How to Create AI Animations with Claude Code + Remotion

Want to make animations with AI instead of manually coding everything from scratch? In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up Claude Code with Remotion so you can create cleaner, render-safe animations using AI. We’ll create a new Remotion project, install the Remotion best-practices skill for Claude Code, and use it to generate a cinematic animation inside Remotion Studio. You’ll learn how to enable agent skills during project setup, select Claude Code as the target agent, install the skill at the project level, and use the recommended symlink method. I’ll also show you how to add the same Remotion skill to an existing project using: npx skills add remotion-dev/skills Then we’ll open the SKILL.md file and the rules folder so you can see how Claude Code gets Remotion-specific guidance for animations, timing, transitions, audio, video dimensions, captions, and more. Finally, I’ll use Claude Code to create a 5-second cinematic YouTube intro animation, preview it in Remotion Studio, and render the final video. Commands used: npx create-video@latest my-project npm install npx skills add remotion-dev/skills npm run dev