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Claude Animated Shorts
Claude Animated Shorts is a free Claude skill to create vertical animated story shorts using three.js and Remotion.
This open source GitHub repository provides a free Claude skill for creating 55 to 70 second vertical animated story shorts. It uses three.js inside Remotion to render 2D characters within a colourful 3D world, complete with ink outlines, lens blur, gliding cameras, and audio. The package includes the SKILL.md pipeline definition, templates for audio and the bridge short, Python and Node helper scripts, style references, and 38 reference frames. Users install the folder locally and prompt Claude Code to generate a short using the included rules. It runs on personal hardware and requires Node, Python 3, and ffmpeg.
Claude Animated Shorts at a glance
Key features
- Renders vertical animated shorts locally
- Combines 2D characters in a 3D world
- Applies ink outlines and lens blur
- Produces synthesized sound and audio mixes
- Includes frame-by-frame QA helpers
- Provides style references and contact sheets
Use it for
- Make viral animated story shorts
- Generate 3D worlds with Remotion
- Synthesize sound effects and background music
- Render local video projects
Companions
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