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Turn one sentence into paper, clay, or anime stop-motion, for about a dollar a scene

The exact setup guide and copy-paste prompts I use: Claude directs two AI models to build the frames and animate them, then stitches the clips into one moving scene. No After Effects, no animation team.

  • The full two-model pipeline (gpt-image-2 for frames, Seedance 2.0 for motion) on one kie.ai key
  • The copy-paste spec Claude fills in from a plain-English idea
  • All 7 style recipes: paper, clay, anime, diorama, felt, chrome, inflatable
  • The two prompt rules and the draft-then-final trick that keeps it about $1 a scene

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A step-by-step guide to building stop-motion motion graphics inside Claude for about a dollar a scene.

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What's Inside

The one-time setup: a kie.ai account (unlocks GPT Image 2 + Seedance 2.0) wired into Claude Copy-paste prompts for all 5 steps: storyboard, stills, animate, stitch, restyle The honest numbers: what it costs, what it doesn't, and where it actually wins Here is the whole thing.

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One-Time Setup

Do this once.

03

The kie.ai Reference (Paste Once)

Paste this into Claude so it knows how to reach both models on your key.

The rest of the guide

  1. Get Your StoryboardWhy this step: the storyboard locks the story before you spend anything on rendering.
  2. Turn Each Beat Into a StillWhy this step: GPT Image 2 draws each beat as a clean start frame.
  3. Animate Every StillWhy this step: Seedance turns each still into motion.
  4. Stitch It Into One VideoWhy this step: this is the edit.
  5. Restyle It From One PromptWhy this step: because the story is already locked, you can respin the whole scene in any look, paper, clay, anime, diorama or felt, for another dollar or so.

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