_____ _____ .__ / \ _____ ___ / _ __ || ____ ____ / \ / \ \ \ / /\ \ | / / |/ _ \ /
/ Y / __ _> ) |
_| ( //_ \ || |//_ >|_/|__| / / / / / /

Collage B-roll Explainers

A Claude Code skill that turns a single spoken sentence into a premium editorial paper-collage explainer video — 9:16, 5 seconds, halftone cut-outs assembling piece by piece on a bold color field, optionally with a fitted voiceover.

You give it a line like "A snowball only needs the first push — the hill does the rest." It proposes a visual metaphor, waits for your approval, generates the finished still, waits again, then animates the whole scene assembling itself from an empty color field — and QAs its own output frame by frame.

Examples

Full-quality MP4s (with voiceover) are in examples/.

What the skill enforces

• Three-gate approval flow — metaphors first, stills second, video last. You approve at each gate; nothing burns generation cost on an unapproved idea.
• A locked visual language — flat bold paper fields, black-and-white halftone photographic cut-outs, colored cardstock accents, crisp cut edges, cream keylines, paper grain. Color semantics are part of the system (burnt orange = urgency, deep purple = rules, teal = judgment…).
• Assemble-from-empty motion — the clip opens on a pure empty color field and builds the scene piece by piece with stop-motion timing. First and last frames are prepared locally with ffmpeg and passed as tagged references, so the video lands exactly on the approved still.
• Self-QA — contact sheets, first-frame purity checks, end-frame comparisons, an anti-fake-lettering rule set, and a repair playbook for the failure modes that actually happen.
• Voiceover fitting (optional) — pick a voice from your library, generate the line, trim silence, fit it into a 4–5s window, and mux — video stream untouched.

Requirements

• Claude Code (or any agent