Lemo-Opuscar

Lemo-Opuscar is a free agent skill by Lemomo (LemoLab) that turns Claude Code into a small film studio. You pick one of 51 styles, from whiteboard explainers to pixel-art RPGs, describe your story, and the agent writes the code that draws every frame, composes the music, mixes the sound and renders an MP4. There is no video generation and no stock footage. Below you can watch all 51 of the author's demo films, see how it works, and read what happened when we asked it for a one-minute whiteboard explainer.

Checked 2026-10-19

Tested 2026-10-18 with claude-opus-5-5

All 51 styles

Every style comes with one demo film made by the author. Pick the look you want, then ask for it by name.

Evidence Films · 8

Satellite Briefing style: The Map Still Says Sea — Satellite BriefingThe Map Still Says Sea. A satellite follows the map to the Aral Sea and finds a desert; the only part that came back is the part someone dammed.
Climate & environment
Investigations & news explainers
Geography & history

Engineering Briefing Board style: The Ship Decides — Engineering Briefing BoardThe Ship Decides. A river needs a bridge; four bridge types are tested on one briefing wall, and the ship that must pass underneath picks the winner.
Engineering decisions
Option comparisons
Briefings & explainers

LiDAR Survey style: The Fields Under the Forest — LiDAR SurveyThe Fields Under the Forest. A laser survey strips the canopy off a Connecticut forest, layer by layer, and finds the stone walls of the farms that were there: 3.4 km of them, measured.
Archaeology & heritage
Forestry & environment
Infrastructure & site surveys

Projection on White Model style: How a Flattened City Grew Back — Projection on White ModelHow a Flattened City Grew Back. A projector lights Rotterdam's white model layer by layer: what stood before 1940, the decades that filled the hole, the towers, and the winter shadow the tallest one casts on the pre-war roofs.
Urban planning & real estate
Exhibitions & showrooms
City data & history

Data Physicalization style: Two Spirals — Data PhysicalizationTwo Spirals. Twelve years of wind and solar capacity stacked as real plates on a walnut dial: wind led in 2014, solar passed it in 2021, and by 2025 the ratio has turned the other way round.
Annual reports & ESG
Investor communications
Energy & climate statistics

Exploded Teardown style: 21 Keys, Opened — Exploded Teardown21 Keys, Opened. One half of an open-source keyboard comes apart in a single orbit, dives under its circuit board to the chip, the lights and the sockets, then closes with its real dimensions drawn on it.
Hardware launches
E-commerce product pages
Technical marketing & spec explainers

Microscope Story style: Measured Blue — Microscope StoryMeasured Blue. One continuous camera takes a liver slide from the eye down to a single nucleus; two circles 1.4 mm apart are counted pixel by pixel, and one holds 2.4 times the blue.
Biomedicine & pathology
Materials & surface science
Skincare & cosmetic science

Archive Light Table style: Two Seconds Short — Archive Light TableTwo Seconds Short. The telegram said the longest flight lasted 57 seconds and the newspaper printed it; under a loupe, the Wright brothers' glass negatives and the Library of Congress record say 59.
Brand history & anniversaries
Documentary & archive explainers
Museum & collection stories

Hand-drawn & Painting · 7

Crayon Picture Book style: The Moon Can't Sleep — Crayon Picture BookThe Moon Can't Sleep. The moon can't sleep, so a little girl climbs onto the roof to sing it a lullaby.
Picture books
Bedtime stories
Kids' learning

Watercolor Brush style: Follow the Rain — Watercolor BrushFollow the Rain. Follow the rain from Australia's red desert heart to its green coast in one unbroken painted walk.
Nature documentary
Travel
Science explainers

Chinese Ink Wash style: The Swordsman and the River — Chinese Ink WashThe Swordsman and the River. A swordsman crosses the river on the water and splits the current with a single stroke.
Wuxia
Cultural brands
Poetry

Impasto Oil Painting style: The Colour of Rain — Impasto Oil PaintingThe Colour of Rain. In a grey, rainy square one red umbrella opens, and a waltz paints the whole plaza in colour.
Music videos
Art & culture
Emotional ads

One-line Drawing style: The Line That Never Lifted — One-line DrawingThe Line That Never Lifted. One unbroken line draws a whole life, then the pen passes to a child.
Brand stories
Life milestones
Minimal ads

Whiteboard Explainer style: Einstein in Your Pocket — Whiteboard ExplainerEinstein in Your Pocket. How your phone knows where you are: GPS, atomic clocks, and the 38 microseconds relativity adds every day.
Explainers
Online courses
Science

Urban Sketch · Pen & Wash style: Where the Wind Went — Urban Sketch · Pen & WashWhere the Wind Went. A park that is only a pen sketch; wherever the wind carries her straw hat, colour follows.
City & travel
Architecture
Lifestyle brands

East Asian Traditions · 4

Shadow Puppetry style: Hou Yi Shoots the Suns — Shadow PuppetryHou Yi Shoots the Suns. Ten suns scorch the earth until the archer Hou Yi draws his bow, told with leather puppets on a lit screen.
Myths & folklore
Heritage
Festivals

Ukiyo-e style: A Journey Toward the Mountain — Ukiyo-eA Journey Toward the Mountain. A traveller walks toward a distant mountain; every shot is a woodblock print, ending in a great wave.
Travel
Japanese culture
Poetry

Red Paper-cut style: Nian Comes to Town — Red Paper-cutNian Comes to Town. On New Year's Eve the beast Nian comes to town, and one girl's giant paper-cut lights up the village to scare it off.
Lunar New Year
Festive greetings
Folk tales

Paper-cut Lightbox style: A Mooncake's Longing — Paper-cut LightboxA Mooncake's Longing. A single mooncake tells the Mid-Autumn story of reunion and longing inside a glowing paper-cut lightbox.
Festivals
Gift brands
Cultural stories

Print & Printmaking · 5

Risograph Print style: Sunday Ride — Risograph PrintSunday Ride. A Sunday-morning bike ride through the city — bakery, park, riverside — in two misregistered inks.
Indie brands
Zines
Lifestyle

Halftone Dossier style: Case File: Chubby — Halftone DossierCase File: Chubby. A chubby orange cat stands trial for testing gravity and 4 a.m. parkour, and walks free.
Humour
Pet content
Social shorts

Woodcut Print style: The Bell Founder — Woodcut PrintThe Bell Founder. A village spends a whole winter casting one bell; the first time it rings, the snow stops.
Folk tales
Craft brands
Book trailers

Copperplate Engraving style: The Honeybee, Plate VII — Copperplate EngravingThe Honeybee, Plate VII. A natural-history plate engraves itself: the burin cuts the copper, the bee builds up line by line, and a watercolour wash brings it to life.
Museum labels
Science explainers
Brand heritage

Silkscreen Travel Poster style: Three Trails — Silkscreen Travel PosterThree Trails. Three trail posters are screen-printed one ink at a time, then climbed in one long take from noon to dusk.
Trail & destination guides
Tourism promos
Event posters

Graphic & Type · 7

Swiss Motion Graphics style: Five Rules for a Poster — Swiss Motion GraphicsFive Rules for a Poster. A concert poster lays itself out by five Swiss design rules; the fifth is to break just one.
Brand identity
Events
Design education

60s Spy Title Sequence style: The Velvet Cipher — 60s Spy Title SequenceThe Velvet Cipher. Opening titles for an imaginary 1964 spy film: a chase for a stolen key until the shapes lock into the title.
Title sequences
Event openers
Trailers

Art Deco style: Midnight at the Starlight Hotel — Art DecoMidnight at the Starlight Hotel. A grand hotel, 1930: a bellboy races lifts and revolving doors to deliver one letter before midnight.
Luxury & hospitality
Galas
Invitations

Blueprint style: Patent Pending: The Cloud Catcher — BlueprintPatent Pending: The Cloud Catcher. An inventor's blueprint draws, explodes and assembles a cloud-catching machine, and its revision cloud starts to rain.
Engineering
Hardware launches
Tech explainers

Stained Glass style: The Dragon of the East Window — Stained GlassThe Dragon of the East Window. Sunlight crosses a cathedral window from dawn to dusk, waking each pane of a knight-and-dragon tale.
Legends
Heritage
Holiday stories

Pictogram Motion style: Aichi-Nagoya 2026 — All 43 Sports — Pictogram MotionAichi-Nagoya 2026 — All 43 Sports. All 43 sports of the 2026 Asian Games as beat-locked geometric pictograms.
Sports events
Visual identity
Event openers

ASCII / CRT Terminal style: Tranquility.log — ASCII / CRT TerminalTranquility.log. A moon-base AI wakes after forty years to a signal from Earth, and replies by drawing “home” in characters.
Developer tools
Sci-fi
Tech brands

Information & Keynote · 5

Data Storytelling style: A Hundred Summers — Data StorytellingA Hundred Summers. A hundred years of summer temperatures, where the chart itself tells the story.
Data journalism
Reports
Climate & science

Isometric Infographic style: From Bean to Cup — Isometric InfographicFrom Bean to Cup. A coffee's journey from the plantation to your hands, across one isometric world.
Process explainers
Supply chains
Annual reports

Dark Tech Keynote style: Room to Think — Dark Tech KeynoteRoom to Think. Launch film for Tidy, a fictional app: one buried cursor snaps hundreds of windows back into place.
Product launches
SaaS
Keynotes

Living Screencast style: Clawd Moves In — Living ScreencastClawd Moves In. Clawd, the Claude Code pixel mascot, hops out of the terminal into the Claude app and acts out plan mode, diff comments and self-checks in a one-take screencast.
Product tutorials
Feature launches
Onboarding

Sci-fi Hologram HUD style: Volt · Spec Scan — Sci-fi Hologram HUDVolt · Spec Scan. An e-bike is scanned into a hologram; target boxes lock onto the battery, motor and brakes, and each spec rolls into place.
Product spec walkthroughs
Launch & crowdfunding videos
Trade-show screens

Cartoon & Anime · 4

1930s Rubber Hose Cartoon style: Coffee Cup Chase — 1930s Rubber Hose CartoonCoffee Cup Chase. A coffee cup chases a runaway sugar cube around the kitchen, 1930s-cartoon style.
Food & drink
Retro ads
Kids

80s Cel Anime style: City Lights, 1987 — 80s Cel AnimeCity Lights, 1987. A courier girl rides through a rain-soaked neon city to deliver a tape before the dawn launch.
Music videos
Game trailers
Nostalgia

Sci-Fi Sitcom Toon style: Coffee Run — Sci-Fi Sitcom ToonCoffee Run. A jaded genius opens a portal just to buy coffee and tumbles through ever-stranger universes.
Comedy
Tech brands
Social shorts

Mid-century Cartoon style: Meet Pip — Mid-century CartoonMeet Pip. A robot vacuum set up in three steps, told like a 1950s classroom film: place the dock, connect the app, press start.
Product set-up guides
Help-centre explainers
How-to steps

Games · 4

16-bit Pixel RPG style: The Last Save Point — 16-bit Pixel RPGThe Last Save Point. At the final boss door a hero saves the game, and the save screen replays the whole journey.
Game trailers
Recaps
Nostalgia

HD-2D style: The Lampbearer — HD-2DThe Lampbearer. The lighthouse goes dark; a girl carries the last flame through a night forest and up the storm cliffs.
Game trailers
Fantasy
Story films

Microgame Frenzy style: Five-Second Astronaut — Microgame FrenzyFive-Second Astronaut. A clumsy cadet survives a five-second boot camp, faster and faster, until the boss: landing home.
Game trailers
Onboarding
Social shorts

Game Show Flat style: Rhythm of AI, 1997 → 2026 — Game Show FlatRhythm of AI, 1997 → 2026. The history of AI as a rhythm game: models take the stage on the beat, and a report card closes the show.
Tech timelines
Year in review
Variety shows

Cinema & Eras · 2

1920s Silent Film style: The Runaway Loaf — 1920s Silent FilmThe Runaway Loaf. A baker's boy chases a runaway loaf downhill, then breaks it in half for a hungry girl.
Comedy
Retro brands
Silent storytelling

Liminal Found Footage style: Night Shift Orientation — Liminal Found FootageNight Shift Orientation. A new night-shift hire films their first night in an endless yellow office, following the rules on the wall.
Horror
Mystery & ARG
Game teasers

Materials & 3D · 5

Brick Toy style: Rocket from Spare Parts — Brick ToyRocket from Spare Parts. A brick astronaut builds a rocket from spare parts and flies to a brick moon.
Toys & kids
Product builds
Space

Tilt-Shift Miniature style: Toy Town Rush Hour — Tilt-Shift MiniatureToy Town Rush Hour. Morning rush hour in a town that looks like a model: traffic, trains and tiny people.
City promos
Real estate
Transport

Low-poly Isometric Island style: The Island That Grew — Low-poly Isometric IslandThe Island That Grew. An island and its village grow tile by tile from an empty sea, each tile a note, into a starry night.
Game trailers
World building
Calm content

Glass Product Render style: Aura — Hear the Light — Glass Product RenderAura — Hear the Light. Unboxing and close-ups of Aura, fictional glass earbuds, in strip-light sweeps and caustics.
Product launches
Consumer tech
Beauty

Demo films and stills by LemoLab, licensed CC BY 4.0, shown unchanged. Some include Chinese on-screen text. The films play from the author's own gallery site. They are the author's showcase films, made with Claude Opus 5.5, not output from our test.

How it works

One small skill

The skill itself is a few lines. It clones the library to ~/lemo-opuscar, installs the tools and tells Claude to follow the library's instructions. There is no MCP server and no separate skill per style.

Guides the agent reads

One guide sets the workflow, one covers story, rhythm and camera, and one covers rendering and sound. Each of the 51 styles is a single style sheet of about 100 to 140 lines on its materials, colours, type, motion, camera and sound. Claude reads the one you name.

Pictures drawn by code

Claude writes a web page for your film that can draw any moment of it on a canvas or in three.js. A headless browser then renders it frame by frame at 1920×1080 and 24 fps.

Sound and the final cut

A sampler plays a score Claude writes on free instrument libraries, and sound effects are synthesised in code. Narration is optional: Kokoro for English or edge-tts for Chinese, checked with Whisper. ffmpeg mixes it all into the MP4.

Try it

1. Install the skill
```
claude plugin marketplace add lemomo-ai/lemo-opuscar
claude plugin install lemo-opuscar@lemolab
```
Run in a terminal. You need Node 20 or newer, ffmpeg and Python 3.11 or newer (or uv).
2. Ask Claude Code for a film
```
Make a 45-second film in the Watercolor style about the coffee farm my family runs. Warm female narrator.
```
The README's own example. Swap in any style name from above and your own topic. It asks you a few questions once, then works on its own for 30 to 60 minutes.

Best for

Explainers, data stories and short narrative films with a distinct look
People who want a film they can edit and re-render as code
Claude Code users who are comfortable in a terminal

Not the best fit for

Quick clips; the README says a film takes an agent 30 to 60 minutes and a fair amount of tokens
Models other than Claude Opus 5.5; the author warns the styles may not carry over
Photoreal footage; everything is drawn by code, not generated or filmed

Key facts

Author: Lemomo (LemoLab)
Licence: MIT for the code; CC BY 4.0 for the demo films and stills
Version checked: Not stated
Works with: Built for Claude Code and tuned for Claude Opus 5.5; other agents can load the skill folder, but the README warns that other models may not reproduce the styles
Language: Style names in English or Chinese; on-screen text in the language you ask for
What it produces: Short films rendered in code (1920×1080 at 24 fps by default) in one of 51 styles, with an original score, sound effects, subtitles and optional text-to-speech narration
Install: Run claude plugin marketplace add lemomo-ai/lemo-opuscar, then claude plugin install lemo-opuscar@lemolab; or clone the repository and start Claude Code inside it

From the skill’s own repository. “Not stated” means the repository does not say.

Our test

2026-10-18 · Claude Code subagent, working from a clone of the repository · claude-opus-5-5 · repository commit a7fc269

Request

Make a whiteboard explainer of about 60 seconds on how the Pomodoro Technique works. Use only these facts: one round is 25 minutes of focus plus a 5-minute break; a phone interrupts focus, and moving it to another room helps; for tasks that need long thinking you can lengthen the focus block, for example to 50 minutes. English on-screen text and subtitles. No narration, music and sound effects only. No storyboard review.

What we tested

We cloned the repository and gave a Claude Code subagent on Claude Opus 5.5 the brief above, with the Whiteboard Explainer style and no narration, so the film had to work with music, sound effects and on-screen text alone. The agent followed the repository's own workflow: it read the director and technique guides and the style sheet, wrote a treatment, built the film, checked stills and a contact sheet, then rendered, scored, mixed and subtitled it.

What we found

It delivered a finished film. The result was a 62-second MP4 at 1920×1080 and 24 fps, with an original score, sound effects synced to each pen stroke, nine subtitles and loudness normalised to −14 LUFS. It stuck to the three facts in the brief.
The tooling is the strong part. Rendering, audio sampling, sound design, the readability check and the final mix all came from the repository and worked first time. Rendering all 1,498 frames took 18 seconds.
The film itself is still written by the agent. About 500 lines of new code (the shots, the score and the mix) were the agent's own, drawing heavily on the style's demo. Its own estimate was roughly 15 minutes of work after reading the guides, which it called a lower bound.
We hit a few rough edges. The whiteboard demo references a handwriting font the repository does not include, so the agent downloaded it. The readability check needs a hook the demo page does not provide. There is no general subtitle exporter, and the guides assume a narrated film. Most comments in the core tools are in Chinese.
Competent, not stunning. The style was there: a glossy board, a floating marker, magnets as the only moving objects. But the opening is slow without a voice, the full-board pull-back near the end looks sparse, and the final hold runs a little long.

The films above show what the author gets from the same library. Our single run landed below that bar, which fits the README's own note that a film takes 30 to 60 minutes of agent work: a quick pass gets you a usable explainer, and the showcase look takes more iteration.

FAQ

What does Lemo-Opuscar do?

It gives a coding agent a library of 51 film styles plus guides on directing, rendering, scoring and mixing. You describe a story and name a style; the agent writes web pages that draw each frame, renders them to video, writes an original score from free sample libraries, adds sound effects and subtitles, and muxes the final MP4.

Does it use AI video generation?

No. Every frame is drawn by code (canvas and WebGL) and rendered frame by frame. The README says there is no video generation and no stock footage. Narration, when you want it, comes from text-to-speech.

How do I install it?

In a terminal, run claude plugin marketplace add lemomo-ai/lemo-opuscar and then claude plugin install lemo-opuscar@lemolab. On first use it downloads the guides and tools to ~/lemo-opuscar. You can also clone the repository and start Claude Code inside it, which is how we tested it. For other agents, the README says to copy the plugin/skills/lemo-opuscar folder into their skills folder.

What do I need on my computer?

Node 20 or newer, ffmpeg and Python 3.11 or newer (or uv). The agent installs the rest. Output defaults to 1920×1080 at 24 frames per second.

Is it free, and can I use the films commercially?

The skill is free: the code is MIT-licensed, and the README says films you make with it are yours, with no credit needed. The author's own demo films and stills are CC BY 4.0, so reusing those needs credit to LemoLab. You still pay for the Claude usage, and a film uses a fair amount of tokens.

Repository

github.comgithub.com/lemomo-ai/lemo-opuscar ↗