Motion Canvas Skills by VideoZero — guide skill for tools & renderers
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Motion Canvas for agents: a full framework reference, an editor-control plugin for seek and screenshots, timing basics.
- Type: Guide · Tools & renderers
- Slug:
motion-canvas-videozero - Status: live
- Publisher: VideoZero (community)
- License: Apache-2.0
- Source: https://github.com/VideoZero/skills
- Works in: Claude Code
- Cost: Free, Apache-2.0: renders locally
- Adoption: 1,157 installs, 77 GitHub stars (skills.sh (3 skills summed), 2026-11-10)
What it does
Three skills for building videos with Motion Canvas, the TypeScript animation library behind many code explainers. motion-canvas is a framework reference (generators, signals, refs, layout, shapes, paths, text, LaTeX, media, camera, transitions, filters, gradients) with 18 topic docs; motion-canvas-agent adds a Vite plugin and client so the agent can seek, screenshot, inspect the scene graph, change settings and render a running editor; animation-basics covers the 12 principles of animation and timing. The catalog had no Motion Canvas card before this one.
Use when
- build or edit Motion Canvas scenes: shapes, text, LaTeX, layout, camera, transitions
- let the agent seek, screenshot and inspect a running Motion Canvas editor
- render a Motion Canvas project from an agent
- apply the 12 principles of animation to timing and easing
Not for
- Remotion or HyperFrames projects: use their own skills
- Live-action editing
Install
- Claude Code:
npx skills add videozero/skills - Any agent, with the vargai CLI:
vargai install motion-canvas-videozero
More tools & renderers skills
- varg AI: The official varg skill: videos, images, speech and music through one API key, rendered in the cloud or locally.
- Local-first video downloader: private, no subscription: Save any video by link (X, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, 1800+ sites) or Pinterest images as references, locally, no key.
- Templates Gallery Ops: Internal runbook for the varg app Templates gallery: publish renders, preview clips, frame-0 posters, shelves.
- Turn your agent skill into a varg how to listing: Publish your agent skill to varg how to in the one card format: checked, shown to you, sent for review.
- Keep a Video Project in GitHub: A private GitHub repo for your AI video, even if you never used git: saved versions, undo for anything, big files handled, keys kept out.
- HyperFrames CLI: Drive the HyperFrames CLI: scaffold, check, preview, snapshot, edit the timeline, render locally or in the cloud.