anything2explainer

anything2explainer is Vincent Wei's skill for Claude Code and Codex that turns a topic, article or document into a black-canvas motion-graphics explainer video in Chinese or English. Every frame is drawn in code with Remotion (React and TypeScript): no stock footage and no generative video model. It ships a compilable Remotion template, a library of primitives and lighting, tools for voiceover, storyboarding, rendering and quality checks, written style and motion specs, and a complete reference film as the quality bar. How it works - Scaffolds the Remotion project from the template - Researches the topic, with a source URL for every number and analogy - Writes the narration, generates the voiceover and turns word timings into a frame-accurate timeline and subtitles - Storyboards every shot, builds a pilot for you to judge the look, then has parallel agents write one Remotion component per shot - Renders the film, measures the frames and reviews them against written criteria before delivery - Stops for you at four checkpoints: length and language, narration sign-off, voiceover, and the first 30 seconds What you get - A 1280×720 MP4 with voiceover, word-aligned subtitles, chapter cards and a chapter progress bar - The full paper trail: a research doc with sources, narration, storyboard, per-shot source and QC reports - Films of about 2 to 8 minutes. The maker puts a 3 to 5 minute film at roughly 2 hours, mostly agents building shots in parallel How to install it Clone github.com/Vincentwei1021/anything2explainer and link it into ~/.claude/skills (Claude Code) or ~/.codex/skills (Codex). You need Node 18 or later, ffmpeg and Python 3. Chinese voiceover defaults to edge-tts (a cloud call to a Microsoft endpoint) and English to kokoro-82m running locally. You can bring your own TTS or finished audio instead. Good to know - No GPU needed: Remotion renders on the CPU through headless Chromium. - Built and checked on macOS; Linux works, including a Raspberry Pi with system Chromium. Windows is untested. - Plan for 2 to 3 GB of disk per film. - Noncommercial use of the toolkit is free; commercial use needs the author's permission. The videos you make are yours.

• “Make me an explainer video about vector databases.”

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• “Turn this article into a 3-minute explainer in English.”

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• “Make a Chinese explainer video about RAG and knowledge bases.”

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• “Use the dot-field backdrop and make it 5 minutes long.”

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• “Use my own voiceover audio for the narration.”

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