CLAY ANIMATION FOR TELEVISION COMMERCIAL  
1A CURRY PUFF PROJECT

DEVELOPING THE VARIOUS CHARACTERS OF 
THE CURRY PUFF FLAVORS

About Curry Puffs

Curry Puffs are pastry pouches filled with curried potatoes, deep fry them until they were golden brown.
In Singapore, many versions of the humble Curry Puff have evolved. The Malay,"Epok-epok" is smaller and 
usually filled with curried potatos or canned sardines. The Chinese version is larger, also contains curried potatos
with chicken curry, some versions, includes half a boiled egg. 
After more than 50 years, the humble savory snacks of Singapore offers a wide variety of flavors to go with 
your tea. Now, they have yam, sardine, durian, chilli crab and black pepper chicken puff.

Developments of the original curry puff characters
created in polymer clay, Potato Chicken puff, 
Durian puff, Sardine puff and Chili Crab potato puff.

Earlier versions of  polymer clay Yam Puff and Black 
Pepper chicken potato Puff.

Modified version of curry puff animactors using Sculpey
SuperFlex Polymer clay, fine wires and tiny magnets, 
for animation study, in relation to scale and movement.

Potato Chicken puff was converted to Black Pepper 
Chicken puff by adding a black pepper shaker.

Different scale curry puffs.

Final version and design of the curry puff animactors 
created with Sculpey SuperFlex polymer clay. Some 
of the animactors are embedded with fine wire 
armatures, conceal with miniature magnets holding 
different parts for clay action.

Completed Black Pepper Chicken Potato Curry 
Puff with flexible chicken feet and moving head 
and detachable black pepper shaker.
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Chili Crab bendable claws, legs with magnetic 
eyeballs and mouth.
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Durian flavor curry puff rotating eyeballs and 
moving feet 

Potato Chicken flavor, flexible chicken legs, 
moving head shift from side to side, rotating 
head and eyeballs.
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Sliced Yam with changeable magnetic eyes 
and mouth, moving legs.

Sardine flavor puff, flexible pectoral, anal, and 
caudal flns, complete with rotating eyballs.
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1A Curry Puffs with rotating eyeballs ready 
for the paper bag
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