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Claymation

Plasticine figures with fingerprints and soft studio light.

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Claymation stop-motion look: characters and sets sculpted from plasticine, with visible fingerprints, tool marks and soft rounded forms. Lumpy handmade imperfections, saturated but natural colors, small physical sets with real miniature props, lit like a tabletop film set with a warm, soft key light and shallow depth of field.

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What is a clay AI image generator?

It makes images that look like handmade clay models photographed on a miniature set. You name the clay, the marks a hand leaves in it and the light on the set, and the model sculpts the scene. On Nano Banana 2.1 an image costs 10 credits. You can start for free.

What makes the look

Material, hand marks, scale and set light

A smooth 3D render looks like plastic. Clay needs the marks of the person who made it and the light of a small set.

  1. Material

    Plasticine is soft and matte with rounded edges. Polymer clay is smoother, with crisp edges and a faint sheen.

  2. Hand marks

    Fingerprints, tool lines, seams where two pieces join and shapes that are a little uneven. Perfect symmetry gives it away.

  1. Scale

    Everything is small enough to sit on a table: chunky details, thick limbs, props pressed together from simple shapes.

  2. Set light

    One warm key light, soft shadows and a shallow depth of field, like a stop-motion still shot close to the model.

Category
3D and stop-motion
Best subjects
Characters, mascots, food, rooms, products
Credits
10 per image on Nano Banana 2.1
Resolution
1K, 2K or 4K
References
Up to 14 images

Your photo, in clay

Attach a photo of yourself and ask for clay.

A phone selfie of a young man with black hair and round wire glasses in an olive hoodie, in a room lit by a warm lamp
A young man in round glasses and an olive hoodie as a plasticine figure with sculpted hair and tool marks in the clay, in a warm lamp-lit room

How to make a clay image

  1. Pick the clay and the scale

    Say whether it is soft plasticine or smooth polymer clay, and whether you want one figure, a plate of food or a whole room.

  2. Leave the hand in it

    Ask for fingerprints, tool marks and uneven seams. Without them, the model drifts toward a clean plastic render.

  3. Light it like a set

    Give one warm light and a direction, a plain backdrop or a tabletop, and a shallow depth of field so it reads as a small model.

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