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Claude Code makes you a short cartoon — no AI video tools needed
This is a free Claude Code skill: give it a topic and the agent writes the story, builds the scene, and renders a short animated video on your own machine, no third-party AI video services.
An instruction file for the Claude Code coding agent that turns any topic into a finished 55–70 second animated video. Everything renders locally, with no online video generators.
When it helps
Good if you want a short story in this specific 2D-ink-character-on-a-3D-town style. Not a fit if you need a different look or a general-purpose video generator.
Pros
- Renders locally on your own machine — no GPU needed.
- No accounts or subscriptions for AI video services.
- You work straight from the Claude Code terminal, no browser.
- Code is MIT-licensed, free to use and modify.
Cons
- Only covers one visual style and one kind of story.
- Tested on a single sample short, about a bridge collapse.
- Rendering one video needs about 1.3 GB of temp disk space.
How to set it up — step by step
- 1Copy the skill folder to ~/.claude/skills/cartoon-3d-short in Claude Code.
- 2Install Node.js, Python 3, ffmpeg, and Remotion (the video-render tool) — see the project's README.
- 3Send the agent the text from the block below.
- 4Tell the agent your story topic when it asks.
- 5Check the finished 55–70 second video.
Text for your agent
Copy this and send it to your agent — Claude Code, Codex, any of them:
Install the cartoon-3d-short skill from https://github.com/mromidev/claude-animated-shorts into Claude Code: copy the folder to ~/.claude/skills/cartoon-3d-short, install Node.js, Python 3, ffmpeg and Remotion's dependencies per the README, ask me for a story idea, then tell the agent "use this skill to make a short animated story about …" and show me the resulting video.
Runs on a regular laptop — no GPU needed, but you'll need Node.js, Python 3 and ffmpeg, plus some free disk space for render temp files (about 1.3 GB per short).
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