How to Compile a Claymation Portrait from a Likeness Brief

Thumbprints on the cheeks are the likeness. A living-actor caricature is the refuse list.

The matching generator is the Claymation Portrait Compiler from a Likeness Brief (Sculpt Marks, No Celebrities) (Claymation Portrait Compiler From Likeness Brief Sculpt Marks No Celebs) prompt. Browse related cards in the PromptDig library (Browse more prompts). When a filled run survives, share the version you actually use (Share a prompt).

Lock clay colors and sculpt marks before the smile

Compile one claymation portrait still from a likeness brief. Sculpt marks and plasticine truth. No celebrities and no stop-motion shot list. Start by filling Inputs, not by asking the model to remember last week's viral list. If a field is blank, write NONE or NOT IN INPUTS and leave it blank through Generate. The card is built so the model cannot honestly invent a name, logo, movie title, or extra object that you did not paste.

Paste these fields before you hit run:

Likeness brief (age band, hair, clothes, expression; not a celeb): [Likeness]
Clay I lock (colors, finish): [Clay]
Sculpt marks I lock (thumbprints, tool lines): [Marks]
Set I lock (table, backdrop, scale cues): [Set]
Light I lock: [Light]
Aspect I lock: [Aspect or 4:5]
Model I lock (or UNKNOWN): [Model]
Words I must not use: [Banned]
What I must never invent (celebs, brand mascots, extra figures): [Never]
Output format: [Format]
Language: [Lang]
Negative list I lock: [Neg]

That inventory is the honesty ledger. Anything that does not appear there is forbidden in the still. If you catch yourself adding a nice-to-have after the run, you are no longer using the card. You are art-directing in secret. Put the extra fact in Inputs and run again.

Claymation is plasticine on a table, not designer vinyl and not a video. A rolling pin can sit in frame as a scale cue without a centimeter stamp. Flour dust in terracotta hair coils is in the brief; a second clay extra is not. Aardman as a style-copy command stays banned. If you need a 1:1 catalog toy, open the vinyl card. If you need stop-motion, wait for a Video card rather than turning this portrait into a shot list.

Keep it a still; 12fps is the wrong job

Generate is numbered on purpose. Do not skip a step because the first paragraph looked like a finished image prompt. The early steps exist to stop later prose from smuggling celebrities, logos, or neighboring-card syntax.

Walk the Generate list in order:

1. Honesty ledger: Likeness type, Clay colors, Marks, Set, Light, Aspect, Model, Lang. Forbidden: celebrity caricature, brand mascots, extra figures.
2. Portrait still: one English tabletop prompt. Quote Clay and Marks. Figure is plasticine, not vinyl and not live action.
3. Motion: still only. If a later job wants 12fps stutter, write WRONG JOB rather than adding a shot list.
4. Negative block: print Neg plus celebrity, mascots, smooth CGI, title cards.
5. Refuse list: vinyl toy packshot, stop-motion shot list, living-actor caricature, studio brand watermark.
6. Scale: quote scale cues from Set or write SCALE UNKNOWN. Do not invent a centimeter height.
7. Never: do not add a second clay extra to fill the frame.
8. Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Format as Format. Gaps list of five.

If a step asks for a version lock, quote the version from Inputs in the output. If a step asks for a refuse list, keep the refuse list in the published artifact, not in a sidebar you delete. Reviewers should see which viral format you refused.

Refuse vinyl toys, mascots, and studio watermarks

Most failures are the same shape: a missing field gets a confident fill. A handwritten name appears on a polaroid. A movie title appears in neon. A Funko head appears on an original sculpt. A publisher mark appears on a cover. Your review is to search the draft for names, logos, and titles, then grep Inputs. No match means cut.

Honor the constraints as hard stops, not vibes:

• Claymation portrait still from Likeness. Not vinyl toy and not a video shot list.
• No celebrities. No brand mascots. Honor Aspect.
• No emojis.

When the card says no celebrities, no fake brand logos, or no invented stats, that sentence belongs in the artifact. Deleting it to look more finished is how you inherit a takedown.

Write SCALE UNKNOWN rather than inventing 18cm

Finish with the compliance pass the prompt already asks for. Quote the banned-word hits. Cut them. Print aspect. Print Caption NONE or COUNTRY NONE when that is the lock. List gaps as gaps. Five missing facts (quality tier, hex, seed, Kelvin, scale) are more useful than one smooth paragraph.

Tags on the card (claymation portrait compiler, sculpt marks plasticine still, no celebrities clay likeness) are a reminder of the job shape, not an invitation to wander into a neighboring cluster. If you need a different surface, open a different PromptDig card rather than stretching this one.

Fill the card, then run

Replace every bracket. Run on ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, then paste the compiled still into GPT Image 2, Flux 1.1, Nano Banana 2, Grok Imagine, or the still model you actually locked. Read the ledger first, then the still. If the model invents a celebrity, a logo, a movie title, or a handwritten name, discard the run. Tighten Inputs. Run again. Share the filled card that survived, not the first draft that sounded like a viral list.

A good run of Claymation Portrait Compiler from a Likeness Brief (Sculpt Marks, No Celebrities) is smaller than a bad run. It names the model, quotes the brief, and leaves blanks blank. Keep the refuse list visible. Keep the gaps list visible. When the still survives, share the filled version (Share a prompt) so the next person starts from the same lock list.