[Alynn]

Thanks SSH, looks like the nearest hobbycrafts is nearly 50 miles away . But I found a stateside company that can ship it too me (with all the tools) for less than what it would cost at the other store with all the same items.

So I apprecate the help but I now have what I need.

And for those intersted https://www.misterart.com/