stop-motion-craft-style

Stop Motion / Craft Style

Handmade physicality. Imperfect edges. Material honesty.

Sublooks

Claymation, paper craft, felt/plush, wooden puppet

Tenets

1. Visible craft seams / fingerprints (subtle)
2. Real-world craft materials
3. Slight irregularity in forms
4. Practical light feel
5. Step-like motion if animating (optional)

Recipe

Look: tabletop miniature. Practical-feeling soft key (one dominant light, small fill), shallow DoF (f/2.8, 85 mm so the subject reads as small), matte materials (roughness 0.7-0.95), no perfect edges; 12 fps feel is done in animation, not here.

1. Light with lighting/light_rig.py preset studio_3pt (warm key like a desk lamp) and render with rendering/render_preset.py eevee_final.
2. Clay/felt/paper material with materials/pbr_material.py: clay [0.8, 0.35, 0.25] roughness 0.85, specular_ior_level 0.2; paper [0.9, 0.88, 0.82] roughness 0.95. Add fingerprints/fibres by a noise bump in prose (Noise Texture to Bump, strength 0.15).
3. Soft handmade shading: stylized-style/toon_material.py with bands 4, rim 0.1, outline 0 for gentle stepped light.
4. Frame with camera-cinematography/camera_rig.py (lens_mm 85, dof_fstop 2.8, fill 0.6), grade with compositing/comp_grade.py cinematic (warmth 0.3).
5. If animating, key every 2 frames on 24 fps (stepped interpolation, constant) for the stop-motion stutter.

import runpy
skills = "<skills_dir>"  # parent folder of this skill (the plugin's skills/ directory)
target = "SM_Asset"      # object to style / dress
r = {}
r["light"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/lighting/scripts/light_rig.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"preset": "studio_3pt", "target": target}})["result"]
r["mat"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/materials/scripts/pbr_material.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"name": "MAT_Clay", "base_color": [0.8, 0.35, 0.25], "roughness": 0.85, "specular_ior_level": 0.2, "objects": [target]}})["result"]
r["render"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/rendering/scripts/render_preset.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"preset": "eevee_final"}})["result"]
r["cam"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/camera-cinematography/scripts/camera_rig.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"target": target, "lens_mm": 85, "dof_fstop": 2.8, "fill": 0.6}})["result"]
r["grade"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/compositing/scripts/comp_grade.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"preset": "cinematic", "warmth": 0.3}})["result"]
result = r