What you can do with Animate

4 use cases

• Make a short explainer video from a topic prompt

  Turn one sentence into a 45-second animated explainer in a built-in style, after approving story and look checks.

  • Animate
  • Claude Code
  • Content
  • Intermediate
  View prompt

  Using the animate skill in cth9191/animate, make a 45-second explainer video about <topic> in the math style. Expect a finished MP4 in pieces/<piece-name>/ after the story, look, and storyboard approvals, and verify that the review step reports no cut-off or overlapping text.

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• Cut a product launch reel to your song in every format

  Animate a product site's real screens with your own track and export it for vertical, square, and wide feeds.

  • Animate
  • Claude Code
  • Content
  • Intermediate
  View prompt

  Using the animate skill in cth9191/animate, build a 20-second launch reel for <product-url> cut to <track-path>. Expect MP4 files for 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9 in the piece folder, and verify that the review report shows the cuts landing on the beat grid.

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• Match a custom animation look from your own references

  Give the skill a video, stills, or a web page and get a saved style that later pieces can reuse.

  • Animate
  • Claude Code
  • Content
  • Advanced
  View prompt

  Using the animate skill in cth9191/animate, measure the references in <reference-folder> and create a custom style from them. Expect a styles/<name>/ folder with a STYLE.md and a kit.js, and verify that compare.mjs output places a generated frame next to the reference.

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• Build a narrated explainer with a synced voice-over

  Write a script, get one voice take per line, and time the picture to the spoken words automatically.

  • Animate
  • Claude Code
  • Content
  • Advanced
  View prompt

  Using the animate skill in cth9191/animate, create a narrated 45-second explainer about <topic> with a voice-over. Expect voice.wav and voice.json in the piece folder and an exported MP4, and verify that the review reports narration pace and that every script line is timed to the picture.

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How to use Animate

1. Check you have what it needs: Claude Code; Node 18+; Playwright with Chromium.
2. Open cth9191/animate on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. Install the prerequisites: npm i -g playwright && npx playwright install chromium
4. Install the skill as a plugin: /plugin marketplace add cth9191/animate then /plugin install animate@animate
5. Start the skill with a prompt: /animate how a hash map works, in the math style
6. Approve the story check (the format and numbered beat table), then the look check (2 to 4 style frames), then the storyboard (thumbs up or down by panel number).

These steps come from our top use case, Make a short explainer video from a topic prompt, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

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About this repo

• Who it is forContent creators, educators, and product marketers who use Claude Code and want short explainer or launch videos without an animation tool.
• Why it is hot
• LanguageJavaScript
• Sourcegithub.com/cth9191/animate · Back to Hot repos

Requirements

• Claude Code
• Node 18+
• Playwright with Chromium
• ffmpeg on your PATH
• Python with faster-whisper and the ElevenLabs connector (only for voice-overs)

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