hermes-sync/skills/creative/manim-video/README.md

Manim Video Skill

Production pipeline for mathematical and technical animations using Manim Community Edition.

What it does

Creates 3Blue1Brown-style animated videos from text prompts. The agent handles the full pipeline: creative planning, Python code generation, rendering, scene stitching, and iterative refinement.

Use cases

• Concept explainers — "Explain how neural networks learn"
• Equation derivations — "Animate the proof of the Pythagorean theorem"
• Algorithm visualizations — "Show how quicksort works step by step"
• Data stories — "Animate our before/after performance metrics"
• Architecture diagrams — "Show our microservice architecture building up"

Prerequisites

Python 3.10+, Manim CE (pip install manim), LaTeX, ffmpeg.

bash skills/creative/manim-video/scripts/setup.sh