In 1912 the first clay stop motion animation was created with Modelling Extraordinary by Walter R Booth. A few years later in December 1916 the first woman animator, Helena Smith Dayton, started experimenting with the idea of using clay in stop motion animation. Then in 1917 she released her first animated film which was an adaption of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The idea of using clay models in stop motion was a massive development for stop motion animation and also one of the most successful, as it is still widely being used today in films such as Wallace and Gromitand also Shaun the Sheep. It is created in roughly the same way as earlier stop motion, by taking many photo's and placing them all together to form a film. However with claymation instead of drawings, clay is used and each model is changed every so slightly during the production of a scene. For example in Wallace and Gromit, if Wallace was to pick up a cheese cracker, a photo would have to be taken before he'd moved, then his arm would be moved about 1 millimetre and another photo would be taken. This would go on and on until he had reached the cracker and placed it in his mouth. Here is a clip from youtube of some more recently made claymation:
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