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sprite-animation

A pixel / sprite-style animated explainer slide — full-bleed cream stage, bold display year, animated pixel-art mascot (e.g. Hanafuda card, mushroom, or 8-bit console), kinetic Japanese display type, ticking timeline ribbon.

Install / Use

npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill sprite-animation

Installs into whichever agent you are using.

About this skill
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SKILL.md

Installable skill definition

Quality Score

87/100

Category

Marketing

Supported Platforms

Universal

Tags

Our assessment of sprite-animation

sprite-animation scores 87/100 on our quality scale, 329th of 586 Marketing skills we index.

Its SKILL.md is 4.0 KB long, split into 3 sections with 1 code example: a solid amount of guidance for an agent.

With 97,896 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.

Substance
26/30
Structure
12/20
Description
15/15
Adoption
20/20
Freshness
15/15

Maintenance, license and trust

  • The repository was last updated about 2 months ago, so sprite-animation is actively maintained.
  • Our last check on 2026-11-01 found the source still online.
  • It is released under the Apache-2.0 license, a permissive license that allows use, modification and commercial use with attribution.
  • Its trust signals score 100/100, with no cautions. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.

Safety scan

No issues found

Our scan of the whole file found no instruction hijacking, hidden characters, credential access, data exfiltration or destructive commands. An AI review of the same text found nothing harmful.

AI review by kimi-k2.7-code on 2026-09-25. Automated pattern scan on 2026-09-25. It catches known dangerous patterns, not every risk — read a skill before letting an agent act on it.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install sprite-animation?
Run npx skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill sprite-animation. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent.
Which AI agents does sprite-animation work with?
It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
Is sprite-animation safe to use?
Our scan of the whole file found no instruction hijacking, hidden characters, credential access, data exfiltration or destructive commands. An AI review of the same text found nothing harmful. It is Apache-2.0-licensed and scores 100/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
Is sprite-animation still maintained?
The repository was last updated about 2 months ago, so sprite-animation is actively maintained.

name: sprite-animation description: | A pixel / sprite-style animated explainer slide — full-bleed cream stage, bold display year, animated pixel-art mascot (e.g. Hanafuda card, mushroom, or 8-bit console), kinetic Japanese display type, ticking timeline ribbon. Reads like a single frame of an educational motion video — looping CSS keyframes, no JS, ready to be screen-recorded into a vertical video. Use when the brief asks for a "sprite animation", "pixel-art video", "8-bit explainer", "history of X explainer", "kinetic typography history", "Nintendo-style", "精灵图动画", "像素动画", or "复古动画". triggers:

  • "sprite animation"
  • "pixel art animation"
  • "8-bit explainer"
  • "retro animation"
  • "kinetic typography"
  • "history explainer"
  • "nintendo style"
  • "精灵图"
  • "像素动画"
  • "复古动画" od: mode: prototype platform: desktop scenario: marketing preview: type: html entry: index.html design_system: requires: true sections: [color, typography, layout, components] example_prompt: "Create a sprite-based animation introducing trivia about Nintendo's history. Combine pixel mascots, animated text, and a Hanafuda accent. Use color and type that feel like the Nintendo brand."

Sprite Animation Skill

Produce a single animated frame of an educational explainer — the kind you might screen-record into a vertical video. Pixel-art mascots, big year display, looping CSS animations, kinetic Japanese / English display type.

Workflow

  1. Read the active DESIGN.md (injected above). Pick the loudest serif token for the year, a sturdy sans for headlines, and a mono token for timeline / index labels.
  2. Pick the topic from the brief (e.g. "Nintendo · 1889 — Hanafuda"). You always need: a year, a one-line headline, an animated subject (a pixel sprite — character, object, or icon), and a short caption.
  3. Stage — full-bleed cream / off-white background (#f5efe2) with a subtle paper grain. Keep margins generous; this is one beat of a video.
  4. Top bar — small mono row:
    • Left: title slug ("名次の/番組" or "EP. 01 / NINTENDO")
    • Right: progress dots ("01 / 12") and a "REC" stamp
  5. Subject animations — at least three independent looping animations on the page:
    • Big year: the headline year (e.g. "1889年") fills the lower-left, in a serif display weight. It has a subtle vertical glitch / scanline animation (clip-path keyframes), and a 1-frame "pop" every loop.
    • Pixel sprite card: a 96×128 pixel-art card or character (use an inline SVG with crisp shape-rendering: crispEdges rectangles, or a box-shadow pixel grid). Subtle bobbing animation (±4px, 1.6s).
    • Kinetic kana: 1–2 Japanese / kanji characters that fade-and-slide in sync with the bob (e.g. "花" — hana — flower).
    • Tick ribbon: bottom of the stage, a tape/ribbon with year ticks (1889 · 1907 · 1949 · 1977 · 1985 · 2006 · 2017) sliding left at a slow constant speed.
  6. Caption block — small mono caption explaining the trivia: "Nintendo started as a Hanafuda playing-card maker in Kyoto, 1889. Mario didn't show up for another ninety-six years."
  7. Write a single HTML document:
    • <!doctype html> through </html>, CSS inline, no external JS.
    • All animations use @keyframes + animation: ... infinite.
    • Stage uses a fixed canvas ratio (e.g. 16:9 letterboxed) so the loop reads as a single frame from a video.
    • data-od-id on stage, year, sprite, caption, and tick ribbon.
  8. Self-check:
    • The page is one cohesive scene, not a collage. The eye lands on the year first, then the sprite, then the caption.
    • At least 3 independent looping animations are visible.
    • The color palette is restrained (cream + a single accent red + ink).
    • No external assets — all sprites are inline SVG or CSS.

Output contract

Emit between <artifact> tags:

<artifact identifier="sprite-anim-slug" type="text/html" title="Sprite animation — Title">
<!doctype html>
<html>...</html>
</artifact>

One sentence before the artifact, nothing after.

Related Skills

View on GitHub
GitHub Stars97.9k
CategoryMarketing
Updated1mo ago
Forks11.4k

Languages

TypeScript

Trust signals

100/100

From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.

No cautions
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