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How to make a short explainer video from a topic prompt with Animate

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

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  • Content
  • Intermediate
  • 60 minutes
  • From the README
  • Claude Code

Who it is forA teacher, writer, or developer who needs a short explainer video on a concept and has Claude Code set up.

The problemMaking an animated explainer by hand in an editor takes hours of frame-by-frame work and specialist tools.

The outcomeA finished MP4 of the explainer in one of the built-in styles, with story, look, and storyboard approved along the way.

What you need first

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

Steps

  1. Install the prerequisites: npm i -g playwright && npx playwright install chromium
  2. Install the skill as a plugin: /plugin marketplace add cth9191/animate then /plugin install animate@animate
  3. Start the skill with a prompt: /animate how a hash map works, in the math style
  4. 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).
  5. Review the delivered video and its measured checks, and send notes for a revision run if needed.

Prompt for your agent

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.

Caveat. The skill needs Claude Code plus Node, Playwright, and ffmpeg installed locally, so it is a developer setup rather than a copy-and-paste tool.

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