# gnipbao/story-to-handdrawn-video

Agent skill: convert Chinese story copy or ordered images into a hand-drawn diary-comic animation (silent MP4 picture track).

Repository: https://github.com/gnipbao/story-to-handdrawn-video
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/story-to-handdrawn-video
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-08T09:31:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 56/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 35, longevity 3
- inputs: {"age_days": 43, "days_push": 25, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, young
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1605, forks 230 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:09.222758+00:00)

## What it is
A Remotion-based renderer plus distributable agent skill that converts Chinese story text or ordered images into 3:4 vertical hand-drawn diary-comic animations, outputting silent H.264 MP4 picture tracks. It offers 20 switchable hand-drawn styles, handwritten subtitles, progressive text-to-sketch-to-color reveal, and optional page-turn transitions, driven via natural language in agent runtimes like Codex or Claude Code.

## Use cases
- turn a Chinese story into a hand-drawn animation video
- convert ordered comic images into a flipbook-style MP4
- generate silent picture-track videos for later voiceover dubbing
- render vertical 3:4 storybook animations with handwritten subtitles
- preview story animations at low resolution before final render
- choose among multiple hand-drawn art styles for a story video

## When to choose
- you want to animate Chinese story copy or image sequences into hand-drawn videos
- you need a silent picture track for post-production dubbing
- you use an agent runtime (Codex, Claude Code, Kimi Code) and want natural-language-driven rendering
- you need multiple consistent hand-drawn visual styles

## When to avoid
- you need audio, music, or voiceover baked into the output
- you work with non-Chinese text without adaptation
- you need real-time or streaming video generation
- you cannot install Node.js 20+, Python 3.10+, FFmpeg, and Chrome

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, image-processing, agent-framework, llm-inference, animation, templating
- domain: artificial-intelligence, media
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: remotion, hand-drawn-animation, story-to-video, agent-skill, codex-skill, chinese-text, picture-book, silent-video, h264, diary-comic, ai-agents, video, natural-language-processing, automation, nodejs

## Member repositories
- gnipbao/story-to-handdrawn-video (main) score 56

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:09.222758+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:52:16.731983+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gnipbao/story-to-handdrawn-video (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:09.222758+00:00, sha 607fe4b178a7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.