# Clay Stop-Motion: motion graphics style

> Clay balls drop in and are sculpted, frame by frame at 12 fps, into chunky letters with fingerprints and soft highlights, then squish back into balls. Friendly and handmade, great for kids content, food brands and playful posts.

- Category: [Paper & Craft](https://aimotions.art/category/paper-craft/)
- Also known as: clay animation, clay letters, modeling clay text, stop motion clay, squishy clay type, handmade clay lettering
- Demo built with: WebGL · Energy: Lively · Background: Light bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/clay-stop-motion/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/clay-stop-motion/

## Prompt (replace [TEXT] with your text)

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Animate [TEXT] as clay stop-motion at 12 frames per second, every frame held. Each letter is chunky, rounded and puffy, sculpted from matte modeling clay in its own saturated color (tomato, sunflower, grass, sky blue, grape, tangerine, teal, pink). Start with clay balls dropping onto a pastel peach paper sweep, bouncing with squash; then each ball is pushed, frame by frame, into its letter. Hold while letters hop one after another with anticipation, stretch and squash. Every frame the surface changes slightly (tiny dents, fingerprint whorls, a soft broad highlight), so it boils like hand-animated clay, and letters jitter by a pixel or two. Finish by squishing the letters back into balls and flattening them, then loop.
```

## Visual DNA

- Chunky rounded letters in matte, saturated modeling-clay colors
- Stepped 12 fps animation with a surface that re-sculpts every frame
- Fingerprint whorls and small dents catching a soft specular highlight
- Balls morph into letters and back, with squash-and-stretch hops
- Pastel paper sweep backdrop with soft contact shadows

The prompts are free to copy, adapt and use in personal and commercial projects, with no credit required. Republishing the collection or a substantial part of it (for example as another library or a dataset) requires written permission.

How to cite: Clay Stop-Motion, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/clay-stop-motion/