Claymation-look videos, generated with AI

Hand-modelled characters with visible fingerprints and tool marks, lit like a small set. The imperfections are the style.

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Scene generated by Kuak Studio in Claymation style — Image generated by Kuak Studio in this style. It is the same one the product’s gallery shows.

What it looks like

Fingerprints and tool marks left on the surface.
Slightly wonky shapes: nothing is perfect, and that is what sells it.
Warm close lighting, from a miniature set.
Matte colours, with no plastic sheen.

What videos it suits

Videos for a young or family audience.
Comedy and expressive characters: clay exaggerates the face.
Fables, tales and short morals.

You write the scene; Studio handles the style

The style is never named in the script. Each line describes what is seen, and this is how one is written:

A tiny clay baker pulls a tray of bread out of a toy oven in a miniature kitchen.

With this style, Studio suggests the Fable voice (expressive and neutral, great for storytelling). You can swap it from the editor for any of the six, and use a different one on each line.

What to watch out for

Clay hands and fingers are the hardest thing to get right: if a scene shows them in close-up, there is a good chance they come out odd. Ask for shots where the hands are busy or out of frame, and regenerate the scene if it does not hold up.

How it is done, step by step

Pick the style before generating

When you create a video, Kuak Studio shows a gallery of 58 video templates: nine formats of its own and the 49 visual styles. You pick one and it applies to every scene in the video.
Write the script, or ask for one

Each line of the script is a scene. That is where you describe what is seen — who is in it, where, and what happens — never the style: the template already handles that.
Studio generates voice, images and captions

The voice is generated line by line and the images scene by scene, all in the same style. The captions come from the voice itself, so they stay in sync.
You finish it in the editor

Change a sentence, regenerate only the scene that does not convince you, move the text, add music and export. The editor runs inside your browser and there is nothing to install.

The style is picked, not written. Kuak Studio applies it to every image in the video; in the script you only describe the scene.
Images come out with no text inside, on purpose: AI draws warped letters in the wrong language. Titles and captions go on editor layers, where they read properly and can be fixed.
Each scene is an image the editor gives camera movement to. It is not frame-by-frame animation, and saying so up front avoids expecting something else.

Frequently asked questions

Is it really stop motion?

No. They are generated images with the look of plasticine stop motion — texture, imperfections and set lighting — then animated in the editor with camera moves. Nothing was really sculpted or photographed, and this page says so because that is the difference.

How is it different from the Clay style?

Claymation goes for the look of a shoot: fingerprints, hard light and set grime. Clay is cleaner and more stylised, with matte figures in soft colours and no prints. One looks filmed; the other, sculpted.

Does it work for long videos?

Yes, and it holds up well because every scene has its own texture and does not tire the eye. What helps is pinning the character’s look in the script from the first line, because the modelling varies more than in a drawn style.