rotoscope

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By melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (GitHub) · coding · 30 stars · scanned at commit 677e798

Drawing-by-drawing copy of a reference animation clip: decode it into distinct drawings, trace each to vector paths, render them through the ink.js brush engine, measure each against its source, and fit brush overrides until every drawing passes. Use when: 'rotoscope this', 'trace this clip', 'copy this animation one to one', 'replicate this video exactly', 'match the reference frame by frame', 'measure the replica against the source'. Not for an original film or a style study without a referen…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this. It runs automatically when the plugin is installed. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 18 places.

plugins/animation/skills/rotoscope/scripts/regress.py, line 56return subprocess.run([sys.executable, str(PLUGIN / 'scripts/render.py'), str(scene), str(out), '--fps', '24',
plugins/animation/skills/rotoscope/scripts/regress.py, line 111r = subprocess.run([sys.executable, '-c', code], cwd=d, env=env, capture_output=True, text=True)
plugins/animation/skills/rotoscope/scripts/test_regress.py, line 25r = subprocess.run([sys.executable, str(HERE / 'regress.py'), '--synthetic', str(Path(tmp) / 'work')],

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plugins/animation/scripts/pydeps.py, line 139r = subprocess.run([sys.executable, '-S', '-P', '-c', 'import ' + ', '.join(probe)],
plugins/animation/scripts/pydeps.py, line 178r = subprocess.run(
plugins/animation/scripts/pydeps.py, line 184except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
plugins/animation/scripts/pydeps.py, line 251code = subprocess.run([sys.executable, '-S', *script_args], env=_env(target)).returncode
plugins/animation/scripts/pydeps.py, line 290return subprocess.run([path, '-I', '-c', probe], env=_foreign_env(), capture_output=True).returncode == 0
plugins/animation/scripts/pydeps.py, line 303r = subprocess.run([launcher, '-0p'], env=_foreign_env(), capture_output=True, text=True, errors='replace')
plugins/animation/scripts/pydeps.py, line 329return subprocess.run([chosen, str(Path(__file__).resolve()), *argv],
plugins/animation/scripts/render.py, line 90r = subprocess.run(['node', str(HERE / 'capture.mjs'), *pw, url, str(out), *sel, str(workers)],
plugins/animation/scripts/render.py, line 91stdout=subprocess.PIPE, text=True)
plugins/animation/scripts/render.py, line 114p = subprocess.Popen(['ffmpeg', '-v', 'error', '-y', '-f', 'rawvideo', '-pix_fmt', 'bgr24', '-s', f'{w}x{h}',
plugins/animation/scripts/render.py, line 115'-framerate', f'{fps:g}', '-i', '-', *FORMATS[fmt], str(out)], stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
plugins/animation/hooks/exec-bash.mjs, line 111import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
plugins/animation/hooks/hooks.json, line 9"command": "sh \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/node-or-skip.sh\" \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/exec-bash.mjs\" \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/install-python-deps.sh\
plugins/animation/hooks/install-python-deps.test.sh, line 373chroot "$nr" /bin/bash -c "$1"
plugins/animation/hooks/install-python-deps.test.sh, line 393if ! unshare -rm bash -c "$(declare -f drive_case); WORK='$WORK'; drive_case 'OSTYPE=$ostype CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA=/c/data PATH=/c/bin:/usr/bin:/bin bash /c/plugin

Connects to the internet

The author does not mention this.

Found in 4 places.

plugins/animation/skills/rotoscope/scripts/roto.js, line 11const ix = await (await fetch(`${DIR}/index.json`)).json(); // {w, h, duration, drawings: [[k, pts, t1], ...]}
plugins/animation/skills/rotoscope/scripts/roto.js, line 12const PER = q.get('brushes') ? await (await fetch(q.get('brushes'))).json() : {};
plugins/animation/skills/rotoscope/scripts/roto.js, line 15const load = k => cache.get(k) || cache.set(k, fetch(`${DIR}/d${String(k).padStart(3, '0')}.json`).then(r => r.json())).get(k);

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plugins/animation/skills/rotoscope/scripts/roto.js, line 23export const BRUSH = { ...await (await fetch('brush.json')).json(), ...JSON.parse(q.get('brush') || '{}') };

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this. It runs automatically when the plugin is installed.

Found in 3 places.

plugins/animation/scripts/pydeps.py, line 185raise Broken(f'pip install did not finish in {PIP_TIMEOUT_S} s')
plugins/animation/scripts/pydeps.py, line 192raise Broken(f'pip install --require-hashes failed: {tail}{hint}')
plugins/animation/hooks/install-python-deps.test.sh, line 152"$out" == *'not installed; '* && "$out" == *'pip install --require-hashes failed'* &&

Changes files outside its own folder

The author does not mention this. It runs automatically when the plugin is installed.

Found in 1 place.

plugins/animation/hooks/install-python-deps.test.sh, line 393if ! unshare -rm bash -c "$(declare -f drive_case); WORK='$WORK'; drive_case 'OSTYPE=$ostype CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA=/c/data PATH=/c/bin:/usr/bin:/bin bash /c/plugin

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'rotoscope' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'rotoscope' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named rotoscope already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '677e7988f432dacb5e2d4df2b124f96da8e8f9f3' -- 'plugins/animation/skills/rotoscope' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/animation/skills/rotoscope' ~/.agents/skills/'rotoscope' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'rotoscope' ~/.claude/skills/'rotoscope' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-09	`677e798`	65
2026-11-07	`81c7244`	65