What is image-to-motion?

A workflow that turns a still image into a motion graphic, meaning an animated version with planned movement, timing, and camera direction. It uses the Seedance 2.5 video model through the Novoads API.

Use it to animate interface designs, marketing images, product scenes, collages, characters, and other still artwork.

It helps convert a picture into animation while specifying which parts move, when they move, and which areas stay still. It also supports fitting the result to a requested shape without cropping the source image.

image-to-motion — Skill for Claude Code by novoads

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 novoads/agent-skills --skill image-to-motion

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/novoads/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/novoads/agent-skills/image-to-motion/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/novoads/agent-skills/image-to-motion)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/novoads/agent-skills/image-to-motion"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/novoads/agent-skills/image-to-motion/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/novoads/agent-skills/image-to-motion"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/novoads/agent-skills/image-to-motion.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 236 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 5,686 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 warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

high Anti-Refusal · line 114
Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
high Tool Misuse · line 260
Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).

Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
medium Data Exfiltration · line 38
Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00236	$0.05686
Opus 5	$0.00118	$0.02843
Sonnet 5	$0.00047	$0.01137
Haiku 4.5	$0.00024	$0.00569

Measured 9d ago against content hash 87fd11369872, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

image-to-motion 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 9d 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/image-to-motion/SKILL.md · 337 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 337 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Image → Motion Graphic

Any still can become a professional motion graphic. The work is direction, not damage control: decide what moves, in what order, and say it precisely enough that there is nothing left to interpret.

Vague prompts produce vague motion. Specific prompts produce the shot you pictured. That is the whole discipline.

Resolved, 2026-08-12 — seedance-2.5 takes a start image again, and the render honours the aspectRatio you ask for.

Earlier the same day, POST /v1/videos with "model": "seedance-2.5" and a startImageAssetId failed server-side every time (isolated with nine single-variable probes; credits were charged and refunded automatically). The platform fix shipped and was verified live 2026-08-12: the same call that failed now renders, and a source image whose shape differs from the requested aspectRatio is fitted to the ask server-side with content-safe padding — nothing is cropped away, and the output arrives at the ratio you requested. No workaround is needed; write the call as this skill documents it.

Before anything: this runs on a Novoads account

Base URL: https://api.novoads.ai/v1 (host overridable with NOVOADS_BASE_URL — host only, you append /v1).
Auth: Authorization: Bearer $NOVOADS_API_KEY, read from .env at the repo root. The key is novo_ plus 64 hex.
Check: ./scripts/check-novoads-env.sh; if the key is missing, run ./scripts/setup.sh.
Never print API keys, commit .env, or paste a key into MASTER_CONTEXT.md.

REST key required. A Novoads MCP connector is not a substitute. If NOVOADS_API_KEY is missing or still the placeholder, stop before any generation work and tell the user: "Before continuing, create an API key at https://novoads.ai/dashboard/settings?tab=api and paste it into .env." That holds even when mcp__novoads__* tools are connected and authenticated in the session. Never call mcp__novoads__* tools from this repo's workflows: they are a different surface with different behavior, including the units they quote costs in. Repo installs verify with ./scripts/check-novoads-env.sh; a solo install checks NOVOADS_API_KEY in the environment.

Read the full file on GitHub · 337 lines

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.

9d ago First seen · 337 lines · 236 tokens per session scan A 87fd11369872

Subscribe to this mod's changes

image-to-motion is a skill published in the GitHub repository novoads/agent-skills (14 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 236 tokens to every session and 5,686 once invoked, about $0.0012 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 2026-08-31.

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