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Animate
Animate is a Claude Code skill that creates procedural short animated videos in code.
Animate is a Claude Code skill that makes short animated videos entirely in code. It guides you through intake, story checks, style frames, and storyboards before building and exporting to MP4. It offers built-in styles like cut paper, crosshatch, riso print, sketchbook, math, pixel, and isometric, or lets you match new looks from your references. The tool includes a story grammar, a rendering kit, voice-over generation via ElevenLabs and faster-whisper, and music beat mapping. It is designed for developers using Claude Code who need explainers, histories, or short stories rendered deterministically frame by frame.
Animate at a glance
- Best for: Software engineer, Marketer
- Runs on: macOS, Windows, Linux, CLI
- Pricing: Free
- Released: October 2026
- Category: AI video tool
- Website: github.com/cth9191/animate
Key features
- Procedural animation in code
- Built-in style gallery
- Custom style matching from references
- Interactive story and look checks
- Voice-over timing with faster-whisper
- ElevenLabs voice integration
- Music beat mapping and scoring
- Headless browser and ffmpeg export to MP4
Use it for
- Create explainer videos
- Produce animated histories
- Animate short stories
- Incorporate real product screenshots into animations
Companions
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- gstack — Skill bundle for planning, review and shipping.
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