GIF Cinema

Generate, review and retake short GIF shots, then assemble them into a short MP4 film via a public CLI.

Image & VideoAdvanced★ 463⑂ 51AI score 7/10Last updated: Nov 6, 2026

What it does

Turns your idea into a few short shots with a beginning, response and payoff, authored as a JSON script.
Drives the public gif-cinema CLI to generate GIF shots, extract last frames with endpoints, and chain them as references for the next shot.
Checks continuity across cuts (identity, costume/props, pose, scale, camera geography, lighting, action direction) and retakes a single shot with --force-shot while reusing accepted neighbors by hash.
Assembles approved GIFs into a final import-only montage and exports MP4, reporting native GIF frames separately from export FPS.
Supports zero-cost planning with --dry-run and source-only montages with --max-api-calls 0.

Who it's for

Creators experimenting with GPT-generated animated shots stitched into a short film.
People who want shot-level review, retakes and rollback instead of one-shot generation.
Users comfortable with the terminal, Python virtualenvs and FFmpeg.

Examples

Render the bundled three-shot astronaut example (assets/example/film.json) with --max-api-calls 0 to get a 7.68-second silent MP4 without any API key.
Extract shot 1's last frame and feed it into shot 2's references alongside a clean identity still to keep the character consistent.
When only the middle shot is wrong, copy the script, revise that shot, re-render with --force-shot, and judge it inside the full montage against both neighbors.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.

Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aiskillstore/marketplace/HEAD/pending/antropos17/gif-cinema/SKILL.md

What I want: (describe your task here)

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↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)

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In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.

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Install in Claude Code

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Install the skill I found on AI Skill Mart.
Copy the pending/antropos17/gif-cinema folder from the GitHub repo aiskillstore/marketplace into my ~/.claude/skills/gif-cinema/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/aiskillstore/marketplace.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r marketplace/pending/antropos17/gif-cinema ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

Clone the marketplace repo: git clone https://github.com/aiskillstore/marketplace.git
Copy the skill into Claude's skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r marketplace/pending/antropos17/gif-cinema ~/.claude/skills/
Verify prerequisites: Python 3.10+, Git, FFmpeg and ffprobe (python --version, ffmpeg -version, ffprobe -version).
Create and activate a virtual environment: python -m venv .venv, then your shell's activation command.
Install the pinned runtime: python -m pip install --upgrade pip "setuptools>=77" wheel, then the pip install --no-build-isolation "gif-cinema @ git+..." line from SKILL.md.
Confirm with python -m gif_cinema --help and run scripts/smoke_test.py --out NEW_DIR from the skill folder for a key-free smoke test.
For real generation, export your own OPENAI_API_KEY (billing applies); note the runtime's non-commercial evaluation license.
Restart Claude Code and ask something like "build a short film from GIF shots" to trigger the skill.

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