How is claymation made?

Specifically, claymation is made by first creating a "puppet" out of clay. Then, this puppet is taken to somewhere where the animator can animate it, possibly in a set, poses the character, then takes one picture of it. The animator checks to see if the character is in a position he/she likes, moves the puppet slightly, then takes another picture. The pictures that the animator is taking are the frames of a movie. Each one by itself looks like a still picture, but if played one after another at a fast speed, it looks as though the puppet is moving all by itself. The animator keeps taking pictures, moving the puppet only slightly, taking a picture, etc., until the puppet has completed the motion that the animator wanted to achieve. This process usually takes a long time, even for the shortest movies because the time it takes to move the puppet is longer than the frame that the animator is getting out of it.