sprite-animation
Lets your agent create a pixel-art style animated explainer slide. It looks like an educational video frame with an animated mascot and kinetic text, ready for recording.
What it does
Creates an animated slide with an old video game (pixel art) style. It features a pixel art character or object, a large year display, and a moving timeline, all on a cream background.
When to use it
- ✓To create a quick, visual slide for a presentation.
- ✓When you want a retro or video game aesthetic.
- ✓To illustrate a specific point on a timeline.
Example of what to ask your AI
“Create an animated slide about the year 1985 featuring the Mario character in pixel art.”
Want more? Open the sections below.
How to use
The easiest way: copy the message below and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI. It reads the skill and follows the instructions.
Skill link
Ready-to-paste message
How it works
The AI uses code to generate a static image with looping animated elements like the character, the year, and a timeline. It's designed to look like a single frame from an educational video.
Installation
Easiest way: copy the skill link and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor asking it to follow the instructions.
In the terminal (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), in your project folder:
npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill sprite-animationOr download just the file:
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nexu-io/open-design/main/design-templates/sprite-animation/SKILL.md -o SKILL.mdTechnical content (original SKILL.md)
Original text by the author, straight from GitHub.
Sprite Animation Skill
Produce a single animated frame of an educational explainer — the kind you might screen-record into a vertical video. Pixel-art mascots, big year display, looping CSS animations, kinetic Japanese / English display type.
Workflow
- Read the active DESIGN.md (injected above). Pick the loudest serif token for the year, a sturdy sans for headlines, and a mono token for timeline / index labels.
- Pick the topic from the brief (e.g. "Nintendo · 1889 — Hanafuda"). You always need: a year, a one-line headline, an animated subject (a pixel sprite — character, object, or icon), and a short caption.
- Stage — full-bleed cream / off-white background (
#f5efe2) with a subtle paper grain. Keep margins generous; this is one beat of a video. - Top bar — small mono row:
- Left: title slug ("名次の/番組" or "EP. 01 / NINTENDO")
- Right: progress dots ("01 / 12") and a "REC" stamp
- Subject animations — at least three independent looping animations
on the page:
- Big year: the headline year (e.g. "1889年") fills the lower-left, in a serif display weight. It has a subtle vertical glitch / scanline animation (clip-path keyframes), and a 1-frame "pop" every loop.
- Pixel sprite card: a 96×128 pixel-art card or character (use an
inline SVG with crisp
shape-rendering: crispEdgesrectangles, or abox-shadowpixel grid). Subtle bobbing animation (±4px, 1.6s). - Kinetic kana: 1–2 Japanese / kanji characters that fade-and-slide in sync with the bob (e.g. "花" — hana — flower).
- Tick ribbon: bottom of the stage, a tape/ribbon with year ticks (1889 · 1907 · 1949 · 1977 · 1985 · 2006 · 2017) sliding left at a slow constant speed.
- Caption block — small mono caption explaining the trivia: "Nintendo started as a Hanafuda playing-card maker in Kyoto, 1889. Mario didn't show up for another ninety-six years."
- Write a single HTML document:
<!doctype html>through</html>, CSS inline, no external JS.- All animations use
@keyframes+animation: ... infinite. - Stage uses a fixed canvas ratio (e.g. 16:9 letterboxed) so the loop reads as a single frame from a video.
data-od-idon stage, year, sprite, caption, and tick ribbon.
- Self-check:
- The page is one cohesive scene, not a collage. The eye lands on the year first, then the sprite, then the caption.
- At least 3 independent looping animations are visible.
- The color palette is restrained (cream + a single accent red + ink).
- No external assets — all sprites are inline SVG or CSS.
Output contract
Emit between <artifact> tags:
<artifact identifier="sprite-anim-slug" type="text/html" title="Sprite animation — Title">
<!doctype html>
<html>...</html>
</artifact>
One sentence before the artifact, nothing after.
FAQ
What is 'pixel art'?
It's a digital art style where each dot (pixel) is visible, similar to old video games.
What are 'looping animations'?
These are movements that repeat continuously, like a character walking endlessly.
Can I choose any character?
Yes, you can request a character, object, or icon in a pixel art style.
Details
Original description by the author
A pixel / sprite-style animated explainer slide — full-bleed cream stage, bold display year, animated pixel-art mascot (e.g. Hanafuda card, mushroom, or 8-bit console), kinetic Japanese display type, ticking timeline ribbon. Reads like a single frame of an educational motion video — looping CSS keyframes, no JS, ready to be screen-recorded into a vertical video. Use when the brief asks for a "spri
repo: nexu-io/open-design
Popularity
- GitHub stars
- 101k
- Ranking position
- #500
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Updated
- 10/16/2026
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