Xmas doll effect

A wide shot where a standing person becomes a jointed figure. a wide shot of a person standing in the middle of a plain room holding a raised arm pose, glaze spreading across their whole body from the feet upward until the surface is uniformly glossy, ball joints appearing at the ankles, knees, hips, shoulders and wrists in turn as the change reaches them, the pose held exactly through the whole transformation, the room unchanged, locked wide camera

Eight still figures start moving on the same frame. a wide shot of a long shelf holding eight glazed jointed figures in festive clothes, every one of them completely still for a long beat so the shelf reads as a display, then all eight starting to move on the same frame with hinged arms lifting and heads clicking round in short steps, each one moving to its own rhythm afterward, the shelf and the wall behind them static, locked wide camera

A painted figure that has not moved blinks and turns its head. a small glazed jointed figure in festive clothes standing perfectly still on a mantelpiece among unmoving ornaments, holding motionless long enough to read as an object, then the painted eyes blinking once and the head turning in short hinged steps toward camera, one arm lifting at the shoulder joint in a stiff arc, the rest of the mantelpiece completely static, locked camera close on the figure

Every step bends only at the hinges. a jointed wooden figure in festive clothes walking toward camera down a narrow floorboard corridor, each leg swinging from a single hip hinge with no ankle roll, the feet landing flat with a light wooden knock, the arms swinging from the shoulder joints in fixed arcs and the torso staying upright and still, the head not bobbing at all, warm corridor lamp light, locked camera low at the end of the corridor

Glaze travels up the arms and ball joints appear as it goes. a person standing still in a plain studio with bare forearms, smooth glossy painted glaze spreading up from the fingertips over the hands and forearms, the surface hardening into a shell with a hard specular highlight, round ball joints forming at each wrist and elbow as the glaze reaches them, the skin above the change still ordinary skin for contrast, the pose unchanged throughout, locked camera on the arms

A slow mechanical rotation with the arms locked out. a glazed jointed figure in a festive coat standing on a round wooden base on a side table, the base rotating at a slow even mechanical speed and carrying the figure with it, the arms held out and locked at the shoulders and only the head clicking round a notch at a time to stay facing camera through the turn, the glaze picking up a travelling highlight, locked camera level with the base

A wide table shot with two mechanical rotations out of step. a wide shot of a long table carrying two round wooden bases, each with a glazed jointed figure standing on it in festive clothes, both bases rotating at slow even mechanical speeds but out of step with each other, the arms of each figure lifting and lowering in stiff repeating arcs at the shoulder joints, the highlights travelling across both glazed surfaces as they turn, locked wide camera

A full size figure scales down between two ornaments. a person standing in front of a bookshelf, then scaling down smoothly toward the middle shelf while keeping the same pose and proportions, the surrounding books and ornaments growing enormous in comparison as the change goes on, the figure settling upright on the shelf at the same height as a glass bauble beside it, its surface now glazed and its joints round and visible, locked camera at shelf height

A small figure climbs to the floor and grows to full height. a wide shot of a room with a small glazed jointed figure standing on a low shelf, the figure climbing down stiffly onto the floor with hinged limbs and then scaling up smoothly to full human height in the middle of the room, the glaze giving way to ordinary skin and clothing from the feet upward as it grows, the joints smoothing out last at the shoulders, camera easing back as the figure rises

Painted cheeks and a hard shine arrive without changing the features. a close vertical framing of a face in a dressing nook, a hard lacquer shine spreading across the forehead and down over the cheeks, two circles of painted pink setting on the cheekbones with clean edges, the lips taking a flat painted finish and the eyelashes stiffening into moulded strokes, the shape of the features and the likeness staying exactly as they were under the finish, locked camera close