anime-style

anime-style is a skill for Claude Code from arjun988/blender-skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (506 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Blender art-direction guide for making anime and cel-shaded 3D characters and objects, using flat color areas, clear outlines, and simplified proportions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for anime-style characters and props, toon-shader experiments, and scenes with hard graphic shadows and clean silhouettes.
Why use it?
It helps keep models, lighting, and materials consistent with a graphic anime look instead of producing soft, realistic shading.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Part of the blender-skills plugin — 58 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for anime-style characters and props, toon-shader experiments, and scenes with hard graphic shadows and clean silhouettes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arjun988/blender-skills/anime-style
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add arjun988/blender-skills --skill anime-style
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arjun988/blender-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install blender-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 506 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00028 $0.00506
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00253
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00051

Measured 12d ago against content hash db0cd6332505, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anime-style scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/anime-style/SKILL.md · 75 lines

What it actually says

Anime Style

Hard color breaks. Clean silhouettes. Cel shading. Anime proportion language.

When to Use

  • Anime / cel-shaded characters and props
  • Toon shader lookdev
  • Hard shadow graphic looks (not soft PBR)

Core Tenets

  1. Flat tonal regions — 2–4 value steps max per material
  2. Hard shadow terminators — Specular as graphic shapes
  3. Line / silhouette clarity — Optional freestyle or inverted hull
  4. Proportion language — Eyes, hair masses, simplified anatomy
  5. Palette discipline — Limited hues; accent sparingly

Shading Approach

Method Use
Shader Toon / ColorRamp on diffuse Fast Eevee/Cycles toon
Emission + ramp Graphic unlit regions
Freestyle / grease pencil lines Contours
Solidify inverted hull Thick outlines

Modeling Notes

  • Simplify secondary forms; hair as masses
  • Creases where color breaks need support
  • Avoid noisy micro detail fighting flat shading

Lighting

  • Single clear key for graphic shadows
  • Rim optional for separation
  • Avoid heavy soft GI wash unless intentional

Vs stylized-style

  • stylized-style = broad NPR / hand-painted
  • anime-style = cel breaks, anime proportions, toon stack

Constraints

MUST DO

  • Limit value steps
  • Keep silhouette iconic
  • Test with toon lighting early

MUST NOT DO

  • Full PBR roughness noise as primary look
  • Over-subsurface that melts cel breaks

Reference Guide

Topic Reference Load When
Cel Shader Setup references/cel-shader-setup.md When needed
Anime Proportion references/anime-proportion.md When needed
Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 75 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A db0cd6332505

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anime-style is a skill published in the GitHub repository arjun988/blender-skills (182 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 506 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.