Access & Belonging
Every team had a place in the city and more than one way to contribute to its stories.
Case study / P125
Clayopolis
A shared clay city. Many studios. One stop-motion universe.
- Year
- 2024–25
- Mode
- Project-based studio
- Disciplines
- Worldbuilding / Stop motion / Production design / Sound / Editing
The project
Student production teams moved from story and mood to characters, sets, sound, editing, and release—building original stop-motion shorts inside a shared fictional city. The result is both a film program and a working model for collaborative worldbuilding.
14K+production files indexed
19final films located
4production cohorts
Essential question
“How can separate creative teams build stories that feel like they belong to one living world?”
Project architecture
- 01Studio identities and shared visual rules
- 02Moodboards, scripts, storyboards, and previsualization
- 03Clay character, prop, and environment fabrication
- 04Photography, sound design, editing, posters, and release
Learning made visible
Personalization
Writers, makers, performers, animators, editors, and designers shaped roles around their strengths.
Authentic Work
The work followed a real studio pipeline and ended as films made for an audience.
Collaborative Design
Independent stories became stronger by sharing one world, production language, and deadline.
Exhibition
Films, posters, miniatures, and process artifacts become a walk-through studio premiere.