/anidoodle

name: anidoodle
description: Code-drawn stills, drawing timelapses, films, explainers and interactive web animations in 32 styles, with composed scores. Matches a reference style, keeps characters consistent, teaches drawing. Deterministic, no generated assets.
metadata:
  created_by: Alex Greenshpun (10x Company)
  license: Apache-2.0

anidoodle

Pictures, films and interactive pieces drawn entirely in code. One pure function paints every frame; another composes the score and plays it. The same source rebuilds the same pixels and the same sound on any machine, at any size, at any length. Eight acoustic instruments can play recordings of real ones from an optional download. ASK the user before any score work; never download unasked.

The engine is the easy half. Work gets thrown away because it had no point, because the subject was an icon of itself, because a style was only a palette swap, because the music had no form, or because the person spent their patience approving fragments. This skill carries the craft that prevents each of those.

Start by asking, then build

Read `references/workflows/start-here.md` and run its intake: one question at a time, only what the request leaves open, your recommendation first. **What** are they making, in **which style** (show the gallery sheet, https://github.com/alexgreensh/anidoodle/blob/main/skills/anidoodle/assets/styles.jpg; the list is `references/styles/INDEX.md`), what **shape** (1x1, 9x16, 16x9, 4x5 or any W x H), how **long** (any length; never cap it), what **sound** (silent or a music style and mood), which **characters**. "You pick" means pick and say why in one line. Write the answers into a short brief before drawing.

What are you making?

| Making | Read | |---|---| | A still: hero, spot, cover, card, poster, a series | Still workflow below, `references/formats.md` | | A picture that draws itself (timelapse, making-of) | `references/workflows/drawing-process.md` | | A loop, sticker, animated logo, ambient header | Loop workflow below, `references/formats.md` | | A story film, any length | Film workflow below, `references/workflows/long-film.md` | | An explainer or infographic; a machine that comes apart to explain an idea, in any style | `references/workflows/explainer.md`, `references/workflows/machines.md` | | A launch or product video (their screenshots welcome) | `references/workflows/launch-video.md`; build it on `references/workflows/launch-video-kit.md` | | Art for a site (hero by a headline, tiles, spots, share card) on its page colour and brand; or a web animation that reacts to the UI | `references/workflows/site-art.md`; `references/workflows/interactive.md` | | A drawing lesson, or "how do I draw this?" | `references/workflows/teach-drawing.md` | | A character kept identical in any style (woodcut to toy brick) | `references/workflows/character-consistency.md`, `references/anatomy.md` | | A style matched from their image | `references/workflows/adapt-a-style.md` | | A score or soundtrack | `references/music/README.md` |

• Music: pick a style vocabulary and mood, sketch the tension arc and motif, compose your own harmony, motif and form (references/music/compose.md, craft in references/music/theory/), revise until node tools/music.mjs craft shows only findings you chose, then check must PASS before a human listens. Styles give sound, never notes.
• Sound effects: references/music/sound-design.md. 14 layered, seeded effects cued by film frame (filmSfx); the score ducks, and every cue must be within 6 dB of it. Effects only on real direction changes, one riser + one impact per film.
• Launch films: `launchTemplate.ts` renders a product's launch from data (prompts, plates or its own UI, a score composed for it, words, install lines) in every shape from one timeline; `launch.mjs new|ship`. Habits that save tokens: `references/working-method.md`.

The seven laws

1. **Every piece has a point.** A still: one idea, one focal subject, one light. A film: one transformation, one payoff, one token that returns. → `references/storytelling.md` 2. **State the realism.** Name the anatomy, the view and the reference you opened, for animals, objects and people alike. → `references/realism-and-craft.md`, `references/anatomy.md` 3. **A style is a way of making marks.** Change the medium, the edge and the order of the marks, beyond the palette. → `references/styles.md` 4. **Prove the look on ONE still, then build end to end.** After that, gates cost more than they save. → `references/working-method.md` 5. **The contract is absolute.** Pure in `(frame, env)` (and the input log, for interactive pieces), `rng(seed)` only, no clock, no `ctx.filter`. Nothing generated; images they bring may be embedded by hash, and the sound pack is a separate, hash-pinned download. → `references/determinism-and-contract.md` 6. **Music gets a plan, never an adjective.** A style, a mood per section, the notes as data, then measurements. You cannot hear it, so one human listens before it ships. → `references/music/` 7. **One directs, one builds, both write everything down.** When a session degrades, reset; the files are the memory. → `references/working-method.md`

Workflows

**Still.** (1) Say the idea in one sentence; name the focal subject and the light. (2) Open real reference for anything that exists, and note which. (3) Pick the style and read its plate's header first. (4) Draw in that medium's order. (5) Render with `still.mjs` at full size, run the **detail pass** on crops (faces, hands, feet, joins; `references/craft-bar.md`), critique in writing. ✋ **One approval.** (6) Deliver every size and shape asked for from the same source, and say `reproducible` was printed.

**Loop.** As a still, plus: every motion is periodic over the loop, the subject never stops, something moves every second. Check the seam (last frame against frame 0). ✋ **One approval, on the moving file.**

**Film.** (1) **The story in three sen