**English** | [中文](../zh/stop-motion-cadence.md) [← All prompt templates](../../../README.md#-prompt-templates-by-category) · [Template index](./README.md) # 🎨 Stop motion and stepped cadence > Stop motion is a timing spec before it is a look. Pin the frame rate and the hold count, name the craft material, and ban the three things that silently smooth it away.
Stop-Motion Animation: Wolf Pack Attack Sequence Stop-Motion Oil Painting Animation Hand-Drawn Stop Motion: Blizzard Scene Stop-Motion Playing Card Art Short
## Copy this Hit the copy button on the block, replace everything in [square brackets] with your own details, and send it to any AI chat (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) together with your reference images. It will write a Seedance-ready prompt for you that follows this template. ````text I want a clip with a stop-motion feel. [Materials: felt and clay.] [Content: a little felt fox pitching a tent in the forest.] [The stepped, frame-by-frame cadence should be obvious.] Using the prompt template below, rewrite it into one ready-to-use Seedance video prompt for me: #### Stop motion and stepped cadence Stop motion is a timing spec before it is a look. Pin the frame rate and the hold count, name the craft material, and ban the three things that silently smooth it away. **Use when:** Claymation, paper-cut, moving-oil-painting, collage and tabletop object animation. 24 cases in the corpus sit in this family. **Guidance:** - Pin the cadence numerically: `True 12fps, ANIMATED ON TWOS: 12 distinct hand-painted drawings per second, each pose held two frames then snapping to the next, never gliding`. - Name the material and exclude its neighbours in the same breath. The wolf-attack case writes a hand-painted 2D look, a moving oil painting, NOT clay, NOT puppets, NOT 3D. - The negative trio is mandatory: NO smooth interpolation, NO motion blur, NO morphing. These three are the main routes by which stepped motion gets silently smoothed back out. - For tabletop work, lock the camera completely — perfectly locked top-down overhead, no camera movement, no hands, no surrounding objects — and let only the subject change. - Add craft imperfections as requirements: uneven handmade edges, tiny positional jitter between poses, an occasional one-frame motion smear, and a constant painterly boil in the outlines. **Examples:** [#1](https://goodcase.ai/cases/case-69e5879cc5a7) [#2](https://goodcase.ai/cases/case-b079faa80f0f) [#3](https://goodcase.ai/cases/case-0287a838e662) [#4](https://goodcase.ai/cases/case-50ba683413ff) **Structure:** 1. Cadence declaration: frames per second, frames held per pose, snap not glide 2. Craft material, with adjacent materials explicitly excluded 3. Negative block: no smooth interpolation, no motion blur, no morphing 4. Camera and surface: locked overhead or locked stage, no hands, no extra objects 5. Segment-by-segment transformation of the subject **Pitfalls:** - Not separating environment motion from subject motion. Blizzard haze, smoke and water may drift smoothly while figures step on twos, but you have to say so or everything smooths out together. - Asking for stop motion and a long moving camera shot at once. These are contradictory requirements and the camera move usually wins. - Requesting clay and paper in the same prompt. Their light behaviour differs, and the model blends them into an ambiguous surface. - Keeping normal-scale action at 12fps. Stepped animation drops readability on fast motion, so exaggerate the pose amplitude. ```` ## Three steps | Step | What to do | | --- | --- | | 1 | Copy the whole block above and replace the [bracketed] parts with your product, person or scene. Attach reference images if you can. | | 2 | Send it to any AI chat and get back a Seedance prompt written to this structure. | | 3 | Paste that prompt into Seedance (Dreamina / Jimeng) and generate. If the result is off, check the pitfalls first, then adjust and re-run. | ## Cases in this category (10 filed, by heat) | Preview | Case | Version | Heat | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Erling Haaland Claymation Gardening | [Erling Haaland Claymation Gardening](https://goodcase.ai/cases/erling-haaland-525acabe78da) | 2.0 | 86 | | Twenty-One-Second Vertical Stop-Motion Nature Figure | [Twenty-One-Second Vertical Stop-Motion Nature Figure](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-create-a-21-second-vertical-9-16-cinematic-stop-motion-animation-557fa2797476) | 2.0 | 85 | | Miniature Workers Weave “Smiling” from Red Rope | [Miniature Workers Weave “Smiling” from Red Rope](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-using-the-reference-image-as-the-exact-final-frame-create-a-10-second-stop-mot-eb31041e1c1d) | 2.5 | 64 | | Stop-Motion Clay Miniature Nutella Cafe | [Stop-Motion Clay Miniature Nutella Cafe](https://goodcase.ai/cases/mayaaicreator-seedance-ai-99e38c199ba8) | 2.0 | 21 | | Stop-Motion Animation: Wolf Pack Attack Sequence | [Stop-Motion Animation: Wolf Pack Attack Sequence](https://goodcase.ai/cases/case-69e5879cc5a7) | 2.0 | 14 | | Hand-Drawn Stop Motion: Blizzard Scene | [Hand-Drawn Stop Motion: Blizzard Scene](https://goodcase.ai/cases/case-0287a838e662) | 2.0 | 13 | | Stop-Motion Playing Card Art Short | [Stop-Motion Playing Card Art Short](https://goodcase.ai/cases/case-50ba683413ff) | 2.0 | 11 | | Stop-Motion Oil Painting Animation | [Stop-Motion Oil Painting Animation](https://goodcase.ai/cases/case-b079faa80f0f) | 2.0 | 9 | | Stop-Motion Animation: Stacked Potato Chips | [Stop-Motion Animation: Stacked Potato Chips](https://goodcase.ai/cases/case-7a9235e91c71) | 2.0 | 7 | | Vox-Style Historical Collage Animation | [Vox-Style Historical Collage Animation](https://goodcase.ai/cases/vox-d5c357d5e75d) | 2.0 | 4 | --- [← Previous: Anime and stylized style lock](./anime-style-lock.md) · [Next: 3D cartoon character short →](./3d-cartoon.md)