#like i dont have the respurces or time or energy to make this but i dont want to lose the idea so

[foxyfexyll]

short animated movie where there’s this kid made out of clay. they start off as a poorly defined blob playing with other normal looking children until her parents pull her away and sit her down in front of a mirror. (the parents are also red and made of clay but they’re shaped normally) they take a fettling knife to carve the impression of a face and hair onto the kid and throwing away the excess into the bin. fast forward thru and past high school i guess and the kid realizes that there’s nobody else like her. everyone around her always look perfect and human and complete while she spends hours carving herself and smoothing out edges only to still look amateurish and incomplete (scene where she finishes and even is proud of her work, until she turns her head and realizes that it doesn’t even fit with the other half) she gets so frustrated that she cuts more and more of her form and throws it away, wanting to reduce herself to nothing but a heap of waste. she gets so carried away that she accidentally cuts a big chunk of her face off and gives up

the next night she walks into a bar with a hoodie to hide her face. at some point she walks into the bathroom and stares too long at herself in the mirror, until some lady walks up to her and offers a carving knife. clay kid doesn’t do anything to the lady goes behind her, cuts off a bit of hair, and uses it to sculpt her a new face. after this the lady looks into the mirror herself and pulls her hair out. it turns out all of the other normal looking people are wooden puppets that regularly replace and change their parts and clay kid didnt even know. puppet lady reties her hair, replaces her ear w something in her bag, and whittles something into her cheek. at home our clay kid takes the wastebin and adds it back onto herself and sculpts herself more to her liking than to what’s realistic. when she goes back outside, she’s physically bigger and people notice her easier. later she becomes some sort of teacher despite a buncha kids and parents thinking she looks strange. one of her students breaks their arm and refuses to wear it again because the repaired one isnt good enough, so she offers them a new arm out of clay that they’re allowed to change as they please

Obviously this would all be live action, of real clay and wooden dolls. the average viewer would accept the dolls as regular people with regular human capabilities until the bar scene bc clay girl sees them as such. everyone here is trying to pretend that they’re human and hiding the fact that they’re all just dolls. maybe some secret lore would be that this is some post apocalyptic world where dolls came to life and just started imitating what they saw in humans. clay ppl aren’t super common because they traded all their limbs for wooden ones