---
title: "anidoodle: art and animation written as code — AI video style for art styles"
description: "Illustrations, drawing time-lapses, loops, explainers, launch videos and scored films in 32 hand-made styles (ballpoint, chalkboard, charcoal erasure, risograph Install in Claude Code, Codex and Grok with one command."
url: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/anidoodle
updated: 2026-11-03
---

# anidoodle: art and animation written as code — style skill for art styles

> **For AI agents:** find the right skill in one call — `curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q=<what the person wants>"` returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://varg.ai/how-to/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add `.md` to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page. From a terminal: `curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh` installs the vargai CLI (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli.md): `vargai search` and `vargai install <slug>` with no key, every varg model after `vargai login`.

Illustrations, drawing time-lapses, loops, explainers, launch videos and scored films in 32 hand-made styles (ballpoint, chalkboard, charcoal erasure, risograph

- **Type:** [Style](https://varg.ai/how-to/styles.md) · [Art styles](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/art-direction.md)
- **Slug:** `anidoodle`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Alex Greenshpun (community)
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source:** https://github.com/alexgreensh/anidoodle
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex
- **Requires:** Node 20+, Chromium via playwright-core, ffmpeg for anything that moves
- **Adoption:** 1,230 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-11-02)

## What it does

Every mark is a function and every score is written, so the same source redraws the same picture at any size. Plugins for Claude Code, Codex and Grok.

## Use when

- drawing time-lapse reveals
- illustrated explainers and loops in a traditional-media look
- generative code-art loops

## Not for

- photoreal output

## Install

- Claude Code: `/plugin marketplace add alexgreensh/anidoodle && /plugin install anidoodle@alexgreensh-anidoodle`
- Codex: `codex plugin marketplace add alexgreensh/anidoodle`
- Any agent, with the vargai CLI: `vargai install anidoodle`

## Example output

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexgreensh/anidoodle/main/assets/readme/drawing.gif — A drawing being written as code (README) (credit: Alex Greenshpun (README), https://github.com/alexgreensh/anidoodle)

## More art styles skills

- [fal Game Dev](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fal-gamedev.md): Generate 2D pixel-art game assets: characters, sprite sheets, walk and attack cycles, parallax backgrounds.
- [Algorithmic Art](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/anthropic-algorithmic-art.md): Create original generative art in p5.js: write an algorithmic philosophy, then code it with seeded randomness.
- [Canvas Design](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/anthropic-canvas-design.md): Design posters and visual art as PNG or PDF from a written design philosophy, with 54 bundled fonts.
- [Brandprint by Refs](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/refs-brandprint.md): Give it a brand's X handle: it blueprints that brand's launch films and writes its house style as rules.
- [Lemo-Opuscar Film Styles](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/lemo-opuscar.md): 59 film styles made entirely in code (oil paint, watercolor, ukiyo-e, satellite briefing, exploded teardown).
- [Halftone Collage B-roll](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/gbro-collage-broll.md): Editorial halftone paper-collage B-roll from one line of script, with three approval gates before any video spend.

## Run the generation on varg

varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.

- Any agent with a terminal: `curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh` (Windows: `irm https://varg.ai/install.ps1 | iex`), then `vargai login` and every model is a command — `vargai generate_video …`, `vargai estimate_cost …` (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli/)
- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP)
- Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y`
- Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai`, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md
- Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp`
- API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt