Kids English Video by 小北AI — workflow skill for animation & motion graphics
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2–3 min English lessons for ages 3–6: sentence-pattern Q&A, word cards, repeat-after-me, all on one kids' beat.
- Type: Workflow · Animation & motion graphics
- Slug:
kids-english-video - Status: beta
- Publisher: 小北AI (community)
- License: unknown
- Source: https://github.com/lwmxiaobei/xiaobei-skills/tree/main/kids-english-video
- Works in: Claude Code
- Requires: macOS (zsh), Python 3 with uv, FFmpeg, Node.js and a logged-in Codex CLI (npx @openai/codex) for character images, Fish Audio API key (FISH_AUDIO_API_KEY or FISH_API_KEY)
- Cost: Free skill; voices bill your Fish Audio key, images your Codex (ChatGPT) plan
- Adoption: 1 installs, 68 GitHub stars (GitHub + skills.sh, 2026-11-10)
What it does
Makes 1920×1080 English starter episodes for children aged 3 to 6, two to three minutes each: one sentence pattern asked and answered over several rounds, word cards, lead-and-repeat lines, pauses for the child to answer, a twist and a goodbye, all on one beat (100 BPM by default) with mouth shapes driven by the voice's loudness. Five art styles (flat, crayon, paper cut-out, clay, watercolor) with four characters and five music choices (ukulele, music box, toy march, chiptune, none); frames are drawn in Canvas code and rendered by parallel headless Playwright, voices come from Fish Audio, and music and SFX are synthesized in Python and mixed to -16 LUFS. SKILL.md and README are in Chinese. The author's launch posts reached 26–28k views and 500+ bookmarks.
Use when
- a kids' English song or sentence-pattern video (Do you like…? / Can you…?)
- the next episode of a preschool English series with the same characters and style
- redo an episode in another art style or with other music
- 幼儿英语启蒙动画 / 少儿英语儿歌视频
Not for
- Windows or Linux without changes: the image script uses zsh and macOS paths
- Reusing the characters, art or code beyond trying it yourself: the repo has no licence
Install
- Claude Code:
git clone https://github.com/lwmxiaobei/xiaobei-skills.git && cp -R xiaobei-skills/kids-english-video ~/.claude/skills/kids-english-video - Any agent, with the vargai CLI:
vargai install kids-english-video
More animation & motion graphics skills
- Turn any still into a looping GIF: A still, mascot or prompt to a looping GIF on GPT Image 2.6: frame sizes that fit, loop wording, WebP export.
- Turn a character into a game sprite sheet: 2D game sprite sheets on GPT Image 2.6: a 4x4 spec that slices cleanly into frames, a GIF and a Phaser atlas.
- 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.
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