Claude just became a film director, and the skill is free

Scenario, a platform for generating images, music and sound, has released a free Claude skill that builds punchy kinetic-type films in 4K. The kind you see at product launches: huge words on every beat, whip pans, colour flips, 3D letters the camera flies straight through.

The trick is that there is no editing timeline and no generated motion. Each film is a single web page rendered frame by frame in a headless browser, with real motion blur. You describe your product in a couple of lines, Claude turns that into a beat sheet, places blocks on the rhythm grid and animates the whole thing.

Scenario handles the sound through its MCP: it generates a track at an exact tempo, the skill finds the downbeats and the drop, then builds a kit of one-shot sounds for the cuts. Every render is then checked frame by frame: how much of the film is static, whether anything holds too long, how many cuts there are and whether the file plays on a phone. A film that stalls between hits fails.

The demo, Just code, runs 51.8 seconds, 3,108 frames and 14 scenes on a 174 BPM phonk track, all drawn by code on a laptop. The skill is a single ZIP on the project page with the engine, 13 block types and the scripts that mix, render and check. People are already calling it a free stand-in for Katana, a similar Higgsfield skill that needs a subscription.

You need Claude Code with the Scenario MCP connected, Node 18 with Playwright, ffmpeg and Python with numpy and OpenCV. The visuals render on your own machine, while music and sound effects use Scenario credits, priced before each run.

Verdict: a part-time motion designer now fits in one ZIP file.