@JamesLeonardo: Heh, I looked closer at your pics, I saw the name of the brand on the packs of clay. Still, is there any paint or anything you apply on the clay to make it shiny? I thought about it, and I would think a lot of oil based/wax based clays will repel most of those things.
@Camper: Yep, It's nice to have a program for frame capture that has onionskin capabilities. The only problem with that is, most cameras are not compatible with the live input feature unless you have a fancy firewire card (Which I don't have XD) so I've been stuck with using a webcam in the past
. I've been looking at Stop motion Pro, which is supposedly the program that the animators at Aardman use, but again, I don't have a $1000 budget right now.
So, if anyone can recommend an open source stop motion program, please do so!!!