JohnHeibel/ClaudeAnimationBase
A starter kit for animating hand-painted cartoons with Claude: p5.js + p5.brush, the Clawd character, 31 acted emotions and a guide for the model
What it is
This is a small starter kit with code, instructions and assets for animating a character in p5.js and p5.brush with Claude Opus 5.5. It's based on the code from the music video I'm Upping My P(doom) and an analysis of what the model did and didn't do well. I highly recommend playing around with your prompting: make it give you the storyboard before coding, give it very broad instructions, try being very specific, ask for subagents, and try a bunch of other fun ways of testing the model's capabilities. In my testing, it can do a lot with very little, but it's also quite accurate when you give it more requirements. Also try asking the model to swap out the character or make new emotions or…
When to use it
Reach for ClaudeAnimationBase when you want to skip setup and start from a working SaaS, chatbot or full-stack template — it's written in JavaScript and fits stacks tagged claude.
