Teardown by Elvar — workflow skill for 3D scenes
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One reference picture in, a 3D machine you can take apart out: three.js simulator, live gauges, 60 fps film.
- Type: Workflow · 3D scenes
- Slug:
elvar-teardown - Status: beta
- Publisher: Elvar (community)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/elvarofficial/teardown
- Works in: Claude Code
- Requires: Node.js 20+, Playwright Chromium, ffmpeg (video), Python 3 (sound)
- Cost: Free, MIT: renders locally; you pay only your Claude plan
- Runtime: an evening per machine; the author built 7 in 2 days
What it does
A Claude Code skill that builds a real machine (an engine, a landing gear, a walking linkage, a robot) as one offline HTML page: the machine runs in the middle, every gauge and chart reads the same model that poses the parts, a button opens each subsystem, and when nobody touches it the page tours itself. The same code records the tour frame by frame to a 60 fps MP4 with a procedural score mastered to -14 LUFS. Its rules: start from one reference picture, write the model as math from real numbers first, drive everything from one input, review stills before any video. Ships 3 machines (a V8, a Cessna 337 landing gear, a Strandbeest). The launch post on X (Oct 30, 2026) drew 3,485 likes, 3,917 bookmarks and 255k views, and its how-to article 665k views; 302 GitHub stars in its first day.
Use when
- a visual explainer of how a machine or mechanism works
- an exploded view, cutaway or teardown of an object
- an interactive 3D lesson people can take apart in the browser
- a 3D product or robot sim recorded to video
Not for
- Organic characters or faces: it is built for mechanisms with moving parts
- Machines with no reference picture: invented ones come out generic, the author says
Install
- Claude Code:
npx skills add elvarofficial/teardown -g -a claude-code && cd ~/.claude/skills/teardown && npm install && npx playwright install chromium - Any agent, with the vargai CLI:
vargai install elvar-teardown
Models it drives: claude_opus_5_5
Example output
https://s3.varg.ai/files/4325c578-378d-4c43-ae53-3cc3218df1ea/file_7f71a044d428.mp4 — The Telson SC-8 robotic scorpion from the repo README: claws open, tail strikes, panels read the pose. The full 5.5 s loop, GIF re-encoded to MP4. (credit: Elvar (teardown README), https://github.com/elvarofficial/teardown#readme)
More 3D scenes skills
- Three.js Skills: 13 Three.js skills: scenes, geometry, materials, lighting, GLSL and TSL shaders, animation, post-processing, R3F.
- Three.js Scene Composition: Plan, build and capture Three.js scenes for video: absolute-time frames, seeded motion, color-safe glTF, render QA.
- R3F Skills: 11 React Three Fiber skills checked against Fiber 9.7 and three r185: Canvas, demand loops, loaders, shaders, post.
- Procedural 3D Story: Turn a myth or book into a seeded, multi-chapter procedural three.js film in one scene.html, audited frame by frame.
- Three.js Architecture Effects: Self-assembling 3D buildings in three.js: bricks, timber, eaves and PBR, driven by one seekable progress value.
- img2threejs by Nick (Hoài Nhớ): Rebuilds the object in one reference image as a code-only, animation-ready Three.js model, gated pass by pass.
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