Open-source AI Animated Comic and Short Drama Studio — workflow skill for animation & motion graphics
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Toonflow: self-hosted canvas for AI animated comics and short dramas, from script and storyboard to character assets and Seedance shots, with an MCP and skill.
- Type: Workflow · Animation & motion graphics
- Slug:
open-source-ai-comic-drama-studio - Status: live
- Publisher: HBAI-Ltd (community)
- Source: https://github.com/HBAI-Ltd/Toonflow-app
- Works in: Claude Code
What it does
Toonflow (MIT) puts scripts, storyboards, character and scene references, image generation and video generation on one infinite canvas, with a built-in agent, plugins and an MCP server whose bundled toonflow skill lets an external agent read the canvas, add nodes and start and track generations. It runs as a desktop app, Android app, Docker or Linux server and connects to third-party model APIs or a local ComfyUI. The README example, about 2 minutes made in about 2 hours, used Seedance 2.0, GPT Image 2 and Claude Opus 4.6 for roughly 130 CNY in model costs.
Use when
- Produce an AI animated comic (manju) or short drama series
- Organize scripts, characters, scenes and shots on one canvas
- Let Claude or another agent drive the canvas through MCP
- Self-host the pipeline with your own models or ComfyUI
Install
- Claude Code:
git clone https://github.com/HBAI-Ltd/Toonflow-app.git && cd Toonflow-app && docker compose up -d --build - Any agent, with the vargai CLI:
vargai install open-source-ai-comic-drama-studio
Example output
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2d9fddac-dfdf-4640-b030-b09d7f7287e9 — example (credit: HBAI-Ltd)
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