One skill that turns a topic, article or script into a stickman video in six cartoon styles. Director mode gives you a treatment, script and shot-by-shot prompts to make the clips yourself; Autopilot mode, in Claude Code or Codex, makes the pictures and voiceover, adds captions and sound effects, and renders a finished narrated video.
In short: One skill that turns a topic, article or script into a stickman video in six cartoon styles. Director mode gives you a treatment, script and shot-by-shot prompts to make the clips yourself; Autopilot mode, in Claude Code or Codex, makes the pictures and voiceover, adds captions and sound effects, and renders a finished narrated video. It is a free skill for people who use Claude Code or Codex and want help with ai video.
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| Agent / tool | Access / cost | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Paid Claude plan or API | claude.com/claude-code |
| Codex | ChatGPT plan or API | openai.com/codex |
| GitHub repo | Open source · ★ 3.2k | kaomei/stickman-video-director |
Image: from the GitHub README, shown with credit.
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Real videos made with this skill, credited to their creators. Hover to preview.
EXPLAINER0:30A 30-second sample of the Historical Cartoon style from Stickman Video Director: a round-headed samurai walks past a castle and down a lantern-lit street, then sits at a desk counting coins in a dead-pan office scene, the kind of history short the skill makes from a one-line brief.
git clone https://github.com/kaomei/stickman-video-director cp -r stickman-video-director/skills/directing-stickman-videos ~/.claude/skills/ Autopilot: export GEMINI_API_KEY=... (your own key) and install ffmpeg
Install command copied from the project README. Check the README for the latest version.
One skill that turns a topic, article or script into a stickman video in six cartoon styles. Director mode gives you a treatment, script and shot-by-shot prompts to make the clips yourself; Autopilot mode, in Claude Code or Codex, makes the pictures and voiceover, adds captions and sound effects, and renders a finished narrated video.
A single skill (directing-stickman-videos) with two ways to work. Director mode writes a treatment, a script and scene-by-scene prompts plus sound notes in one of six stickman styles; you generate the clips in a video…
Short excerpt from the README of kaomei/stickman-video-director. Read the full README on GitHub.
Written by us so you can reuse it. Replace each [bracket] with your details.
Autopilot spends credits on your own image and voice API key, so check the preview before the full render. A paid chat subscription does not include API credits. The repo is large (about 127 MB of preview GIFs), so copy only the skill folder if space matters. Music, voices and images from outside services keep their own licence terms.
One skill that turns a topic, article or script into a stickman video in six cartoon styles. Director mode gives you a treatment, script and shot-by-shot prompts to make the clips yourself; Autopilot mode, in Claude Code or Codex, makes the pictures and voiceover, adds captions and sound effects, and renders a finished narrated video.
It works with Claude Code and Codex. The code is on GitHub at kaomei/stickman-video-director.
Free & open source (MIT). Director mode needs only the skill. Autopilot needs ffmpeg, Node and your own Gemini API key; image and voice generation is billed by Google to your key.
Run the install command from the README: “git clone https://github.com/kaomei/stickman-video-director”. Check the README on GitHub for the latest version, then follow the steps on this page.
We read 10 instruction and code files in the repo and found no red flags. That is not a guarantee, so review anything that runs commands on your machine.
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