animate: single-file procedural videos with a storyboard

Try it in 60 seconds

npm i -g playwright && npx playwright install chromium
/plugin marketplace add cth9191/animate
/plugin install animate@animate

Install command copied from the project README. Check the README for the latest version.

What it does

Makes short canvas videos in any style, planning story, look and storyboard as it goes.

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.

Quoted from the README of cth9191/animate.

Inside the repo

Step by step

1. Open the GitHub repo and skim the README (install commands change often).
2. Install it: copy the skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/ (Claude Code) or ~/.codex/skills/ (Codex), or use the plugin/marketplace command from the README.
3. Restart Claude Code or Codex.
4. Ask for the job in plain words; the skill loads when your request matches.

Sources & credit

All credit to the original authors. We rewrite in our own words and link back. Something wrong? Report it.