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How I Use Claude Code to Create 2D Animations (Tutorial)
A step-by-step walkthrough of turning a text prompt into a voiced, scripted 2D animation in minutes using Claude Code and the Golpo AI plugin.
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Claude Code Fable 5 can generate publication-quality mathematical animations through the Manim skill, making a 3Blue1Brown-style YouTube channel buildable by anyone willing to install four free tools and pay $19 per month for Claude Code.
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READ IF YOU ARE…
- You want to start a faceless YouTube channel in the math or science education niche and have no animation background.
- You already use Claude Code and want to explore its creative output beyond coding tasks.
- You are curious whether AI-generated Manim animations are visually comparable to hand-crafted ones.
SKIP IF…
- You want to build a sustainable channel without gating core prompts behind a paid community.
- You expect the title income figure to be the creator own earnings - it is a fabricated estimate of a third-party channel lifetime revenue.
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Claude Code paired with the Manim Python library can produce animated math videos that visually match professional educational channels. The workflow requires installing Claude Code, Node.js, Python, and MiKTeX, then asking Claude to install the Manim skill. From there, a single long prompt generates a rendered animation. The creator also introduces Higgsfield, a character-generation MCP tool, for adding a branded avatar, and composes the final video in CapCut. The central animation prompt is paywalled in the creator Skool community at $9 per month.
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00:00 – 01:01
01 · Hook + income claim
References 3Blue1Brown 751M views, estimates $2M-$10M lifetime earnings, promises to teach the same animation style.
01:01 – 01:19
02 · Disclaimer
Explicitly states the video is a how-to, not a get-rich promise.
01:19 – 01:59
03 · Reference channel overview
Shows 3Blue1Brown channel page and sample animations to define target output quality.
01:59 – 02:16
04 · Step 1 - Install Claude Code
Download and install Claude Code from the official site.
02:16 – 02:39
05 · Step 2 - Install Node.js
Download Node.js Windows installer.
02:39 – 03:04
06 · Step 3 - Install Python
Download Python 3.14.5 from python.org.
03:04 – 03:59
07 · Step 4 - Install MiKTeX
Download MiKTeX, required for LaTeX rendering inside Manim. All tools free except Claude Code at $19 per month.
03:59 – 04:46
08 · Step 5 - Launch Claude Code, select Fable 5
Open Claude Code, navigate to Code section, select Fable 5 model or Opus 4.8 as fallback.
04:46 – 05:57
09 · Step 6 - Install Manim skill
Type Install the manim skill in Claude Code. Shows permission prompts and always-allow flow.
05:57 – 07:49
10 · Step 7 - Paste animation prompt
Prompt available only in creator Skool community at $9 per month, down from $49. Community tour shown as soft sell.
07:49 – 09:15
11 · Step 8 - View rendered animation
Claude Code generates and renders a Manim animation. Output shown: wave surface, quadratic formula derivation.
09:15 – 10:34
12 · Step 9 - Install Higgsfield skill for characters
Install Higgsfield CLI, authenticate, add as Claude Code skill. Generate a branded 2D character via voice prompt.
10:34 – 12:22
13 · Step 10 - Compose in CapCut
Download character, remove background in CapCut, overlay on animation. Final output shown.
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- Claude Code does not animate natively - it writes Python code using the Manim library, which does the actual rendering via LaTeX.
- MiKTeX is a non-obvious dependency that must be installed before Manim can render any LaTeX equations.
- The entire tutorial is a soft funnel: every step is free except the one prompt that makes the output worth watching.
- A referral link in the description reveals Higgsfield is a paid partnership, not an organic tool discovery.
- The $41,537 per month title claim is the creator estimate of a third-party channel earnings, disclosed only mid-video.
- Claude Code permission system with always-allow prompts is explicitly demystified for viewers afraid of giving an AI terminal access.
- Manim animations rendered by Claude Code are visually indistinguishable from the reference channel hand-crafted outputs in a side-by-side comparison.
- The Higgsfield CLI installs as an MCP skill inside Claude Code, so character-generation and animation workflows share the same interface.
- CapCut one-click background removal is the final step that composites the Higgsfield character onto the Manim animation.
- At $19 per month for Claude Code plus $9 per month for the community, the minimum monthly cost to follow this tutorial is $28.
Claude Code makes math animation accessible, not automatic.
WHAT TO LEARN
The stack that powers 3Blue1Brown-style animations is now accessible to non-programmers through Claude Code, but the actual prompt and therefore the actual output quality remains paywalled.
- Claude Code writes the Manim Python code; the Manim library and MiKTeX do the actual animation and LaTeX rendering, so understanding this stack prevents confusion when something breaks.
- MiKTeX is the least-obvious dependency: without it, Manim cannot render any equations, and the setup will fail silently for most new users.
- The skill registry inside Claude Code is a growing ecosystem, and asking Claude to install the X skill is the access pattern for tools like Manim, Higgsfield, and others.
- Giving Claude Code terminal access via always-allow is not a security risk for these tasks because all actions are permission-gated and logged in the session.
- Higgsfield generates consistent character poses from natural language, making it practical for branded faceless content without a design background.
- The real production cost of this workflow is time spent on setup across four installs and two CLI authentications, since the actual animation generation takes under a minute once the stack is ready.
- CapCut one-click background removal is the fastest path to compositing a Higgsfield character onto a Manim animation without any masking work.
Terms worth knowing.
- Manim
- A Python library originally built by 3Blue1Brown for programmatic mathematical animation. It renders equations via LaTeX and produces smooth animated graphs, surfaces, and algebraic transformations.
- MiKTeX
- A free LaTeX distribution for Windows. Manim requires it to typeset and render mathematical notation inside animations.
- Higgsfield
- An AI image and character generation service that exposes an MCP interface, letting Claude Code generate and iterate on illustrated characters via natural language prompts.
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- An open protocol by Anthropic that lets external tools expose capabilities to Claude Code as callable skills, similar to browser extensions but for AI agents.
- Manim skill
- A Claude Code skill installable via the skills registry that wraps the Manim Python library and gives Claude the context needed to write and render animations.
- Faceless YouTube
- A channel format where the creator face is never shown, relying instead on animations, screencasts, or AI-generated characters to reduce production friction.
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00:21
“What if I told you you can create the exact same animations using Claude Fable five?”
06:46
“Cloud Code is not going to use your computer. Cloud Code is always asking permission to do those things.”
08:17
“This is actually insane. And this is just one example of what you can create with this skill.”
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00:00Alright. Cloth fable five just launched and is going to completely change YouTube forever. Let me show you why.
00:07This channel over here has 8,000,000 subscribers and almost 800,000,000 views.
00:12Now the reason why this channel is so successful is because it takes complicated math concepts and turns them into beautiful animations that are easy to understand. What if I told you you can create the exact same animations using Claude Fable five?
00:26Now here's the crazy part. Based on my own experience of running my own YouTube channel and having access to my own AdSense, I can assume how much money a YouTube channel makes based on views.
00:37And so based on my own experience and my own assumption, I assume a channel like this one probably made around $2,000,000 to $10,000,000 in its lifetime.
00:47Now this is just an assumption. I don't actually know how much money this channel made, but I like to think I'm pretty close to the answer. Now that I got you excited, in this video, I'm gonna be showing you how to use the new model from Claude, Fable five to create animations just like this channel.
01:02Now before we start, I just wanna say that the purpose of this video is not me telling you you can go ahead and make a channel like this one and make millions of dollars. That's not the purpose of this video. The purpose of this video is for you to learn how Cloth Table five works and how you can create these animations using this new model.
01:15That's it. Now with that said, let me show you how you can create these animations. So first, let me show you the channel I was talking As you can see, this channel over here has 8,000,000 subscribers and over 200 uploads.
01:27The total number of views is 750,000,000 views.
01:31And if we look at one of the videos, let's say we click on this video over here, we will see that the animations inside this video look like this. Right? So these animations over here, these ones over here, are the animations I'm gonna be teaching you how to create using CloudFable five.
01:44And you can use these animations over here to create all types of content, not just mathematics. You can create a lot of things using these animations. You can use it as a business presentation.
01:53You can use it on your website. There are a lot of things you can do with these animations. So let me show you how to create them.
01:59Alright. For this to work, first, you need clot code on your computer. So go to your browser, search for clot code just like me over here.
02:07Go to this website, the clot code website. Click on this button, download for Windows, and download clot code on your computer.
02:14And obviously, install clot code on your computer. After you install it, go to your browser again, search for Node.
02:21Js over here. Go to this website over here with the green icon, which is called Node. Js.
02:27Click on this website, and then click over here get Node. Js.
02:31Then over here down where it says Windows installer, click on this, and it's going to download the MSI file and then install Node. Js on your computer.
02:39After you install Node. Js, go to your browser again and search for Python over here as you can see Python. Search for Python and then go to this website over here, python.org.
02:49Go to this website, and then click over here where it says downloads. Click on downloads.
02:54Then click over here where it says, or get the standalone installer for Python three point one four point one five. Right? So click on this over here and install Python on your computer.
03:04Now after you install Python on your computer, I want you to go to your browser again and search for Mike Tex over here. As you can see, Mike Tex.
03:12After you search for this, go to their website, which is miketexorg. Click on this. Then over here at the top where it says download, click on download, and then download it on your computer.
03:23As you can see, you can download for Windows, for Mac, for Linux. And I'm gonna download for Windows because I have Windows. Then click on this button over here where it says download, and then install MycTex on your computer.
03:33All those things, by the way, are free to download and install. MycTex, Python, Node.
03:37Js, all of those things are free to install. Also, Cloud Code is free to install, but you are going to need a subscription to Cloud Code, which is, I think, $19 a month. But in my opinion, it's worth it.
03:46And even if you don't wanna subscribe, I still recommend you watch this video because maybe by the end of this video, you might change your mind and you might wanna get Cloud Code. Now, after you've installed all those things, congratulations, you're done with the first boring part.
03:59Now it's time for the second boring part. So what I want you to do is open Clot code on your computer. I'm gonna search for Clot over here in my search bar.
04:06So on the search, as you can see, you can find Clot. I'm gonna search for Clot. As you can see, it's just say Clot app.
04:11Open it and it should look something like this. So over here, we're on the code. Maybe yours is going to be on co work over here, or maybe it's going to be on Chad.
04:19Um, what I want you to do is click on this icon to the top left over here so you're on the code section of Cloud Code. So inside Cloud Code, what I want you to do is click over here on the model and make sure you select Fable five. As you can see, we have Opus 4.8.
04:33We have Sonnet 4.6. Make sure you choose Fable five. If you don't have access to Fable five yet, you can also choose Opus 4.8 or you can also choose the other models.
04:44Right? I think this is going to work with the other models as well. What I want you to do is type the following message to Cloud Code.
04:50Install the manim skill.
04:53That's it. Send this message and wait for Cloud Code to install this skill. It's going to ask you to allow access a bunch of times and I'm gonna show you how that looks.
05:02And as you can see, Cloud Code is searching for the skills over here and is going to install the manum skill. Now I already have this skill installed, but I'm just going to install it again just to show you. So as you can see over here, allow Cloud Code to run search skills registry for a metadata.
05:16What you need to do is click over here on this button which says always allow. So click on this to always allow Cloud Code to do those things. Once again, Cloud Code is going to ask you to allow it, so click over here always allow.
05:26And it's probably going to ask you again. As you can see, Cloud Code wants to use PowerShell now, is basically your terminal. And, basically, Cloud Code is going to use the terminal to install this skill.
05:37So just click always allow. Now the reason why I'm explaining these things is for you to understand what is happening in the background because a lot of you are afraid of Cloud Code using your computer or whatever. Cloud Code is not going to use your computer.
05:47As you can see, Cloud Code is always asking permission to do those things. And as you can see, I already have the skill installed so it's not going to install it. But if you don't have it installed, just click yes and yes and yes and allow until you install it.
05:58Now once you have the skill installed, we can now create these animations. And let me show you how to create these animations. Now to create a beautiful animation using manim and basically code, this is the prompt I'm gonna be using.
06:10It's quite a long prompt. And if you wanna copy this prompt, you can get it for free inside my private community. There's going to be a link down in the description where you can join my private community for free.
06:19So this is my private community. And inside the classroom over here where it says classroom, if you click on classroom, besides all the courses I have on n eight automation, open cloud automation, CapCut video editing, cloud video editing, faces YouTube course, and many other things I have over here.
06:32If you scroll down, we have free prompts. And if you click on free prompts, this is where I share my free prompts I use inside my videos. If you click on this and then you click on man and skill prompts, you have the prompts I'm gonna be using inside this video over here.
06:43So what I want you to do, join my community and then go over here and copy this prompt over here. Just copy it, go back to Cloud, and paste it inside Cloud over here. Once you paste this inside Cloud, just hit enter.
06:54And now in literally one minute, ClotCode is going to code the animation, and I'm gonna show you right away how it looks. Now again, ClotCode is going to ask for permission to do a bunch of things, so just click always allow.
07:06Now while Cloud Code is going to create this animation, I just wanna show you my community a little bit. If you wanna learn more about AI, if you wanna learn more about Faceless YouTube, you can go to my community, become a premium member for just $9. Usually, it used to cost $49, but I dropped the price as you can see over here in my last post.
07:20I dropped the price from $49 to $9, and you basically get access to everything you see inside here. And I wanna show you how much content there is inside my courses.
07:29So if you click on the faceless YouTube course, this is how it looks. Right? We have all the content over here.
07:34So if you wanna stay up to date with AI and all the AI tools and how they work and how to use them, you can just go ahead and join my community. There's going to be a link down in the description where you can join my community. Now let's get back to ClotCode and let's see how the animation looks like.
07:48Now before I show you the animation, I wanna show you how the animation looks in the background because the animation is just code. So basically, this is your animation.
07:56Your animation is literally code. Cloud Code has coded the animation. Now let me show you how the animation looks like.
08:03If you can't find it or you if you can't find the folder, what you wanna do is just tell Claude Code to show the folder for you. So link me the full folder with the video.
08:14So just send this message to Claude and it's going to link you the folder where he rendered the animation. And as you can see over here is the folder. You can literally click on this.
08:22It's going to open the video for you. So this is the animation it created. And as you can see, it's like a very beautiful moving graph, mathematical graph.
08:32Right? This is actually insane. And this is just one example of what you can create with this skill.
08:39This is absolutely insane. Let me actually show you some other animations I've created. So you can also create animations like these ones over here.
08:46Right? This was created using Cloud Code. As you can see, you have, like, a text and you have the equation, and then it's moving around and it's doing the equation.
08:55Like, this is insane. And if I'm going to show you the channel, these things look identical. They are created like this.
09:01Now what this channel also does, it has specific characters that basically present these animation. As you can see, these characters over here are presenting these animations, and you can create that as well.
09:12You can create your own character for your brand or your own avatar. For that, you have to use the Higgs field skill. So let me show you how you can create your own characters or your own avatar for your own brand.
09:23Down in the description, there's going to be a link to Higgs field. Click on that link and it should send you to this page over here. Create an account or log in with Google and then click over here where it says MCP and CLI.
09:33Click on this. Then once you click on this, click on CLI over here. Once you click on CLI, what I want you to do is copy this command over here by clicking on it, then over here on your search bar, search for terminal just like this.
09:44Click on the terminal, then control v on your keyboard. Press control v on your keyboard to paste this command and then just type enter.
09:52And after you press enter, it's going to start installing the CLI. What I want you to do next is pretty obvious. Go back to Higgs field over here.
09:59Copy the second command. Go back to your terminal. Paste the other command.
10:03Type enter. It's going to ask you to authorize access Higgs field. Basically, that's why you need an account on Higgs field.
10:08After you do that, go back to Higgs field, copy this command over here, go back to your terminal, paste it, and here's where you're going to install the Higgs field skill. Basically, just type enter After you create the Higgs field skill, you can close the terminal, go back to your Cloud Code, and over here inside Cloud Code, you can ask Cloud Code to use the skill to create your own character or your own avatar.
10:28So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna use my microphone over here. I'm gonna click on the microphone so I don't type a lot, and I'm gonna ask Cloud Code to create a character for me.
10:35So, hey Claude, can you use the Higgs field skill and create a character for me? A two d character that teaches math on YouTube.
10:44Keep it simple. Keep it fun. Don't create a background because I don't need a background.
10:48I just want the character. Be creative and fun.
10:53And now because you've installed the Higgs field skill, Cloud Code is going to use this skill to create a character for you. Now once Higgs field is done generating the image, you will have it over here as you can see saved locally.
11:05You can click on it and open it. And as you can see, you have your character for your brand.
11:10Now you can also go ahead and change the position of this character or the expression. So basically what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna send a voice message to Claude and ask him to create different positions for this character. So, hey, Claude.
11:19Can you change the position of this character and make one where he's standing still and one where she's pointing her finger to the right? And that was going to also generate these images super quick. And you can also check the images on your Higgs field account.
11:34As you can see, we have the character over here standing still or pointing. And what you can do, you can download this character and then you can use it in your video as your character.
11:44Me show you how. So this is the equation video over here. Right?
11:47To take our character which is pointing, put it on top of the equation.
11:54I was like, oh my god. It has a white background. Just click on it.
11:56Click remove background, auto removal over here in CapCut. Super quick, super drag it down like this. You can even add an animation to it.
12:03So and now you also have your own character that is pointing at these animations. Right? Super simple.
12:09Now if you feel like you've learned something new from this video, you might wanna watch this video over here because inside this video, I'm gonna show you how you can create actual videos using AI. So if that sounds interesting and you wanna learn more about AI, just click on this video and
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
A 12-minute tutorial built on a single bait-and-switch: the income number in the title is borrowed from 3Blue1Brown estimated lifetime earnings, not the creator own. What follows is a genuine step-by-step walkthrough through Claude Code, Manim, MiKTeX, and Higgsfield that ends with a real animated math video composited in CapCut. The one thing you cannot get without paying is the prompt.
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01:59list
Manim Animation Stack
- Claude Code (orchestrator)
- Manim Python library (renderer)
- MiKTeX (LaTeX engine)
- Node.js (runtime dependency)
- Python 3.14 (execution environment)
The five-component stack required to generate 3Blue1Brown-style math animations from natural language prompts.
Steal forAny tutorial covering AI-assisted technical content production
10:34list
Faceless Channel Production Stack
- Claude Code + Manim (animation)
- Higgsfield (character generation)
- CapCut (composition + background removal)
Three-tool pipeline to go from prompt to a complete faceless math video with a branded character.
Steal forFaceless YouTube channel launch tutorials
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“Join my community for free. There is going to be a link down in the description where you can join my private community for free.”
Framed as free access with a community tour, then reveals $9 per month premium tier during the animation render wait time - mid-video upsell while Claude Code is running.
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