Photo to Claymation

Usually because everything came back as one material. A puppet is clay *plus* cloth plus glass eyes, and it is the join between them that sells it. Ask explicitly for real fabric clothing and eyes with a glass highlight, and the result stops looking carved and starts looking built.

No — this produces a still frame that looks like it came from a stop-motion film. If you want the character to actually move, take the result and run it through a video tool; a clay puppet animates well because a viewer expects slightly jerky, weighty motion from one anyway.

Because puppet faces have a small expressive vocabulary — each expression is a sculpted state rather than a continuous range — and the model leans toward the readable ones. Subtle expressions tend to resolve to neutral or to a full grin. Bring the expression you want in the source photo.

The shape yes, the strands no. Hair becomes sculpted clay masses or a wool-like material with the same silhouette and colour, because that is how a physical puppet's hair is made. Very fine or very intricate styles simplify the most.

Yes, and pairs often work better than singles because the scene starts reading as a shot from a film rather than a portrait. Both faces need to be clear in the source; a second person half out of frame usually comes back rebuilt into someone else.

It stays, but it takes on the set treatment — shallower focus and warmer light, so it reads as a miniature build behind the character. If you want a specific set instead, describe it, and expect the character to change slightly when the model has two things to invent at once.

No. It runs on the free image editor in the browser with credits to start, so you can put one portrait through and judge the result before deciding anything else.