Handmade Clay Figure Diorama

Works with: Gemini · ChatGPT (any AI image editor)

Your whole photo rebuilt as a charming handmade clay miniature scene.

Recreate this photo as a handmade clay figure diorama. Keep my facial features recognizable in the clay style, and rebuild the whole scene from the photo — background, clothing and objects — in miniature clay with visible fingerprints and tool marks. Warm craft-room lighting, macro photography with shallow depth of field.

What to watch for

Clay is the friendliest style for hands — ours simplified them into smooth mitts with no separate fingers, which is exactly right and sidesteps the usual problem entirely. 'Rebuild the whole scene from the photo' is aspirational though: ours invented a sofa, coffee table and rug that were nowhere in the source, while keeping the one vase of dry branches that was. Name any object you actually need. Fingerprints and tool marks in the clay come through beautifully.

How to use it

Only edit photos you have permission to use, including permission from the people pictured.

1. Choose a photo that clearly shows the hairstyle and clothing you want translated into a miniature.
2. Attach the source in an AI image editor compatible with this prompt (Gemini · ChatGPT (any AI image editor)), then paste the prompt. Specify the material and display you want, and remove accessories or packaging text you do not need.
3. Check the miniature against the source for recognizable features and clothing. Inspect its hands, base, and contact shadows before saving.
4. Save the accepted image separately from the original and label it as AI-edited when sharing. Use the saved edit as the source if you choose to animate it next.