huashu-art-motion

huashu-art-motion teaches a coding agent to animate paintings in code. Ask for a Van Gogh clip and it paints the scene on a canvas, makes the brushstrokes move, and renders an MP4 through headless Chromium. It ships 36 art-style recipe cards with 35 ready scene files, plus 9 explainer grammars modeled on Kurzgesagt, Vox, 3Blue1Brown and whiteboard videos. MIT and free.

Install is one npx skills add line, but rendering needs uv, ffmpeg and Playwright Chromium. A QA script scores motion and smoothness, and the delivery script refuses to export a film that's basically a slideshow. Cloned voices bill your own ByteDance Volcengine account; macOS system voices cost nothing. Solo creators and small teams making explainer clips: free, plus your agent's usage. Studios doing client work: stick with After Effects or Remotion.

The catch: the skill itself is written in Chinese. SKILL.md and the recipe cards are Chinese: your agent reads them fine, you won't when a render breaks. The showcase also leans on characters nobody here owns (a Super Mario level, a Rick and Morty style, Anthropic's mascot), and the author's own character art is carved out of the MIT grant. Restyle before you publish anything commercial.