An agent skill for making launch and brand films that look directed, not AI-generated.

Agents can now write, voice, animate and render a whole video. Left to their defaults, they make the same film every time: a montage cut to a loud track, card grids, glowing gradients, text popping in, a feature tour with no story. This skill replaces those defaults with a process that grounds every decision in something real: your customers' pain, your brand's own assets, your narrator's delivery, the structure of your music.

• SKILL.md: the process as ten gates (inputs, pain, script, voice, world, hero, animatic, build, sound, QA), the standing rules, and the default banned list.
• references/: one guide per gate.
• templates/: brief, pain bank, script, design spec, shot list, cue sheet, and the loves and hates file.
• starter/: a HyperFrames project with a small film engine: one seekable timeline, a timing table the whole film reads from, actors that can move "on twos" like stop motion, cameras, word-timed captions and sound cues.
• scripts/: voiceover takes (Cartesia), take scoring, splitting voice only in real silences, joining music on downbeats, cue sheet checks, a banned-pattern linter, a pop and flash detector, contact sheets, rendering with a mix, and social exports.

It works for brands with or without a mascot. Without one, the film follows a hero object the brand already owns: the logo mark, a signature button, the cursor, a sound.

With the skills CLI:

npx skills add ferndesk/no-slop-motion

Or copy it by hand (Claude Code shown; other agents have their own skills folder):

git clone https://github.com/ferndesk/no-slop-motion
cp -r no-slop-motion/skills/no-slop-motion ~/.claude/skills/

It builds on HyperFrames, so install its skills too:

npx hyperframes skills

• Node 22+, ffmpeg, Google Chrome or the HyperFrames headless shell (npx hyperframes browser ensure)
• Python 3.10+ with the packages in scripts/audio/requirements.txt and scripts/render/requirements.txt
• A TTS key (CARTESIA_API_KEY) for the voice, and a music tool such as Suno or a licensed track

Ask your agent for a launch film:

Make a launch video for our product for X. Our site is acme.com, call transcripts are in ./calls, and I like the look of .

The skill starts at Gate 0 and asks for the inputs it cannot find. Expect to sign off a one-page brief, a script, a voice, five still frames and an animatic before the full build. Those locks are what make it fast: story and style take the most rounds, and far more when they are attempted at the same time as everything else.

MIT. The bundled fonts are under the SIL Open Font License (see their folders).