Cartoon 3D Short by Mr omi — workflow skill for animation & motion graphics
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55–70 s vertical story shorts: flat cartoon characters in a painted 3D town, three.js in Remotion, no AI video model.
- Type: Workflow · Animation & motion graphics
- Slug:
cartoon-3d-short - Status: beta
- Publisher: Mr omi (community)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/mromidev/claude-animated-shorts
- Works in: Claude Code
- Requires: Remotion with @remotion/three, Node.js, Python 3, FFmpeg, A voice track (recorded or TTS) with word timings
- Cost: Free, MIT: renders locally; bring your own narration
- Adoption: 230 installs, 2,789 GitHub stars (GitHub + skills.sh, 2026-11-10)
What it does
Makes 55–70 s vertical animated story shorts in one look: flat bean-head cartoon characters with ink outlines in a colourful 3D world, lens blur, gliding cameras, narration, synthesized SFX and a march score, all rendered with three.js inside Remotion on your own machine. It carries the full source of its proven short, The Bridge That Fell for a Song (67 s, the 1831 Broughton bridge collapse), a style bible measured from 20 reference shorts, seven measured look reports, and QA helpers that compare your frames with the references. It is the free skill from the author's YouTube tutorial on viral animated shorts, and it fills the wanted card want-true-story-cartoon-short.
Use when
- a true-story or history short with cartoon characters in a 3D world
- a vertical animated explainer for TikTok, Reels or Shorts without a video model
- another short in the bridge video's cartoon 3D style
- three.js scenes rendered inside Remotion with a synthesized score
Not for
- Copying the reference channel's scripts, characters or shots: the skill forbids it
- Photoreal footage or AI video generation
- Horizontal long-form videos
Install
- Claude Code:
git clone https://github.com/mromidev/claude-animated-shorts.git ~/.claude/skills/cartoon-3d-short - Any agent, with the vargai CLI:
vargai install cartoon-3d-short
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Run the generation on varg
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