novoads-claymation-ad
Installation
SKILL.md
Novoads Claymation Ad
One product in. A 40 to 70 second hand-sculpted clay ad out, cut from five to eight separately rendered beats, with narration, music and captions.
This is the sibling of novoads-pixar-ad and it runs the same pipeline: the
same gates, the same calls, the same still gate, the same local assembly. Read
that skill for the pipeline. This file owns two things it does not: the clay
look, and a narrative arc that is longer and quieter than the Pixar one.
The two are not interchangeable, and the difference is not decoration:
| Pixar storyboard | Claymation storyboard | |
|---|---|---|
| Hook | an anthropomorphized problem with eyes, speaking | a named person in their kitchen, and a narrator |
| Arc | 4 to 6 beats, a want and a turn | 5 to 8 beats, a small life story |
| Voice | in-scene SYNC plus narration | a storyteller carrying almost all of it |
| Surface | smooth, wet-eyed, subsurface scattering | matte clay, thumbprints, tool marks |
| Runs on | want, then relief | affection for a character |