Stop-Motion Feel (Claymation)

What it is

The claymation look taking over feeds in 2026, as motion you can apply to anything: time is held in steps like a stop-motion camera taking twelve pictures a second, each held picture gets a tiny camera shift, outlines boil from picture to picture, and shapes are shaded like matte clay with thumbprint dimples, a soft warm key and a cool rim from an overcast sky. The demo is a clay ball hopping past a stack of clay blocks on a felt table. Set the pictures per second, the jitter, the boil, the clay colours and the felt.

Reuse it in your own idea

• Feed hold(info).time into Spring Motion’s hop() for a clay character that bounces in held frames.
• Draw a Kinetic Title with drawClay blocks as letters for a handmade sticker title.
• Use drawFelt as a backdrop and the jitter alone to make any existing 2D scene feel shot on a tabletop.

Which part is reusable

src/stop-motion-feel.js is the ingredient your AI reuses. demo.js is only the example scene around it, and uses the demo harness only for the demo.

Good to know

• Clay shading is a 2D illusion (gradients), not a 3D material.
• Thumbprints and boil are random per held picture by seed, not sculpted detail.