Papercut Explainer
Claude Code skills + a Remotion library for short vertical cut-paper explainer reels: strategy, hook, script, storyboard, voice, build, QA.
Install
npx skills add 0xS4N4TG/papercut-explainerclaude mcp add papercut-explainer -- npx skills add 0xS4N4TG/papercut-explainer{
"mcpServers": {
"papercut-explainer": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"skills",
"add",
"0xS4N4TG/papercut-explainer"
]
}
}
}Install command taken from the project's README or registry entry. Always review code before running it.
README excerpt
Read full README on GitHub →papercut-explainer
Make short vertical explainer reels that look like layered construction paper, with Claude Code doing the work.
The bundled example reel (examples/hello-reel), rendered from this repo. Silent placeholder voice, real captions, camera and cuts.
This repo is two things that work together:
- Nine Claude Code skills that run the whole pipeline: strategy, hook, script, storyboard, voice, build, QA, and an installer. Ask for a reel, or run one stage on its own.
- A Remotion library the skills build on: a paper-cut component kit, 24 backdrops, 17 camera moves, 10 scene transitions, film-look layers, 79 sound effects and 8 music beds, plus the scripts that tie them into an episode.
You describe the video ("explain this repo in 25 seconds"). The skills research it, write a script on a fixed spoken spine, plan every camera move and cut, make or fake the voiceover, and build the scenes in Remotion. You review stills and the final cut.
Contents
What is in the box · Install · Use it · Examples · How the workflow runs · Voice · Customising · Requirements · Cost · Troubleshooting · Limits · Licence
What is in the box
| Skills | papercut-explainer (router), papercut-setup, papercut-strategy, papercut-hook, papercut-script, papercut-storyboard, papercut-voice, papercut-build, papercut-qa |
| Subagent | papercut-scene, a scene builder with only file and shell tools, so parallel scene agents start small |
| Backdrops | 24 paper-diorama sets at 1080×1920 with measured floor lines (sheet) |
| Camera | OrbitCamera + Depth, SnapZoom, Crane, CrabTrack, DollyZoom, RackFocus, ForegroundPass, PullBack, FreezeFrame, PovMask, TimeRamp, DutchTilt, TiltShift, FocusPulse, FocusHunt, Handheld, CameraPush |
| Cuts | whip, zoomThrough, pageTurn, tearAway, tapePull, stampCut, infiniteZoom, popUpBook, keyhole, burnAway, chained with CutSeries |
| Film look | gate weave and flicker, moving felt fibre, lens dirt, lamp flicker, halftone, graph paper |
| Overlays | taped headline banner, word-by-word torn caption tags, hook title, real-screenshot proof card with marker circles |
| Kit | 188 exports in library/papercut/kit: paper primitives (Paper, Slab, Disc, Pill, Card), a base critter with accessories, prop sets, rough UI rebuilds, a comment-keyword CTA scene |
| Sound | 79 synthesised SFX and 8 music beds, picked by name, rendered with Web Audio (no audio files to license) |
| Tools | scaffold, cue sheets, cached renders, QA contact sheets, catalog generator, placeholder narration, optional local TTS setup |
Each camera move and cut, with its props and when to use it, is in library/papercut/CATALOG.md (sections paper/camera.tsx and paper/transitions.tsx).
Install
You need Node 20+, npm, ffmpeg, rsync and Python 3. Claude Code is the front end.
With npx skills (skills only, fastest):
npx skills add 0xS4N4TG/papercut-explainer
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