LydiaTools/paper-collage-workbuddy

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# Paper Collage Animation Skills [简体中文](README.zh-CN.md) · **English** **Turn a familiar frustration into a paper-collage video you can keep editing.** Turn a story into a paper collage video with WorkBuddy, and keep the editable project alongside the MP4. You've been busy all day. The one task that mattered is still sitting there. You finally find your train of thought. A notification arrives. Now you have to find it again. A short animation can make that moment visible: messages crowd the desk, progress slips back, and eventually the distractions leave enough room to finish one thing. These WorkBuddy and Codex workflows organize the steps from an idea to a paper collage animation: story, shots, separate visual pieces, movement, music, and a rendered video. They keep the editable project alongside the MP4, so the next change can start where you left off. | English sample | Chinese sample | | --- | --- | | ![English-captioned paper collage animation preview](media/preview-motion-en.gif) | ![Chinese-captioned paper collage animation preview](media/preview-motion.gif) | *Each preview is a silent six-second excerpt. The full 12-second examples include instrumental music; the storyboard and editable scene template are in the repository.* **[Watch or download the English sample](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LydiaTools/paper-collage-workbuddy/main/media/work-focus-12s-en.mp4)** · [Chinese sample](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LydiaTools/paper-collage-workbuddy/main/media/work-focus-12s.mp4) · [Download v0.1.2 preview](https://github.com/LydiaTools/paper-collage-workbuddy/releases/download/v0.1.2/paper-collage-workbuddy-v0.1.2.zip) · [Setup and first run](references/quickstart.en.md) · [English skill](SKILL.md) · [中文 Skill](SKILL.zh-CN.md) Adapted from **Alisa Qian's [Vox Director](https://github.com/Alisa0808/vox-director)**, with its story and visual methods retained and a WorkBuddy workflow, local layered animation, and music delivery added. [See the adaptation record](references/adaptation.en.md). ## Start with a story you recognize The included example asks: **Why did a whole busy day leave the important work unfinished?** | Story beat | What happens on screen | | --- | --- | | Busy all day, important work untouched | Task sheets, messages, and a clock surround the character. | | An interruption means starting again | A phone notification interrupts the action; progress resets. | | Finish the one thing that matters | Distractions leave, the character writes, and a check mark appears. | Three shots, four seconds each. Orange, deep teal, cream, and locally synthesized instrumental music. The English and Chinese caption files use the same scene timing and motion; see [`beats.en.json`](examples/work-focus-layered/beats.en.json) and [`beats.json`](examples/work-focus-layered/beats.json). Run that example first, then use its structure to understand how a sentence becomes a shot and a shot becomes movement. A new story needs its own assets and choreography. ## Keep your attention on what you want to say - **Edit words separately.** Titles remain text layers, so changing a sentence can leave the illustration intact. - **Give movement a purpose.** Characters and props move in sequence and settle when their action is done. - **Keep the voice you chose.** Use an existing narration track and mix generated instrumental music underneath it. - **Keep the work editable.** Save the MP4, HTML project, storyboard, assets, music, and run report together. The workflow suits small stories about everyday life, work, and practical habits. The selected agent's available model and image tools prepare the story, imagery, and motion project; the Python scripts validate plans, assemble prompts, render, and mix audio. ## Try it with WorkBuddy 1. Download the ZIP and rename the extracted folder to `paper-collage-workbuddy`. 2. WorkBuddy 5.9.3 on macOS shows **Experts · Skills · Connectors → Skills → Add Skill → Upload Skill**, with a folder or ZIP selector. This preview has not yet been tested through that importer; labels may vary by version and language. Alternatively, place the whole extracted folder in WorkBuddy's configured skills directory, with `SKILL.md` directly inside it. A common Windows location is `%USERPROFILE%\.workbuddy\skills`; check your application settings. 3. Follow the [English setup guide](references/quickstart.en.md) to inspect the plan and reproduce the included example. For a new topic, try this prompt: > Use paper-collage-workbuddy to make a short paper collage animation about "The workday ends, but the notifications don't." First write the story, shot list, and individual object movements in English. Use orange, deep teal, and cream. Let me review the script before preparing assets and the editable animation project. Then render an MP4 with instrumental music. Preserve any narration I supply, and include the storyboard, assets, music, and editable project in the delivery. If you want to explore before rendering: > Read the included example and explain how its three story beats become shots. Give me a storyboard table first. The WorkBuddy guides and production references are bilingual. Start with the [English WorkBuddy skill](SKILL.md), [English Codex skill](.agents/skills/paper-collage-animation/SKILL.md) · [中文说明](.agents/skills/paper-collage-animation/SKILL.zh-CN.md), [complete workflow](references/workbuddy-workflow.en.md), and [project fields](references/project-schema.en.md). The English sample is rendered from a checked-in English storyboard; WorkBuddy's end-to-end handling of an English prompt has not been separately verified. ## Install the agent skill The `paper-collage-animation` skill is published at the standard `.agents/skills/` path. Install it into a supported agent with the Skills CLI: ```bash npx skills add https://github.com/LydiaTools/paper-collage-workbuddy --skill paper-collage-animation ``` This installs the workflow instructions only. To create and render a video, clone the complete repository and open it in your agent so the skill can use the renderer, references, and example project: ```bash git clone https://github.com/LydiaTools/paper-collage-workbuddy.git ``` The same skill can guide Codex and other agents supported by the CLI. It requires the repository's local video dependencies; the skill file by itself does not contain the renderer. This Codex workflow is newly added and has not yet been verified in a fresh Codex session. The Skills CLI collects anonymous installation telemetry by default for its leaderboard. Set `DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1` to opt out; see the [CLI documentation](https://www.skills.sh/docs/cli). ## What you need Local rendering uses Python, Node, HyperFrames, GSAP, and FFmpeg. The Chinese sample needs a CJK font; the English sample uses a Latin system font. The [setup guide](references/quickstart.en.md) includes dependency versions and commands. This version does not require an Atlas Cloud API account and has no MiniMax or Veo integration. The repository includes one concrete 12-second project. For a new topic or aspect ratio, prepare the scenes and motion for that content before rendering. ## Credits Thank you to **Alisa Qian** for Vox Director's narrative arcs, beats/shots structure, visual prompt references, and style-composition code. Upstream baseline: `6a85a7c341610442a6a5b1885e6e0217ab82a11f`. Inherited files and hashes are recorded in [upstream-origin.json](references/upstream-origin.json). The original MIT notice is retained in [LICENSE.upstream](LICENSE.upstream); added code is covered by [LICENSE](LICENSE). The example character was generated with an image tool and arranged into separate parts. Its instrumental music was synthesized locally. Reference-video footage and audio are not included. If you try the workflow, [share the story you made or the step that got in your way](https://github.com/LydiaTools/paper-collage-workbuddy/issues).

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Turn an everyday story into an editable paper-collage animation with WorkBuddy, local rendering, and a final MP4.

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Create or revise a short, story-led paper-collage animation in the Paper Collage repository, keeping the editable project and rendered video together.

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