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Painted Animation

Make hand-painted watercolour-and-ink cartoon videos (MP4) with code — p5.js + p5.brush rendered frame by frame in headless Chrome, encoded with ff…

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By edenfunf/reelmimic, MIT licence. Shared here with credit.

Painted animation

A method for making short cartoons entirely in code, distilled from JohnHeibel/PDoomVideo (a 156 s music video painted by Claude Opus) and its generalised kit ClaudeAnimationBase (MIT), which is bundled here as template/.

How it works: every frame is a pure function of time t. studio.html loads p5.js + p5.brush and your scene files; each shot paints the whole 1920×1080 frame with watercolour fills and boiling ink lines. render.mjs drives headless Chrome to render contact sheets for review, or every frame in parallel, and ffmpeg encodes the MP4 (with audio if given).

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