Coiled Clay Extrusion Silhouettes (Style-Only, Image-Conditioned)
Style register: coil-built clay sculpture adapted to the stop-motion miniature, stacked strands, pressed joins, and deliberately visible making rather than molded smoothness.

The prompt
Re-render this image as a photographed stop-motion set whose existing forms have been built by stacking hand-rolled clay coils. Keep every source silhouette, position, and pose, but replace smooth surface shading with broad parallel ropes of plasticine laid along the volume like a potter building a vessel by hand. Flatten selected coils with a thumb to define essential planes; leave others standing as ridges so the method of construction remains readable. At the junctions, let two colors smear where an animator pressed them together, with blunt ends and tiny clay scraps visible at the base. Do not add unrelated swirling forms or rearrange the original shapes. Use a disciplined palette of rust red, pale apricot, dark plum, and smoky blue. Light the miniature with a single low lamp from the side so each coil casts a small directional shadow on the next and the subject's larger contour stays clean. Place it against a plain rough-plaster background and a shallow clay-dusted floor. This should resemble something an animator could reshape one strand at a time between exposures, with mismatched strand thickness, fingertip compression, and occasional drying cracks. Keep coils broad enough to register clearly at small size, never microscopic filigree. No seamless computer tube geometry or machine-perfect repetition. Leave a calm, uncluttered band of negative space along the top or bottom edge where a title could sit. Strictly no on-canvas text, no legible lettering, no signature, no watermark, no logos. Preserve the subject, pose, and composition of the source image exactly, change only the medium and rendering. Aspect ratio matches source.
What it is doing
A body is assembled through repeated ordinary gestures, not summoned whole. The stacked strands allow every layer to remain visible. Changing one coil becomes a credible way to change the entire image over time.
Tuning knobs
- Coil width: `broad hand-rolled ropes` (signature) vs `flat compressed ribbons` vs `irregular short coils`
- Join: `visible thumb-flattened seams` (signature) vs `open gaps` vs `smeared color transitions`
- Color rhythm: `rust-apricot-plum` (signature) vs `chalk-umber-indigo` vs `red-blue-cream`
- Illumination: `low directional lamp` (signature) vs `soft overhead glow` vs `two side lamps`
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