anime-animation-production

anime-animation-production is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from calesthio/generative-media-skills. It costs 171 tokens per session (8,830 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A craft workflow for producing anime-style and other stylised 2D animation with generative image and video tools. It focuses on animation conventions such as flat colours, hard-edged shading, frame timing, and shot structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan shots, prompts, motion, and editing rhythm for anime, manga-style, cel-shaded, mecha, or retro 2D animation.
Why use it?
It helps preserve the movement, timing, and visual rules that make anime animation feel intentional, rather than applying only a surface-level style.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan shots, prompts, motion, and editing rhythm for anime, manga-style, cel-shaded, mecha, or retro 2D animation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/anime-animation-production
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 calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill anime-animation-production
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/calesthio/generative-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 171 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,830 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00171 $0.08830
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.04415
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.01766
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00883

Measured 13d ago against content hash b8e6f2807e5c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anime-animation-production 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 13d 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.

skills/production/content-formats/anime-animation-production/SKILL.md · 614 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 614 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Anime and stylized 2D animation production

Anime is not a preset. It is a set of production conventions born from hand-drawn cel animation under tight schedules: flat color, hard-edged shading, deliberately uneven frame timing, and a shot grammar that spends motion where it matters and freezes everywhere else. Generative tools can reproduce the surface of that look easily, and the grammar almost never by default. The value an agent adds is the grammar — knowing which convention a given genre and beat calls for, encoding it into prompts and shot plans, and reviewing output against the things that actually break the illusion.

This skill covers the craft as production knowledge. It is provider-independent. Any model named (Sora, Kling, Vidu, Wan, PixVerse, Midjourney, etc.) is an illustrative option, dated where its behavior is volatile — never the method itself.

Three labels used throughout

To keep evidence honest, claims here are tagged:

  • [Fact] — documented in provider docs, animation references, standards, or news of record, with a source and (for volatile items) a verification date.
  • [Convention] — a craft practice established in professional 2D/anime animation, independent of any tool.
  • [Heuristic] — a production rule of thumb for generative tools, empirical and model-dependent; verify against your actual model and re-test when models change.

Volatile facts in this document were verified on 2026-07-10. Model capabilities and platform policies change fast; re-verify before relying on any dated claim.


When to use / when not to use

Use this skill when the deliverable should read as anime or stylized 2D animation — cel-shaded characters, limited-animation feel, anime shot grammar — regardless of the underlying model.

Do not reach for this skill for photoreal or 3D-CG-realistic pieces, for Western cartoon styles (Disney full animation, Cartoon Network flat-vector, cutout/Flash), or for generic "illustrated" video that has no anime intent. Those are different craft traditions with different timing and shading logic; applying anime conventions to them produces an uncanny hybrid. If the user says "animated" without specifying anime, confirm the tradition before committing to this grammar.

Read the full file on GitHub · 614 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 13d ago First seen · 614 lines · 171 tokens per session scan A b8e6f2807e5c

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anime-animation-production is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (170 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 171 tokens to every session and 8,830 once invoked, about $0.0009 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.

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