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2D claymation effect on footage, made with the "Claymation Effect" template for After Effects.
Lens Flare design for Claymation Effect

CLAYMATION EFFECT
For Adobe After Effects

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$29

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Claymation Effect For Footage - After Effects (Turn Video into a Clay Animation)
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What is it?

The Claymation Effect is a one-of-a-kind tool for turning ordinary footage into a stop-motion clay animation in Adobe After Effects. What would normally take weeks to create can now be made in minutes, simply by dropping in your video footage, photo, cartoon, graphics, or logo. Convenient controls allow you to customize the colors, detail level, frame rate, and more.

 

Whether it's for a music video, logo animation, title graphics, or animated short film... the Claymation Effect is fun, realistic, and easy to use!

Modeling clay divider line element
Pile of small lumps of colorful clay
Lump of colored play-doh.
Claymation design element

Turn your footage into a
STOP-MOTION CLAY ANIMATION!

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2025 UPDATE with custom clay text, shapes, strokes, and transition FX!
A snowman illustration with a claymation effect, made in After Effects. The Claymation Effect turns footage and images into stacks of clay.
Before and after image with a clay effect, made with the "Claymation Effect" template for Adobe After Effects, from Creation Effects.
Close-up of a colored clay texture
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Watch the "Claymation Effect" tutorial on YouTube

Even After Effects beginners will have no problem creating a claymation cartoon from their footage by following this tutorial.

Art textures and art supplies collage, background for "Creation Art Effects" After Effects template.

The "Claymation Effect" and 49 other unique art effects are included in the "Creation Art Effects" bundle.

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Clay Splotch made in After Effects, with the "Claymation Effect" from Creation Effects.
"I worked at Will Vinton Studios for 11 years, the creator that popularized the claymation process that most people know, and I have to say this is a very convincing effect to what is normally a very time-consuming process." 
- Jamie Haggerty
Lens flare element for Claymation FX

Need to Know

  • Last update: 04/02/2025. The 2025 update is compatible with Adobe After Effects, versions 2023 and all later versions. Older versions of the template are included, compatible with After Effects versions CS5 and later. This template works in both Windows and macOS – all you need is After Effects. No plugins required.

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  • The project includes comps for both HD (1920x1080) and 4K (3840x2160). The effects also work great on photos, text, prerendered animations, and graphics with transparent backgrounds.

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  • Footage and music in demo video not included. 

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  • This template has been "universalized", so it will work in After Effects running in any language.

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The Claymation Effect template is not a plugin, so there is nothing to install. Rather, it's an Adobe After Effects project file, commonly known as a "template" because most of the work is already done and the user needs only to make their own customizations. This template is compatible with version 2023 as well as all later versions of After Effects. 

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Claymation Effect contains copyrighted intellectual property. The animations you create with this product are 100% yours and can be used for commercial purposes, but the sharing or online posting of project files with or for anyone other than a client is prohibited. See the Terms and Conditions for more details.

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Positive and/or negative feedback is appreciated. Use the contact page to send me a message.

Before and after of cartoon bear, turn into clay using the "Claymation Effect" in Adobe After Effects.
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