Stickman Video Director: faceless stickman channels — workflow skill for Shorts & Reels
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Turns a topic, article or script into a multi-style animated stickman video (visuals, voiceover, captions, SFX) for faceless YouTube channels.
- Type: Workflow · Shorts & Reels
- Slug:
stickman-video-director - Status: live
- Publisher: kaomei (community)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/kaomei/stickman-video-director
- Works in: Claude Code, Codex
- Requires: an image generation tool (optional; text pack still delivered without), TTS for voiceover
- Adoption: 3,864 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-11-02)
What it does
Continually updated styles for science explainers, dark psychology, tech parables, lore and storytelling: classic black-and-white, modern pop, prehistoric cave, cozy storytelling, historical cartoon, minimal hand-drawn, amber noir and more. Director Mode writes scene-by-scene video prompts; other modes make the full video. README in 8 languages.
Use when
- faceless YouTube explainers and story channels
- long-form 5-10 minute narrated stickman videos
- a series with one recurring stick character
Not for
- photoreal or live-action content
Install
- Claude Code:
npx skills add kaomei/stickman-video-director - Codex:
npx skills add kaomei/stickman-video-director - Any agent, with the vargai CLI:
vargai install stickman-video-director
Models it drives: nano_banana_2_1, kling_v4
Example output
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/kaomei/stickman-video-director@2697fac5e0466f44098148a52c9648697521b3d6/assets/readme/previews/style-2a-demo.gif — A stickman explainer the skill directed (README) (credit: kaomei (README), https://github.com/kaomei/stickman-video-director)
More Shorts & Reels skills
- AI Social Media Content: Produce reels, shorts, images and thumbnails for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X with one toolkit.
- Krea Faceless Video: Make narrated faceless explainers, documentaries and kids' stories as finished multi-scene films on Krea.
- Short Video Script: Short-video scripts, titles and cover ideas for Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili and WeChat Channels
- Video Producer: Topic in, narrated short MP4 out: shot plan, AI stills, per-scene voiceover, Remotion render
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