Beta Version Toon Studio

Turn an idea, or your own script, into a vertical animated short with Claude Code.

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🎬 See it in action

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/59ee3c22-f378-485e-9ebf-55d67782fec2

_{Every clip above was made with the toon pipeline this kit comes from.}

Stills from shorts made with Toon Studio

📺 Watch the full walkthrough

Watch the Toon Studio walkthrough on YouTube

▶️ I Built a 3D Animation Studio Using Only Claude Code (FREE)

✨ What you get

📝 Script help

Give it one line and it writes a simple script, or paste yours and it uses it word for word.

🏙️ Ready-made 3D worlds

Streets, offices, a trading floor, a factory, a data centre, a shop, a rooftop, the sea and the desert.

🧑‍🎨 Drawn characters

Flat inked characters walk, talk, point and react, standing inside the 3D set.

💬 Word-timed captions

Bring a recording or any text-to-speech voice. Every caption lands on its word.

🎥 Camera and effects

Pushes, tracks, cranes and arcs, plus smoke, sparks, money and confetti.

📱 Ready to post

A 9:16 video at 30 fps, with sound effects, a music bed and a short caption.

🚀 Quick start

The easy way: install Claude Code, then paste this into it:

Set up github.com/ezpeezee/beta-version-toon-studio on my PC, and run its test.

It clones the repo, follows SETUP.md, checks your tools (and gives you the install command for anything missing), makes the Python environment, fills in your paths and renders a six-second test clip. With the tools already installed it takes about three minutes. On a fresh PC, expect about 1 GB of downloads first.

Prefer to set it up by hand? Click here.

1. Install Blender 5.2, Python 3.11+, ffmpeg and Claude Code
2. Copy skill/ to ~/.claude/skills/beta-version-toon-studio/
3. Copy kit/ to your project and rename it Reels
4. Open Claude Code in Reels and type:

   /beta-version-toon-studio a short video about why bread goes stale

Full steps, including the Python environment and paths, are in SETUP.md.

🛠️ How it works

flowchart LR
    A["💡 Idea or script"] --> B["🗣️ Voice"]
    B --> C["🎬 Shots"]
    C --> D["🖼️ Look stills"]
    D --> E["🎨 Blender render"]
    E --> F["📱 9:16 mp4"]

What happens at each step

Step	What happens
1. Script	It writes one from your idea, or uses yours.
2. Voice	Your recording is timed word by word. With no voice yet, it uses placeholder timings.
3. Shots	Claude writes `sets.py` (the world) and `story.py` (the shots).
4. Look	Quick stills come first, so problems are fixed before the full render.
5. Render	Blender renders frames in parallel, then the kit adds captions and joins the shots.
6. Sound	Sound effects and a music bed are mixed under the voice.

💻 Requirements


OS	Windows 10/11 with PowerShell
Software	Blender 5.2, Python 3.11+, ffmpeg, Claude Code
Hardware	An NVIDIA GPU is best; a CPU also works, more slowly

🧰 Also from Beta Version

Beta Version Blox Studio
The same idea-to-short kit with blocky 3D characters, a free text-to-speech voice and lip-sync.

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License

MIT: free to use, change and share. See LICENSE.md.
If you post something you made with it, a credit ("Made with Beta Version Toon Studio") would be nice, but it isn't required.

Credits

Showcase music: "Getting it Done" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0.