Turn a Product Photo into a Claymation Video Ad — workflow skill for animation & motion graphics
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Vertical 10-11 scene claymation ad from a product photo and an angle: GPT Image 2 keyframes, Gemini Omni Flash clips, ElevenLabs voice on fal.ai, ~$6-8.
- Type: Workflow · Animation & motion graphics
- Slug:
claymation-video-ad-from-product-photo - Status: live
- Publisher: mikefutia (community)
- Source: https://github.com/mikefutia/claymation-ads-claude-skill/tree/main/claymation-ads
- Works in: Claude Code
What it does
Give Claude a product image and the argument the ad should make; it writes the script, designs the clay characters and world, generates every keyframe, records the voiceover and animates the clips, then stitches the final vertical video with ffmpeg. Consistency comes from a style lock and one master per character attached to every image, a chain to the previous scene's still, and clips generated between pairs of stills; the real product photo rides every frame that shows the product. You approve five gates, and a typical 10-11 scene ad costs $6-8 and takes about 30 minutes. Needs a fal.ai key, ffmpeg and jq.
Use when
- Make a claymation video ad for a product
- Animate a stop-motion style character story around a real product photo
- Keep a clay character consistent across 10 scenes
- Approve the spend before AI clips are generated
Install
- Claude Code:
Download claymation-ads.zip, then in the Claude desktop app go to Customize → Skills → Add → Upload a skill and upload it. - Any agent, with the vargai CLI:
vargai install claymation-video-ad-from-product-photo
More animation & motion graphics skills
- Day in My Life: A 60–75 s hand-drawn ink film of your agent's day with you, built from local Claude Code history, scored for strings.
- p5 Paint Animation: Handwriting that writes itself, photos that paint themselves and clips repainted as living paintings, in p5.js code.
- Session Story: A 40–70 s watercolor film of a typical session with your agent, told in your real messages, with its own score.
- Remotion Markup: Write Remotion markup that animates well: timing, transitions, motion blur, effects, audio, fonts and 3D.
- Motion AI Kit: Write production-grade UI animation with Motion or CSS: best practices, docs search, springs, perf audits.
- Motion Design: Animate with intent: timing, easing, choreography and Disney principles for UI and motion graphics.
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), thenvargai loginand 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