claude-animated-shorts README

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Claude Animated Shorts

The free Claude skill from the video "How to Make Viral Animated Shorts Using Claude (Full Workflow)".

It makes 55-70 s vertical animated story shorts: 2D characters in a colourful 3D world, with ink outlines, a painted town, lens blur, gliding cameras, a march score and sound effects. Everything is rendered with three.js inside Remotion on your own PC, with no AI video generator.

Proven on The Bridge That Fell for a Song, a 67 s short about the 1831 Broughton bridge.

What's inside

Path What it is
SKILL.md The skill: the full pipeline, every rule, every fix, and the final look values
templates/bridge/ The full source of the bridge short: world, characters, ink, lens blur, grade, story/camera
templates/audio/ The synthesized sound: SFX, march music, the mix with ducking and loudness
templates/scripts/ Stills, side-by-side sheets, shot merge and frame-by-frame QA helpers
references/STYLE_BIBLE.md The script and visual formula measured from 20 reference shorts
references/reports/ Seven measured reports: motion, depth, textures, characters, lighting, outlines, grade
references/frames/ 38 full-size reference frames (540x960) to compare your frames against
references/sheets/ 20 contact sheets, one per reference short, 60 frames each (1,200 frames)

Install

  1. Copy this folder to ~/.claude/skills/cartoon-3d-short/ (clone it there, or download the ZIP).
  2. You need Remotion with @remotion/three, plus Node, Python 3 and ffmpeg.
  3. In Claude Code, say: "Use the cartoon short skill and make a short about …".

Claude then follows SKILL.md: topic and facts, then script, then voice, then the shot plan in story.ts, then stills, then renders. Agents check your frames against the reports and the frames, and you get the final 2K render and sound mix.

Notes

License

The code and docs are MIT (see LICENSE). The reference frames are included for style study only.

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Claude-animated-shorts
What is this?A free Claude skill that makes 55-70 second vertical animated story shorts: 2D characters in a colourful 3D world, rendered with three.js inside Remotion on your own PC.
Is it a standalone app or something for Claude Code?It's a skill folder for Claude Code, not a standalone app. Claude follows SKILL.md step by step to build the short with Remotion.
What do I need installed first?Remotion with @remotion/three, plus Node, Python 3 and ffmpeg. You also need Claude Code to run the skill.
Any gotchas with disk space?Yes. Each Remotion bundle copies public/ (about 1.3 GB) into the temp folder, so set REMOTIONTMP to a folder on a big drive.
Can I use the output freely?The code and docs are MIT, but the reference frames are only for style study, not for reuse.
What is the visual style made of?2D characters with ink outlines placed in a colourful 3D world, plus a painted town, lens blur, gliding cameras, a march score and sound effects.
Has it been tested on a finished short?Yes. It was proven on 'The Bridge That Fell for a Song', a 67 s short about the 1831 Broughton bridge.
How is the look checked against references?Agents compare your frames against seven measured reports and 38 full-size reference frames before you get the final 2K render and sound mix.
What are similar projects?motion-video-kit, onetake, lemo-opuscar, openfilm, saas-motion-kit, pdoom-video, riso-windowseat, huashu-motion
Which topics is it in?video-production, 2d, motion-graphics, claude-skill, video-editing, threejs, music, agent-skill, ffmpeg, 3d, audio, animation
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mromidev
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