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Fans of delightfully weird claymation are spoiled with this year’s animated short category, from the sweets-filled fantasy of “Magic Candies” to the feral survival story of “Wander to Wonder.”

"I guess it's just the magic of claymation, as he's so emotive but he doesn't speak at all," she said.

Though Christmas carols and Claymation specials have for some reason neglected the heist of St. Nick’s dead body, the details of that theft actually can tell us a lot about mythmaking and the power of stories, however bizarre, to shape reality.

Following them is a three-way tie: “Despicable Me 4,” “Moana 2” and the Australian claymation for grownups “Memoir of a Snail,” written and directed by Oscar winner Adam Elliot.

“This recognition served as a tremendous boost to the credibility of clay as an animation medium, bulldozing a path for even greater works,” Rick Cooper, a former production manager for Will Vinton Productions, a Claymation film company, wrote in the journal Design for Arts in Education.