New Delhi, Jan. 22 -- During a recent interview with The Independent, the English filmmaker and animator Nick Park expressed his bemusement at Feathers McGraw, the anthropomorphic chicken antagonist from his latest animated film, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (released on Netflix earlier this month), becoming a hated onscreen villain. "They think he is evil. But he is only a four-inch-tall piece of plasticine!" Park's being modest, of course, but the comment works as a tribute to the power of clay animation or 'claymation', a style of stop-motion animation wherein each figure being animated is handmade, usually out of plasticine clay. As with other forms of stop-motion, each still picture ('frame') is then recorded and played rapi...