Hand-painted character film

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Build a short hand-painted 2D character film using the pinned ClaudeAnimationBase starter as a separately installed reference. Use a mascot supplied by the user or a new original design; replace the bundled Clawd art and demo story. Start with STORYBOARD.md: a goal, an obstacle, a payoff, a small palette, timed actions and reactions, and transitions connecting the scenes. Wait for storyboard feedback before scene implementation. Add a new scene file and point studio.html to it. Make each frame deterministic from time, seed stable objects independently, and use anticipation, arcs, overlapping motion and holds so actions read clearly. Use local fonts and separately licensed assets. Review the renderer and dependency licenses before running it. Prefer a sandboxed Chrome process; run the upstream Linux no-sandbox route only in a disposable non-root environment without secrets or untrusted input. Render contact sheets, motion strips and contact-detail crops; inspect them before the final local MP4. Preserve John Heibel’s MIT notice and distinguish this adaptation from the full original guide.

Build and check.

1. Confirm the supplied content, target environment, and required assets before implementing.
2. Build a short hand-painted 2D character film using the pinned ClaudeAnimationBase starter as a separately installed reference. Use a mascot supplied by the user or a new original design; replace the bundled Clawd art and demo story. Start with STORYBOARD.md: a goal, an obstacle, a payoff, a small palette, timed actions and reactions, and transitions connecting the scenes. Wait for storyboard feedback before scene implementation. Add a new scene file and point studio.html to it. Make each frame deterministic from time, seed stable objects independently, and use anticipation, arcs, overlapping motion and holds so actions read clearly. Use local fonts and separately licensed assets. Review the renderer and dependency licenses before running it. Prefer a sandboxed Chrome process; run the upstream Linux no-sandbox route only in a disposable non-root environment without secrets or untrusted input. Render contact sheets, motion strips and contact-detail crops; inspect them before the final local MP4. Preserve John Heibel’s MIT notice and distinguish this adaptation from the full original guide.
3. Expose deterministic seek(t) and inspect opening, midpoint, final, mobile, and reduced-motion frames.
4. Inspect the opening, midpoint, and final state at desktop and mobile sizes; report any dependency or output limitation.

Know the limits.

• This recipe has not been reproduced or visually verified.
• Upstream renderer disables Chrome sandboxing on Linux; review and isolate that route.
• Watercolor fills can take seconds per frame on integrated or software graphics.
• The starter’s original characters, model sheets, font and media are not included.

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