Video Illustrator
Turn the user's own voice and real assets (book or course covers, screenshots, logos) plus a chosen visual style into a 20–60 second cinematic promo or concept explainer, or turn a passage, article, idea or script into an animated illustration clip, or (explainer mode) make one passage of an existing narrated video visible as a mechanism insert in 16:9 and 9:16, or (episode mode) make a whole researched, narrated science or tech explainer with real footage. One system where every mode runs the same steps and picks its look from one style atlas (a bright 3D diagram by default for explainers and
Install
npx skills add axtonliu/video-illustrator --skill video-illustratorgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/axtonliu/video-illustrator.git /tmp/video-illustrator
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/video-illustrator/. ~/.claude/skills/video-illustratorPersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# Video Illustrator Make the idea visible over time. The deliverable is a watchable video and editable source, not merely a storyboard or a prompt for another tool. Main use: **the user's own voice** (a recording or their cloned voice) **+ their own real assets** (book cover, course cover, screenshots, logo, kept as they are) **+ one chosen style → a 20–60 second cinematic promo or concept explainer.** A plain passage-to-animation clip remains a valid, simpler use of the same workflow. Designed for Claude Code + Opus 5.5. Other hosts are unverified. Start from the user's words and supplied materials; choose an expressive visual treatment, author a scene, render it, inspect it, and return the result. A first-use setup may need Node.js, Chromium and FFmpeg; see [rendering](references/rendering.md). ## One system, three modes Every request runs the same five steps (below). The modes differ only in what comes in and how long the result is; the style atlas, the real-asset and brand rules, the output location, the checks and the render rules are shared. | Mode | Input → result | Adds | Skips | |---|---|---|---| | **Promo or illustration** (default) | the user's voice or a passage, real assets → a 20–60 s film or a short clip | the concept and its organizing device, scene density, for a cinematic piece the music-first audio order, contact sheet and aesthetic review | — |
Details
- Skill name
video-illustrator- Repository
- axtonliu/video-illustrator
- License
- MIT
- Repo updated
- 23 October 2026
FAQ
What does the Video Illustrator skill do?
Turn the user's own voice and real assets (book or course covers, screenshots, logos) plus a chosen visual style into a 20–60 second cinematic promo or concept explainer, or turn a passage, article, idea or script into an animated illustration clip, or (explainer mode) make one passage of an existing narrated video visible as a mechanism insert in 16:9 and 9:16, or (episode mode) make a whole researched, narrated science or tech explainer with real footage. One system where every mode runs the same steps and picks its look from one style atlas (a bright 3D diagram by default for explainers and
How do I install the Video Illustrator skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add axtonliu/video-illustrator --skill video-illustrator. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Video Illustrator popular?
It lives in axtonliu/video-illustrator, which has 42 GitHub stars and 5 forks.
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