Just ask

Say the word, it runs.

The skill fires on natural requests like these. No commands to memorize.

“Make a claymation ad for my product”“Aardman / Wallace and Gromit style ad”“Stop-motion clay ad for my brand”“Plasticine story ad”

The pipeline

What the skill does for you.

1
Lock the cast and story
The skill reads your brand, picks the story variation for the product category, then locks a cast-and-continuity sheet plus an 8-beat narrated arc, from everyday setup to a confident resolution. This is the one mandatory approval gate, and script edits are free.
2
Sculpt the storyboard
One hand-sculpted plasticine still per beat with gpt-image-2, generated sequentially and each anchored on the prior approved still so the character's face holds across all eight beats. It verifies real clay (thumbprints, tool marks, matte eyes) before anything animates.
3
Bring the clay to life
Each approved still animates into smooth clay motion with Gemini Omni Flash, with anti-smoothing constraints on every prompt so the sculpt never drifts into glossy 3D. Seedance 2.0 is the approved fallback for a controlled transformation reveal.
4
Feature the product as a clay prop
The real product photo rides along as a reference and is re-sculpted into a matte, hand-painted clay prop on the discovery, transformation, and resolution beats, with the exact label copied. Never a photoreal bottle composited into a clay set.
5
Narrate and score
One warm storyteller voiceover carries all eight beats and a gentle instrumental bed sits under it, generated in-platform and mixed over the clay foley with sidechain ducking so the voice always reads.
6
Stitch, caption, publish
The clips stitch into one spot in beat order, optional styled captions can be burned in, and the finished ad can post to a connected social account.

The model stack

Right model, right job.

gpt-image-2Hand-sculpted clay stills

Gemini Omni FlashSmooth clay image-to-video

Seedance 2.0End-frame transformation fallback

xAI TTSWarm storyteller voiceover

MiniMax 2.6Instrumental score bed

What you get

The deliverable.

A finished vertical (9:16) narrated claymation ad
One hand-sculpted clay clip per story beat
A locked cast sheet and approved 8-beat script
One consistent voiceover and score, mixed in
Everything filed in your Advibly library, ready to publish

Install

Add it in seconds.

Install the skill, then make sure the Advibly MCP is connected so it has tools to call. Works with every skills-capable agent.

Claude Code

Claude

Cursor

Codex

VS Code

OpenClaw

Hermes

ChatGPT

Connect the Advibly MCP first

One command (any agent)

npx skills add advibly/skills -s claymation-ad

Works with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any agent that supports skills. Pulls straight from GitHub.

Manual (Claude Code)

git clone https://github.com/advibly/skills.git
cp -R skills/claymation-ad ~/.claude/skills/

Or in Claude Desktop: Settings → Skills → Install and select the skill folder.

Bundled references

The playbook.

Each skill ships with reference docs the agent loads on demand, so the craft is baked in.

cast-and-story.md

The 8-beat arc, the cast-and-continuity sheet template, category variations, the 5-beat short, and narration timing.

storyboard-prompts.md

The six-block image prompt structure, the STYLE LOCK and MATERIAL DETAIL blocks, per-beat formulas, and the clay QA checklist.

animate-prompts.md

Model selection, reusable subject-lock fragments, per-beat animation formulas, and the anti-smoothing constraint blocks.

audio-and-gotchas.md

The voiceover voice map, the music brief, the full final-mix ffmpeg recipe, the optional stop-motion judder pass, and captions.

Honest limits

What to watch for.

Clay smoothing is the constant fight: video models drift sculpted clay toward glossy 3D mid-clip. The prompts guard it hard, but weak clips get re-rolled.
Identity can drift across beats. The fix is regenerating that still on the prior anchor, not the motion prompt.
Product label text garbles when the prop is small or the scene is busy. Keep the clay bottle large and close on the product beats.
One simple action per beat. Complex two-handed manipulation warps.
The narrator is one of five xAI voices, picked once and held across the whole ad, not a specific voice cast.

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