A starter kit for animating a hand-painted cartoon character with Claude Opus 5.5, built on p5.js and the p5.brush watercolor-brush library, with 31 preset emotion poses. The coding agent storyboards a scene, writes shot code, and renders an MP4 via a headless-Chrome Node.js renderer plus FFmpeg.
INSTALL CLAUDEANIMATIONBASE
git clone https://github.com/JohnHeibel/ClaudeAnimationBase.git
The README has no one-line installer. Clone the repo, then follow its README to install.
STACK
p5.jsp5.brushNode.jsFFmpeg
“A starter kit for animating hand-painted cartoons with Claude: p5.js + p5.brush, the Clawd character, 31 acted emotions and a guide for the model”
About Stories & animation
Animated tales, short dramas and cinematic scenes, from character design through shot lists to the final cut.