Using Jake's Classroom to Build a full Animation Station in 30 Minutes ⏰

I had a script and nothing else. Thirty minutes later I had a finished branded animation, and a whole engine to generate them. I never set up a single thing myself.

That's the part I keep coming back to. Not that I made an animation, that the entire setup, the part that would normally stop me cold, I never touched.

Here's what actually happened.

I gave my coding agent Jake Van Clief's classroom lessons on making animations with Remotion. Then I pointed it at two things I already had: my branding and my voice docs.

And then I got out of the way.

The agent installed Remotion. It created the whole workspace. It pulled the patterns straight out of Jake's lessons and wired everything together. All the dependency-wrangling and project setup that usually eats an afternoon and makes me want to quit, done, without me.

I'm not a developer. Setting up a coding environment from scratch is exactly the kind of wall that used to end a project before it started. This time it just wasn't there.

So I went from a script to a real animation, in my brand, in about half an hour. Most of that half hour was me watching the agent work.

The skill I needed wasn't animation, and it wasn't code. It was knowing what to hand the agent and then trusting it to set the table.

Check out the animation below and my full writeup at https://donsbookshelf.com/blog/script-to-animation-in-30-minutes/

https://youtube.com/shorts/v-iVe-zOEUs?si=27OzFrltQAinzmpU

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Using Jake's Classroom to Build a full Animation Station in 30 Minutes ⏰