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One Codex Skill turns your copy into a confirmed English voiceover, a visual-first director's plan, and six production-ready Gemini Omni Flash prompts.
Built for visual explainers, motivational stories, educational shorts, and fast-moving essays on YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube.
| Light theme | Dark theme |
|---|---|
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| White canvas · black figure | Black canvas · white figure |
Click either animated preview to open the full 10-second clip with sound. If this visual style sparks an idea, Star the repository—and help more creators discover the project.
A good idea can still become a flat animation: one character, one background, and ten seconds with nothing new to look at. Directing a full minute means shaping the hook, pacing the explanation, inventing relevant visual metaphors, moving the camera, connecting scenes, and protecting continuity across separate generations.
Stickman Video Director does that production thinking before you spend generation credits.
| Advantage | What it gives you |
|---|---|
| Stronger story architecture | Reworks raw material into a sharp opening, progressive explanation, and closing callback while preserving the central meaning. |
| A real approval checkpoint | Shows a readable six-scene director's proposal before producing final model prompts. Revise the story while changes are still cheap. |
| Dense, relevant motion | Plans three timed beats per clip, with visual metaphors, environment changes, camera movement, text moments, interactions, transitions, BGM, and SFX. |
| Production locks | Repeats character, line weight, palette, voice, dialogue, audio, transition, and negative constraints inside every standalone prompt. |
| Format-aware direction | Recomposes staging, camera paths, and text placement for 9:16, 16:9, or 1:1 instead of merely changing a ratio label. |
| Controlled visual contrast | Supports white-background/black-figure and black-background/white-figure systems, plus up to three saturated accent colors. |
| Source fidelity | Avoids inventing unsupported facts, statistics, quotations, or product claims. |
No API or MCP dependency is required. Install the Skill, invoke it, and work through the guided flow in conversation.
| Ratio | Best fit | Directional emphasis |
|---|---|---|
9:16 |
YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels | Vertical depth, bold central silhouettes, stacked reveals, mobile-safe text |
16:9 |
YouTube explainers, educational videos, visual essays | Wide staging, lateral camera travel, split-screen comparisons, generous negative space |
1:1 |
Social feeds, compact product stories | Strong center composition, radial motion, readable edge margins |
- Paste copy, notes, an article, or simply a topic.
- Choose
16:9,9:16, or1:1, then select the light or dark theme. - Approve a detailed director's proposal with the English VO, reference translation, visuals, camera, transitions, BGM, and SFX.
- Generate exactly six self-contained Gemini Omni Flash prompts after the current proposal is approved.
- Stitch the six approximately ten-second clips into one coherent, one-minute video.
Change the ratio, theme, narration, scene structure, palette, voice, or tone at any point. The Skill returns to the proposal stage and asks for approval again.
- A creator-ready English title, core message, hook, tone, palette, voice, and music direction
- Approximately 130–150 English words of narration for about one minute
- Six visually distinct storyboard scenes with a change every two to three seconds
- Exact English dialogue plus a reference translation
- Six standalone Gemini Omni Flash prompts with timed beats and negative constraints
- Matched endings and openings for cleaner transitions between clips
- BGM, sound-effect, continuity, and final stitching guidance
Example request
Use $directing-stickman-videos to turn this copy into a one-minute English stickman video:
Gravity bends space and time so strongly around a black hole that even light cannot escape.
The Skill first asks for the missing aspect ratio and theme. It then presents the six-scene director's proposal for confirmation before generating any final model prompt.
Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/kaomei/stickman-video-director.git
cd stickman-video-directorCopy the installable Skill folder into your Codex skills directory:
cp -R skills/directing-stickman-videos "${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}/skills/"Restart Codex so the Skill appears in the available-skills list. Then invoke it and paste your source:
$directing-stickman-videos
- Approval stays explicit. Phase B cannot begin until you approve the current proposal.
- Global changes trigger recomposition. A new ratio or theme rebuilds the direction instead of applying a mechanical text replacement.
- Prompts stay independent. Each prompt repeats the critical locks needed to generate its clip on its own.
- Meaning stays grounded. The Skill may strengthen structure and delivery, but it does not add unsupported claims.
- Audio can still vary. Independent video generations may produce slight voice or music differences. For maximum consistency, keep synchronized SFX from each clip and add one continuous external VO and BGM track during assembly.
skills/directing-stickman-videos/ Installable Skill
assets/readme/ README preview media
tests/ Behavioral scenarios and verification
docs/superpowers/specs/ Approved product designs
docs/superpowers/plans/ Implementation plans
Ideas, examples, prompt improvements, and real-world generation notes are welcome. Open an issue or submit a pull request with a focused change and enough context to reproduce the result.
If this Skill helps you turn one unfinished idea into a video you can actually publish, give the repository a star. It helps the project reach the next creator looking for the same workflow.
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