Modelling Clay Poster
A modelled-clay poster — a hanging tag, a character, a grassy foot — held to what clay can physically do, since one glass lens or one sharp corner breaks the whole illusion. Six fields.
We made two examples: a character with a magnifier, and a harbour scene with a lantern, rope and a bollard. In both, everything is opaque clay: the lens is a solid disc and the lantern a flat yellow rectangle, with no glow and no glass. The tag hangs from two straps in one and a single strap in the other, because the fields did not set a number.
Everything looks modelled from the same matt clay: nothing is glass, nothing shines, and no corner is sharp. Things that would be transparent in real life, like a lens, come out as opaque pieces with their own grain. Fine details such as whiskers or grass come out as pressed grooves or blades, not threads. If you want a set number of straps or parts, write it in the field.
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Input
Character a round ginger cat in a yellow explorer's hat with
a small canvas backpack, mid-stride, tail up
Holding a magnifier as a solid ring with an opaque pale
disc inside, no transparency, no highlight
Words @THE CURIOUS CAT · BRAVE ENOUGH TO BE A ·
(CURIOUS) TRAVELLER · our backpack holds /
curiosity and / the will to go
Ribbon pale blue woven, printed EXPLORE MORE, WORRY LESS
Props a signpost reading TRAVEL, a tree, a rounded rock
Palette sky blue, warm orange, cream, grass green
Returned 1 poster · 2:3 · matt clay, soft studio light
material every object opaque and matt - no glass, no chrome,
no screen, no gloss anywhere
radius nothing comes to a point; every corner, leaf tip and
hat brim carries a visible roundness
making thumbprints across the sky, a seam where the cat
meets the card, letters pressed into the surface
tag orange border, cream card with a torn deckle edge,
hung on two white rings
foot grass with three props, each modelled the same wayYou fill in 6 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The character
- 2What it is holding — modelled, not glass
- 3The words on the tag
- 4The ribbon and its words
- 5The props in the grass
- 6The palette
Modelling Clay Poster
What this makes
A modelled-clay poster — a hanging tag, a character, a grassy foot — held to what clay can physically do, since one glass lens or one sharp corner breaks the whole illusion. Six fields.
The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.
How to use it
- Copy the whole template with the button above.
- Replace the six FIELDS lines. In the second, say how a difficult object is modelled rather than what it is — a solid disc rather than a lens, a painted rectangle rather than a screen.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the poster.
- Look for anything shiny or see-through before shipping. One glass lens in an otherwise consistent scene is the thing that gives it away.
What you swap
- The character
- a round ginger cat in a yellow explorer's hat with a small canvas backpack, mid-stride, tail up
- What it is holding — modelled, not glass
- a magnifier made as a solid ring with an opaque pale disc inside it, no transparency and no highlight
- The words on the tag
- @THE CURIOUS CAT · BRAVE ENOUGH TO BE A · (CURIOUS) TRAVELLER · our backpack holds / curiosity and / the will to go
- The ribbon and its words
- a pale blue woven ribbon printed EXPLORE MORE, WORRY LESS running down it
- The props in the grass
- a small wooden signpost reading TRAVEL, a tree, a rounded rock
- The palette
- bright sky blue, warm orange tag, cream card, grass green
Before it runs
- A character with a simple silhouette. Clay has a minimum thickness, so thin limbs, whiskers and antennae cannot be modelled — they have to be pressed lines instead.
- Props you can imagine in plasticine. If an object only reads as itself when it is shiny or see-through, it needs redesigning before it goes in.
- Short words. Pressed lettering has a minimum stroke width, and small type turns to mush at this scale.
When to reach for it
When something should look made by hand rather than designed: a character introduction, a small brand, a children's range, a friendly announcement. Templates in this style describe the modelling beautifully and then ask for a magnifier, a screen or a scan code, all of which clay cannot be.
What changes
- One warm plasticine scene: a tag hung on a ribbon over a modelled sky, a character pressed on like a sticker, props in the grass beneath.
- Every object made of the same opaque material, so nothing is transparent, mirrored or knife-edged.
- A minimum radius on everything — clay has no points, and a single sharp corner reads as a 3D render wearing clay's clothes.
- Visible making: thumbprints in the flats, seams where one piece sits on another, letters pressed rather than printed.
- No scan codes, platform bars or borrowed interface furniture — the poster carries only what you name.
Pairs with
- 3D Character Screen BreakoutA soft-3D character coming out of a screen — with the crossing proved: named parts behind the plane, named parts through it, and the surface visibly giving way. Five fields.
- Bakery Food PosterA bakery-counter food poster — one dish shot large under a Didot title — with the overlap specified as a construction so the picture layers instead of stacking. Six fields.
- Barcode PosterA barcode poster in two colours — with the code built on a base module, guard bars and a numeral row, so it reads as a scanned object rather than a stripe field. Five fields.