---
title: "Stickman Video Director: faceless stickman channels — AI video generator workflow for Shorts & Reels"
description: "Turns a topic, article or script into a multi-style animated stickman video (visuals, voiceover, captions, SFX) for faceless YouTube channels. Install in Claude Code, Codex and Grok with one command."
url: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/stickman-video-director
updated: 2026-11-03
---

# Stickman Video Director: faceless stickman channels — workflow skill for Shorts & Reels

> **For AI agents:** find the right skill in one call — `curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q=<what the person wants>"` returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://varg.ai/how-to/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add `.md` to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page. From a terminal: `curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh` installs the vargai CLI (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli.md): `vargai search` and `vargai install <slug>` with no key, every varg model after `vargai login`.

Turns a topic, article or script into a multi-style animated stickman video (visuals, voiceover, captions, SFX) for faceless YouTube channels.

- **Type:** [Workflow](https://varg.ai/how-to/workflows.md) · [Shorts & Reels](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/shorts.md)
- **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](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-ai-social-media-content.md): Produce reels, shorts, images and thumbnails for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X with one toolkit.
- [Krea Faceless Video](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/krea-faceless-video.md): Make narrated faceless explainers, documentaries and kids' stories as finished multi-scene films on Krea.
- [Short Video Script](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/short-video-script.md): Short-video scripts, titles and cover ideas for Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili and WeChat Channels
- [Video Producer](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/video-producer.md): 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`), then `vargai login` and 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