cth9191/animate
Procedural animation in any style for Claude Code: short single-file canvas videos with story, look and storyboard check-ins. 7 built-in styles or one matched from your references, your own music (beat-mapped), real product screenshots, every format from one piece.
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README & documentation
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A Claude Code skill that makes short animated videos entirely in code: one , drawn and scored procedurally, deterministic frame by frame, rendered to MP4 with a headless browser and ffmpeg. Explainers, histories, little stories — in one of the built-in styles, or in a new look matched from your own references. The built-in styles, each a frame from its demo piece: cut paper, crosshatch ink, riso print, sketchbook, math, pixel, isometric — and the eighth slot: any other look, made from your references. The skill walks you through a few questions, then makes you approve three cheap things before it spends time animating: A style is a plug-in: the story grammar, timing, sound, renderer and tools stay the same; the style supplies the drawing kit. A piece picks one in its piece.json ("style": "riso"). Your own look: give the skill references (a video, stills, a web page) and it…
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Inside the original README — Document outline
- Animate — procedural animation in any style, for Claude Code
- How it works
- Styles
- What's baked in
- Install
- Use
- The example
- License
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What this repository does
Procedural animation in any style for Claude Code: short single-file canvas videos with story, look and storyboard check-ins. 7 built-in styles or one matched from your references, your own music (beat-mapped), real product screenshots, every format from one piece.
Repository facts
- Owner
- cth9191
- Primary language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 182
- Forks
- 25
- Open issues + pull requests
- 1
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-04T00:05:25.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-05T20:31:48.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: animation, canvas, claude-code, claude-code-plugin, claude-code-skill, explainer-video, generative-art, motion-graphics, procedural-animation, storyboard
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