alright today I'd like to demonstrate to you how to make a basic claymation armature or the metal frame inside of a mature claymation models it's pretty simple you're going to need some metal wire I've got 19 gauge here but anything around their works depends on how flexible you want to be and a pair of pliers with the wire cutter piece in them so the first thing you're going to want to do is cut off a piece of wire that is significantly more by like four inches at least longer than your claymation model will be tall twice as tall actually so double the height and add a couple inches of what you actually want your claymation models look like you're going to fold it in half and give it a bit of a pinch about where you want the neck to be so that creates a basic head shape there you're not going to fold the wires over but they should be in pinch together the neck next thing you're going to want to do is cut another piece of wire off that is going to be again four or five inches longer than you actually want the arm span to be so cut that off you're going to want to feed the arm wire through the neck of the the body frame piece and you're going to want to twist it around one side of the neck so just like so like that only connected to you on the side at the moment then you're going to want to pinch that neck again and twist it around both sides of the neck this secures your neck and your legs and your arms so they all stay in the positions that they are supposed to be in helps later when animating so now it's already starting to look like a person what you're going to want to do is trim the legs to just slightly longer than you actually want them to be and trim the arms so just slightly longer than you want them to be now the only thing left to do is to fold the the feet up so just take like maybe half an inch from the bottom fold it up on both sides same thing with the arms fold it in and just like that you have a basic claymation armature ready for clay application