How to Create Professional Animations with Just Plain English

Forget After Effects. Forget complex timelines. The barrier to entry for professional video creation just vanished. A new integration between Remotion and Claude Code (AI agent) allows anyone to create broadcast-quality animations by typing plain English commands.

Whether you are a developer, a founder, or a marketer, you can now “code” a video without writing a single line of code yourself. Here is how this breakthrough technology works and how you can use it to grow your business.

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What is Remotion?

At its core, Remotion is a framework that allows you to create videos programmatically using React (code) instead of a traditional timeline.

• Old Way: Dragging files onto a timeline, manually keyframing movements, and struggling with complex UI tools like Premiere Pro or After Effects.
• Remotion Way: The video is a website that gets recorded frame-by-frame. You use data (APIs, databases, or user input) to drive the visuals.

While Remotion is powerful, it previously required you to know how to code in React. That has now changed.

The Game Changer: Agent Skills

Remotion has released Agent Skills—specialized instruction files that teach AI coding agents (specifically Claude Code, referred to in the video as “Cloth Code” or “Close Code”) how to use Remotion.

This uses a concept called Progressive Disclosure:

1. You don’t need to dump the entire documentation into the AI’s context window.
2. The AI only loads the specific instructions (skills) it needs when you ask for a video task.
3. The result? The AI writes the complex React code for you, and Remotion renders it into a video.

“Not only can you use AI to build your product, now you can use AI to market it as well.”

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Step-by-Step Setup Guide

Here is how to set up your own text-to-video studio in minutes.

1. Installation

Open your terminal (don’t be afraid—it’s just copy-pasting!) and run the following commands:

• Create a Remotion Project:npx create-remotion@latest
  • Select “Blank” template.
  • Select “Yes” for Tailwind CSS.
  • Select “Yes” to add Agent Skills.
• Install the Agent Skills: Go to skills.sh or run: npx skills add remotion-dev/skills
  • Select “Claude Code” as the agent.

2. Launching the Agent

Navigate to your project folder and type: claude

This launches Claude Code in your terminal. You can verify the skills are active by typing /skill to see “Remotion Best Practices” listed.

3. Creating Your First Video

Type your request in plain English. For example:

“Create a visual animation in the style of 3Blue1Brown explaining the Pythagorean theorem. Use a blue background and white geometric shapes.”

Claude will:

1. Read the Remotion skill files.
2. Create the directory structure.
3. Write the React components for the animation.
4. Launch a preview server.

To see your video, run: npm run dev This opens a local player where you can scrub through the timeline and see the code’s output in real-time.

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Best Practices for High-Quality Results

To get “insane” professional results, follow these rules:

1. Start with a Storyboard Don’t just say “make a video.” Describe the scenes.

• Bad: “Make an ad for my app.”
• Good: “Scene 1: A cursor clicks the terminal icon. Scene 2: Text types ‘Hello World’. Scene 3: Fade to logo.”

2. Iterate, Don’t One-Shot Start with a base animation (e.g., “Draw a triangle”). Once that works, refine it (e.g., “Now rotate the triangle 90 degrees”). This keeps the AI focused and reduces errors.

3. Use High-Quality Assets The AI builds the motion, but you should provide the design elements. If you are making a game trailer, provide the sprite images. If it’s a product demo, provide high-res screenshots.

4. Keep it Modular Ask the AI to create separate subdirectories for each animation. This keeps your project clean and prevents file conflicts.

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Why This Matters for Business

In 2026, speed is everything. Traditionally, a 30-second animated explainer video could cost thousands of dollars and take weeks to produce.

With Remotion + Claude Code:

• Cost: $0 (plus the cost of the AI subscription).
• Time: Minutes.
• Skill: None required (just English).

You can now generate product updates, social media ads, and educational content instantly. As the speaker notes, “If you’re not using Claude Code in 2026, you are falling behind.”