anidoodle

anidoodle is an Agent Skill open-sourced by Alex Greenshpun (GitHub user alexgreensh). The README sums it up as "hand-drawn art, written as code." You describe the picture, the shape and the length in a sentence, and it writes illustrations, loops, explainers, product launch films and web illustrations that react to the cursor as programs, then renders them with a browser and FFmpeg to PNG, MP4, GIF, transparent WebM, or a single HTML file that plays offline. There are 32 styles, from pencil and watercolour, charcoal and cyanotype to pixel art, toy bricks, woodcut ukiyo-e and sumi-e, and each one comes with a timelapse of the picture being drawn in the order an artist in that medium would work. The music is written in code as well: the README lists 21 music styles, every film gets its own harmony and melody, and a check script fails a score that sounds like a known piece. It can also borrow the style of an image you bring, redraw a photo as a scratchboard or woodblock print, or turn "how do I draw this?" into a step-by-step drawing lesson. What sets it apart is that every piece is deterministic code: the same source renders the same pixels and the same sound on any machine at any size, and changing one number shows you exactly what moves.

Who it's for:creators who want illustrations and animation for a website, explainers, a brand or a product launch, and want assets they can keep editing and re-exporting. You'll need to be comfortable with an AI coding tool that runs commands, such as Claude Code or Codex; readers who never touch a command line will find it hard going.

Before you start: the README gives plugin install commands for Claude Code, Codex and Grok Build, and any other tool that reads Skills can take a copy of the skills/anidoodle folder. You need Node 20 or later; the first render installs dependencies from npm and downloads Chromium through Playwright, and anything that moves also needs FFmpeg. An optional sound pack of real instruments is about 373 MB, downloaded from GitHub; SKILL.md says the agent must ask you first, and the download is checked by hash. The sound pack carries its own license file, and the optional Remotion backend is a separate project under its own terms. PRIVACY.md says anidoodle itself collects nothing and needs no account or API key, but the AI coding tool you run it in handles your prompts under its own privacy terms and pricing. Check that you have the rights to any reference images, photos of real people or brand assets you bring. Code and docs are licensed Apache-2.0.

Based on the project's public documentation. Not tested by AI Inspiration World.