✏️ New: hand-drawn animation — /ink-art & /animated-drawing

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Two ways to make hand-drawn animated videos

This release adds a full hand-drawn animation capability to OpenMontage — a character that sketches itself on screen and then walks, dances, and waves using real motion capture. There are two entry points depending on what you're starting from:

	/ink-art	/animated-drawing
Start from	nothing — an idea	a drawing/photo you already have
Look	black-ink-on-white vector doodle	your raster artwork, warped to move
Signature move	a line draws itself into a character, then performs	your doodle "comes to life"
Under the hood	Ink Theater engine (SVG + GSAP)	Meta's open-source AnimatedDrawings (auto-rig + mocap retarget)
Output	deterministic MP4 via HyperFrames	transparent GIF/WebM, composited into HyperFrames

Both are motion-first, deterministic, and free — no diffusion model, no per-frame hand-tuning.

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🎬 How to make one

From an idea → /ink-art:

/ink-art a pencil line draws itself into a character who realizes it's alive and dances about it — silent, comic speech balloons, music bed

The agent reads skills/creative/ink-theater.md, builds the scene with the Ink Theater engine, and — for a character that moves — uses the Ink Puppet system: the figure draws on limb-by-limb, then plays named mocap clips you pick by name:

InkPuppet.choreograph(tl, p, [{clip:'wave'}, {clip:'twist'}, {clip:'walk'}]);

There are 12 motion-capture clips in ink-theater/mocap/catalog.json — walk, run, climb, march, shuffle, jump, kick, sit, wave, twist, dance_spin, dance_glide. Pick moves that fit the beat; never loop one clip (that's what makes videos feel repetitive).

From your own drawing → /animated-drawing:

/animated-drawing my-doodle.png dance

Give it a drawn humanoid on a plain background (or let the agent generate/doodle-ify one for you) and it auto-rigs a skeleton, retargets a mocap clip, and hands back a transparent character you drop into a HyperFrames scene with a background, speech balloons, and music.

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ink-art

first-steps.mp4

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animated-drawing

anim-drawing-fridge_2026-07-01_20-48-39.mp4