meetjunaid/newspaper-highlight-animation

Turn any word into a 3-second newspaper hook, exported in **4K at 60 fps**.
23 newspaper, magazine and web pages flip past, with **your word highlighted in yellow, dead-centre, on every one.**
Reel and YouTube versions, rendered at once.
 
A downsized, silent preview. **🔊 Watch it with the sound**
⬇️ Get it in 2 minutes. No GitHub needed.
One click, and the ZIP lands in your Downloads folder. Keep it zipped.
**Then pick where you use AI:**
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✨ What you get
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| 🎬 **4K · 60 fps** | Two finished videos per run: reel **2160 × 3840** and YouTube **3840 × 2160** |
| 🖍️ **Your word, dead-centre** | 23 pages from newspapers, magazines, web articles, a memo and a tabloid finale, with your word always on the exact centre of the frame |
| 🔊 **Optional projector sound** | A fast mechanical rattle, synthesised in code, so there's nothing to license |
| 💻 **Runs everywhere** | macOS, Windows and Linux |
| ✅ **Checks its own work** | Frame count, frame rate, duration and sound, plus a contact sheet of every page |
No templates to buy, no After Effects, no keyframes. Every page is drawn from scratch:
newsprint fibres, creases, ink bleed, marker streaks and film grain.
💬 On Claude.ai
Works on every plan, including Free, in the browser and the desktop app.
1. **Download the skill**. Keep it as a ZIP; don't unzip it.
2. In Claude, open **Settings → Capabilities** and turn on **Code execution and file creation**.
3. Open **Customize → Skills**, click **+**, then **Create skill → Upload a skill**, and choose the ZIP.
4. Start a new chat and type: **make the newspaper highlight video**
Claude asks for your word and whether you want sound, then hands you both 4K videos to download.
> [!NOTE]
> On Team and Enterprise plans, an admin may need to allow skills and code execution first.
💬 On ChatGPT
Skills are in beta on ChatGPT, so menus can move around and availability depends on your plan.
1. **Download the skill**. Keep it as a ZIP.
2. In ChatGPT, open **Skills**, click **Create**, then **Upload from your computer**, and choose the ZIP.
3. In a new chat, type **@paper-animation** or just ask for **the newspaper highlight video**.
💻 In Claude Code
Update later with claude plugin update paper-animation@paper-animation.
Codex, Cursor and other coding agents
or, with the GitHub CLI (v2.90+):
Or unzip the ZIP into the folder where your agent looks for skills.
✍️ Use it
Ask your agent for it in plain words:
It asks you two quick questions, **what word to highlight** and **whether you want sound effects**
(yes or no), then renders both videos. On your computer they land in
~/Downloads/paper-animation/; on Claude.ai and ChatGPT you download them from the chat.
Prefer the terminal?
On Windows, use py instead of python3.
🧰 Requirements
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| 🌐 **On Claude.ai or ChatGPT** | Nothing. It runs in the chat's own sandbox |
| 🐍 **On your computer: Python 3.11+** | From python.org, or brew install python on a Mac |
| 💾 **About 250 MB** | Installed automatically, once, on the first run |