AI Cartoon Studio — a Claude Code skill

Turn one idea into a finished vertical (9:16) cartoon episode and a matching social carousel — script → keyframe stills → cloned-voice animation → assembled movie (captions, subtitles, comic SFX, music, cover) → 6-slide carousel → per-platform packaged folders ready to post to TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.

It's a Claude Code skill: you say "make an episode about saving the bees," it runs the whole pipeline with human approval gates at the cheap steps.

Stack

• Higgsfield (MCP) — keyframe stills (nano_banana_pro) + talking animation (wan2_7, lip-sync to your own voice track)
• ElevenLabs — a consistent cloned character voice
• ffmpeg + Python Pillow — all local, free editing/text/assembly

Install

1. Copy the skill/ folder into your project as .claude/skills/cartoon-studio/.
2. Fill in every <PLACEHOLDER> (see the CONFIG table in ALL-IN-ONE.md) with your own brand, character, cloned-voice id, and character reference image ids. This includes the <TIKTOK_HASHTAGS> / <INSTAGRAM_HASHTAGS> / <YOUTUBE_HASHTAGS> / <WEBSITE> constants near the top of skill/scripts/make_deliverables.py.
3. Put ELEVENLABS_API_KEY (and optional FAL_KEY) in a gitignored .env.
4. In Claude Code: "Use cartoon-studio to make an episode about <your idea>."

What's here

• skill/SKILL.md — the runbook (7 steps + a Lip-Sync QA pass)
• skill/references/ — script framework, voice API, model/style specs, exact ffmpeg recipe, captions + per-platform distribution
• skill/scripts/ — caption / SFX / cover / subtitle / slideshow generators, make_deliverables.py (per-platform packaging), and check_lipsync.py (lip-sync QA) (Pillow + ffmpeg)
• ALL-IN-ONE.md — everything above in one file, with the CONFIG placeholder table

Per-platform packaging

Step 7 runs make_deliverables.py, which builds a self-contained deliverables/ tree — open one folder, post everything:

• tiktok/{video,slides} (9:16) · instagram/{reel,carousel} (4:5) · youtube/short (16:9 thumbnail + title/description). Every folder gets its own format-correct cover and its own caption (the carousel caption differs from the video; the IG reel gets its own too).

Notes

• This is a template, not a turnkey app: you need your own Higgsfield + ElevenLabs accounts and keys, your own character art + cloned voice, and to fill the placeholders.
• Generalized from a working kids'-cartoon production pipeline, so the structure is battle-tested.
• Never commit API keys. Keep them in a gitignored .env.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.