Wiggle - Logo Animation Skill for Claude Code

Create professional logo animations using Lottie JSON format. Transform static logos (PNG/SVG/JPG) into animated GIFs and MP4s with professionally-crafted motion patterns.

Overview

Wiggle is a Claude Code skill that enables you to:

• 🎬 Animate static logos with professional motion design patterns
• 📦 Generate Lottie JSON animations with automatic GIF/MP4 rendering
• ✨ Apply various animation effects: fade, bounce, pulse, rotate, wiggle, waveforms
• 🎨 Extract and animate multi-element logos (icon + text)
• 🔄 Create perfect loops with validation
• 🚀 Preview animations quickly before full rendering

Features

Core Capabilities

• Multiple Animation Patterns: Fade, bounce, scale pulse, rotation, wiggle, waveforms
• Multi-Element Support: Animate icon and text separately or together
• Format Support: Lottie JSON, GIF, MP4, PNG sequences
• Smart Asset Handling: Automatic validation and path resolution
• Preview Mode: Render only first N frames for quick iteration
• Loop Validation: Ensure seamless looping animations

New in Latest Version

• ✅ Automatic asset validation (checks for missing external files)
• ✅ Asset path resolution (relative to JSON file location)
• ✅ Output verification (detects blank/corrupted files)
• ✅ Preview mode - renders only first N frames for quick testing
• ✅ Test mode - small test render with confirmation prompt

Installation

1. Download this skill as a ZIP file
2. Add to Claude following the official skills guide
3. Start animating! Claude Code handles all dependencies automatically

That's it! No manual dependency installation needed - Claude Code manages the Python environment.

Quick Start

Basic Usage

Simply ask Claude to animate your logo:

Animate my logo with a bounce entrance effect

Then provide your logo file (PNG, SVG, or JPG).

Claude will:

• Analyze your logo structure
• Define appropriate motion philosophy
• Prepare optimized assets
• Create Lottie JSON animation
• Render preview and final outputs

Example Requests

"Create a pulsing animation for my logo"
"Make my logo wiggle when it appears"
"Add a professional fade-in effect to my brand logo"
"Create a waveform animation for my audio app logo"
"Animate my logo with a bounce entrance, then loop it"

Animation Patterns

Single-Element Patterns

• Fade + Gentle Scale: Corporate entrances (1.5s)
• Bounce Entrance: Energetic brands (1.2s)
• Scale Pulse: Idle states, CTAs (3s loop)
• Smooth Rotation: Loading, tech logos (10s loop)
• Wiggle/Jello: Playful notifications (0.8s)
• Vertical Waveform: Audio/speech brands (3s loop)

Multi-Element Coordination

• Simultaneous Entrance: Both elements appear together (cohesive brand)
• Staggered Entrance: Icon first, text follows (storytelling)

See SKILL.md for complete documentation and references/detailed_examples.md for code examples.

Typical Workflow

When you work with Claude using this skill:

1. Define Motion Philosophy (30s)
   └─ What personality? What emotion? What motion metaphor?

2. Analyze Logo Structure (30s)
   └─ Text? Multi-element? SVG or PNG?

3. Prepare Assets
   └─ Claude optimizes your logo automatically

4. Create Lottie JSON Animation
   └─ Uses external references for reliability

5. Validate & Preview
   └─ Quick preview render to verify concept

6. Full Render
   └─ Generate final GIF/MP4 outputs

Troubleshooting

Asset not found errors

• Assets must be in the same directory as the Lottie JSON file
• Claude validates assets before rendering

Blank or corrupted output

• Check asset validation messages
• Verify file sizes aren't too large

Want to iterate faster?

• Ask Claude to render a preview first (only first 60 frames)
• Use test mode for quick concept validation

See references/troubleshooting.md for comprehensive troubleshooting guide.

Documentation

• SKILL.md - Complete skill documentation and workflow
• references/detailed_examples.md - Full Lottie JSON code examples
• references/animation_theory.md - Motion design principles
• references/preset_library.md - Complete preset collection
• references/text_animation_guide.md - Text animation workflows
• references/troubleshooting.md - Comprehensive troubleshooting
• references/real-world-examples/ - Production animations from major brands

File Size Guidelines

Use Case	Lottie JSON	GIF	MP4	Image Assets
Email signature	20-50KB	500KB-1MB	200-500KB	<30KB each
Website hero	30-80KB	1-3MB	500KB-1.5MB	<50KB each
Social media	50-150KB	3-8MB	1-3MB	<80KB each
Splash screen	30-100KB	2-5MB	800KB-2MB	<60KB each

Examples

Check out references/real-world-examples/ for production animations from:

• Reddit - Playful elastic bounce
• Slack - Professional restrained pinch
• Medium - Gentle editorial fade
• Flickr - Camera shutter effect
• Discord - Character wink

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit pull requests or open issues for:

• New animation patterns
• Bug fixes
• Documentation improvements
• Additional helper scripts

License

See LICENSE.txt for details.

Credits

Created for use with Claude Code by Anthropic.

Part of the Anthropic Agent Skills collection.