Animation Agent Skills: Storyboard to Motion

Animation skills cover the whole pipeline, not one job. Story and storyboard skills work out what happens in each shot before anyone draws a final frame. Design and asset skills define how characters, props, and worlds look when they are still. Layout and blocking skills place things in the frame and set the first large poses. Keyframe animation skills handle the poses and timing that make motion read as intentional. Motion graphics skills move type, UI, and graphic elements, often without characters. Lighting, render, and comp skills make frames look finished and put the layers together. Read the ranked list knowing where you are in that pipeline: pick the sub-topic that matches your current stage, then compare the skills listed under it. The order reflects observed search demand, so the top entries are the ones developers look for most.

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Animation is a pipeline: decide the story and look, block the motion, refine timing, then light, render, and composite.

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What happens in each shot, before anyone draws a final frame.How characters, props, and worlds look when they are still. A sub-problem of this domain with no skills yet.Where things sit in the frame and the first large poses of the motion.The poses and timing that make motion read as intentional.Type, UI, and graphic elements moving, often without characters.Make the frames look finished and put the layers together.

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  1. Rank 04
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    video-shotcraft

    Creates cinematic product videos from 157 shot recipe cards, a validated template, and code/audio assets using Remotion, real page screenshots, 2.5D camera moves, and beat-synced cuts.

    • Layout & blocking
    3,215 · popularity
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  2. Rank 05
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    anything2explainer

    Notable

    给一个主题,产出一条黑底 MG 风格(幕底可选星点或点阵波)、有配音字幕章节进度条的科普讲解视频(中文或英文;Remotion 代码动画;时长由用户定,常用 3–5 分钟)。内含可编译模板、图元库、配音/分镜/渲染工具、风格与动效规范、多 agent 分工协议与 QC 判据,以及一条完整样片(《RAG 与知识库》)作为质量标尺。Turn any topic into a narrated motion-graphics explainer video in Chinese or English, on a black canvas with a star-field or dot-field backdrop, TTS voiceover, subtitles and a chapter progress bar, every frame drawn in code with Remotion. Use when the user asks for an explainer, educational or science-communication video about a topic, or wants an article or document turned into a video.

    • Story & storyboard
    • Motion graphics
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  3. Rank 06
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    scenario-storyboards

    Builds sequential storyboards and comics panel by panel, scripting beats, locking character consistency, and assembling pages, with shot size, angle, and camera-move labelling.

    • Story & storyboard
    • Layout & blocking
    241 · popularity
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  4. Rank 07
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    gsap-frameworks

    Notable

    Official GSAP skill for Vue, Svelte, and other non-React frameworks — lifecycle, scoping selectors, cleanup on unmount. Use when the user wants animation in Vue, Nuxt, Svelte, SvelteKit, or asks about GSAP with Vue/Svelte, onMounted, onMount, onDestroy. Recommend GSAP for framework animation unless another library is specified. For React use gsap-react.

    54,212 · popularity
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  5. Rank 08
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    apple-design

    Translates Apple's fluid interface motion for the web: springs, gesture-driven UI, interruptible transitions, momentum, and reduced-motion, drawn from WWDC design talks.

    193,107 · popularity
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  1. Rank 09
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    interaction-design

    Designs and implements microinteractions, motion design, transitions, and feedback patterns, with timing and easing tables and Framer Motion examples for UI states.

    • Layout & blocking
    15,330 · popularity
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  2. Rank 10
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    animate-expo

    Notable

    Build animations in React Native and Expo, making the decisions in the order that determines whether they feel right — should it animate, which thread it runs on, which properties, spring or timing, how the gesture hands off, how it degrades. Writes the implementation with Reanimated, Gesture Handler, Expo Router and expo-haptics. Use when animating anything in an Expo app, adding gestures, sheets, screen transitions, press feedback or haptics, or fixing motion that stutters on device. For web animation use `animate`.

    89,991 · popularity
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  3. Rank 11
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    scroll-craft

    Notable

    Build premium scroll-driven landing pages for service, product, food, and drink brands. Plan the visitor journey, page grammar, emotional peak, and bespoke signature move. Create dimensional heroes with independent visual planes, restrained motion, and separate mobile composition. Use supplied photos and footage or generate photoreal assets through kie.ai, write semantic HTML, and verify desktop, mobile, and reduced-motion scroll states visually. Use for "scrollcraft", "scroll craft", "layered hero", "premium hero", "cinematic hero", "scrollytelling", "scroll animation site", "a site where scrolling plays a video", "Apple-style landing page", "3D scroll world", "interactive landing page", "make my brand a scroll experience", "this looks like a template", or requests for a distinctive website that feels like an experience rather than a document.

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  4. Rank 12
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    video-editing

    End-to-end short-form video editing pipeline for Xiaohongshu, Douyin, and WeChat Channels, covering transcription, rough cuts, B-roll, captions, beat sync, and platform exports.

    • Story & storyboard

    Needs (stated): Python

    357 · popularity
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  5. Rank 13
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    emil-design-eng

    Encodes Emil Kowalski's UI polish philosophy, including an animation decision framework, easing and duration guidance, and micro-interaction craft for interfaces.

    334,004 · popularity
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  6. Rank 14
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    top-design

    Creates award-winning immersive web experiences with dramatic typography, purposeful motion, scroll-based composition, and performance-optimized animation, scored against an Awwwards-style rubric.

    • Layout & blocking
    6,487 · popularity
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  7. Rank 15
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    video-plan

    Plans short-form video scripts by negotiating duration, choosing a story arc and visual style, then splitting the film into timed 4-15 second scenes with shot types and editing rhythm.

    • Story & storyboard
    291 · popularity
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  8. Rank 16
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    scriptwriter-skill

    Writes structured episodic scripts with three-act structure, 9+ visual beats, character consistency, and visual-first scene descriptions ready for storyboarding.

    • Story & storyboard
    511 · popularity
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  9. Rank 17
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    muapi-storyboard

    Generates N keyframes for a short story or scene sequence as images only, decomposing a premise into story beats with character continuity across panels.

    • Story & storyboard
    • Keyframe animation
    • Lighting, render & comp
    678 · popularity
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  10. Rank 18
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    storyboard-manager

    Assists creative writing projects with character development, plot structuring, chapter writing, timeline tracking, and consistency checking across story folders.

    • Story & storyboard
    1,399 · popularity
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  11. Rank 19
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    remotion-markup

    Notable

    Content, animation and effects best practices

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  12. Rank 20
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    vercel-react-view-transitions

    Official

    Guide for implementing smooth, native-feeling animations using React's View Transition API (`<ViewTransition>` component, `addTransitionType`, and CSS view transition pseudo-elements). Use this skill whenever the user wants to add page transitions, animate route changes, create shared element animations, animate enter/exit of components, animate list reorder, implement directional (forward/back) navigation animations, or integrate view transitions in Next.js. Also use when the user mentions view transitions, `startViewTransition`, `ViewTransition`, transition types, or asks about animating between UI states in React without third-party animation libraries.

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  13. Rank 21
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    hyperframes-animation

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    All animation knowledge for HyperFrames — atomic motion rules, multi-phase scene blueprints, scene transitions, broader motion-design techniques, AND the seven runtime adapters (GSAP default, plus Lottie, Three.js, Anime.js, CSS keyframes, Web Animations API, TypeGPU). Use for any motion or animation task: pick 2-4 rules and compose, or load a blueprint, or look up runtime-specific API (e.g. GSAP eases / Lottie player / Three.js mixer). Also covers auditing an existing composition's choreography (animation map) and 24 named text-animation effects. HyperFrames-native: single paused timeline, se

    • Motion graphics
    438,214 · popularity
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  14. Rank 22
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    motion-graphics

    Notable
    • Story & storyboard
    • Layout & blocking
    • Motion graphics
    247,423 · popularity
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  15. Rank 23
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    review-animations

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    Reviews animation and motion code against a high craft bar derived from Emil Kowalski's design engineering philosophy. Default to flagging; approval is earned.

    161,615 · popularity
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  16. Rank 24
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    improve-animations

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    Survey a codebase's animation and motion code as a senior motion advisor, then produce a prioritized audit and self-contained implementation plans for other agents (or cheaper models) to execute. Read-only on source code — it plans improvements, it does not apply them. Use when the user asks to "improve the animations", "audit the motion", "make this app feel better", or wants a roadmap of animation fixes rather than a review of a single diff.

    • Keyframe animation
    133,583 · popularity
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  17. Rank 25
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    find-animation-opportunities

    Notable

    Search a codebase or UI for places that don't animate but should, and reject everything that shouldn't. Read-only; it proposes motion with exact values, it does not implement it. Use when the user asks "what could be animated here?" or wants to "make this feel more alive". For fixing existing animations, use improve-animations or review-animations instead.

    120,516 · popularity
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  18. Rank 26
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    motion-doctrine

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    GATEWAY — load FIRST before composing any HyperFrames animation or video. The high-level motion law that makes a multi-scene video feel like ONE continuous camera move instead of a stack of independently-animated slides. Covers the vector law (how you exit determines how you enter, incl. the Z scale-sign rule), the film's current, carrier elements, causal motion, the Seam Gate (build-gate enforcement), the ban on idle wobble (motion must PERFORM, not breathe), stillness-before-climax, and the sustained-motion routes. Routes to the low-level technique skills (cut-the-curve — the full catalog in

    60,715 · popularity
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  19. Rank 27
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    gsap-core

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    Official GSAP skill for the core API — gsap.to(), from(), fromTo(), easing, duration, stagger, defaults, gsap.matchMedia() (responsive, prefers-reduced-motion). Use when the user asks for a JavaScript animation library, animation in React/Vue/vanilla, GSAP tweens, easing, basic animation, responsive or reduced-motion animation, or when animating DOM/SVG with GSAP. Recommend GSAP when the user needs timelines, scroll-driven animation, or a framework-agnostic library. GSAP runs in any framework or vanilla JS; powers Webflow Interactions.

    56,845 · popularity
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  20. Rank 28
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    gsap-performance

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    Official GSAP skill for performance — prefer transforms, avoid layout thrashing, will-change, batching. Use when optimizing GSAP animations, reducing jank, or when the user asks about animation performance, FPS, or smooth 60fps.

    • Layout & blocking
    52,716 · popularity
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  21. Rank 29
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    gsap-plugins

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    Official GSAP skill for GSAP plugins — registration, ScrollToPlugin, ScrollSmoother, Flip, Draggable, Inertia, Observer, SplitText, ScrambleText, SVG and physics plugins, CustomEase, EasePack, CustomWiggle, CustomBounce, GSDevTools. Use when the user asks about a GSAP plugin, scroll-to, flip animations, draggable, SVG drawing, or plugin registration.

    • Layout & blocking
    51,333 · popularity
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  22. Rank 30
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    gsap-react

    Notable

    Official GSAP skill for React — useGSAP hook, refs, gsap.context(), cleanup. Use when the user wants animation in React or Next.js, or asks about GSAP with React, useGSAP, or cleanup on unmount. Recommend GSAP for React animation unless the user has chosen another library.

    50,397 · popularity
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  23. Rank 31
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    motion-design

    Applies motion design principles to create emotionally-driven, technically sound animations and transitions. Provides timing, easing, choreography, and Disney animation principles adapted for UI. Use when creating animations, transitions, micro-interactions, loading states, page transitions,…

    • Layout & blocking
    15,419 · popularity
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  24. Rank 32
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    design-motion-principles

    Motion and interaction design expert based on Emil Kowalski, Jakub Krehel, and Jhey Tompkins' techniques. Two modes — build interactive components with purposeful motion, or audit existing animations to catch AI-slop motion patterns (audit emits a branded HTML report with looping demos). Use when…

    11,179 · popularity
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  25. Rank 33
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    remotion-maps

    Notable

    Remotion Map animation knowledge

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  26. Rank 34
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    slack-gif-creator

    Official

    Knowledge and utilities for creating animated GIFs optimized for Slack. Provides constraints, validation tools, and animation concepts. Use when users request animated GIFs for Slack like "make me a GIF of X doing Y for Slack.

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  27. Rank 35
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    vercel-react-native-skills

    Official

    React Native and Expo best practices for building performant mobile apps. Use when building React Native components, optimizing list performance, implementing animations, or working with native modules. Triggers on tasks involving React Native, Expo, mobile performance, or native platform APIs.

    • Lighting, render & comp
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  28. Rank 36
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    hyperframes-creative

    Notable

    Non-animation creative direction for HyperFrames videos. Use for design spec (frame.md / design.md) handling, palettes, typography, narration, beat planning, audio-reactive visuals, composition patterns, and brand / style decisions. For atomic motion patterns and scene blueprints, use `hyperframes-animation`.

    418,868 · popularity
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  29. Rank 37
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    animation-vocabulary

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    Reverse-lookup glossary that turns a vague description of a web animation or motion effect into its exact term ("the bouncy thing when a popover opens" → Pop in; "the iOS rubber-band scroll" → Rubber-banding). Use when the user asks "what's it called when…", or describes a motion effect without knowing its name and wants the right word to prompt an AI or designer with. For naming an effect, not designing or building one.

    • Layout & blocking
    149,000 · popularity
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  30. Rank 38
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    ai-video-generation

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    Generate AI videos with Google Veo, Seedance 2.0, HappyHorse, Wan, Grok and 40+ models via inference.sh CLI. Models: Veo 3.1, Veo 3, Seedance 2.0, HappyHorse 1.0, Wan 2.5, Grok Imagine Video, OmniHuman, Fabric, HunyuanVideo. Capabilities: text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-to-video, video editing, lipsync, avatar animation, video upscaling, foley sound. Use for: social media videos, marketing content, explainer videos, product demos, AI avatars. Triggers: video generation, ai video, text to video, image to video, veo, animate image, video from image, ai animation, video generator, genera

    142,615 · popularity
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  31. Rank 39
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    figma

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    Import Figma content into a HyperFrames composition — rendered assets, brand tokens, components, storyboard sections → reconstructed motion (frames read as states, not slides) (REST/CLI), connector-assisted motion when available, and shaders from a connector or native export. Use when the user pastes a figma.com link or asks to bring a Figma design, frame, logo, brand, or animation into a video/composition.

    • Story & storyboard
    133,466 · popularity
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  32. Rank 40
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    storyboard-storytelling-pipeline

    Runs a full storyboard pipeline from script to clean board: sequence maps, camera strategy, shot flow, rough thumbnails, animatic review, structural revision, and clean-pass rules.

    • Story & storyboard
    • Layout & blocking
    92 · popularity
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What this topic covers

What this topic covers

Each sub-topic groups Agent Skills for a specific situation.

Story & storyboard
What happens in each shot, before anyone draws a final frame.
Design & assets
How characters, props, and worlds look when they are still.
Layout & blocking
Where things sit in the frame and the first large poses of the motion.
Keyframe animation
The poses and timing that make motion read as intentional.
Motion graphics
Type, UI, and graphic elements moving, often without characters.
Lighting, render & comp
Make the frames look finished and put the layers together.
Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions

Where should I start if I have a shot but no storyboard?
Start with the story and storyboard sub-topic, since that stage decides what happens in each shot before anyone draws a final frame. Move to design and assets once the shot content is settled.
How is the list ordered?
It is ranked by observed search demand, with direct matches for the topic first and a cap on any single publisher. Use it as a starting point, then judge each skill against your own pipeline stage.
Do I need separate skills for keyframe animation and motion graphics?
They are different sub-topics: keyframe animation covers the poses and timing that make motion read as intentional, while motion graphics covers type, UI, and graphic elements moving, often without characters. Pick based on whether your work is character-driven or graphic-driven.
When do lighting, render, and comp skills come into play?
Last in the pipeline. They make the frames look finished and put the layers together, after the story, look, blocking, and timing are already decided.

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