Pop-up Book Studio
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Pop-up Book Studio
Claude makes a paper pop-up book Short about any subject: 5 to 8 places open out of the spine as cut-paper layers, each with one checked fact, every frame drawn in code.
Download the skillpopup-book-studio.zip · 2.8 MBFree, MIT licence. Works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Install in 4 steps
- 1
Unzip it. Inside popup-book-studio-kit is a folder called popup-book-studio (the one with SKILL.md). Move that folder into your Claude Code skills folder:
Mac / Linux~/.claude/skills/Windows%USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\ - 2
Make an empty folder for your book and open Claude Code in it.
- 3
Ask for a book:
Any subject with 5 to 8 places or things, or say "you pick". The first run installs the free tools by itself.make a pop-up book about the solar system - 4
Answer its two questions (the places and a cover title). Claude checks the facts, draws the book and shows you a contact sheet with the sources. Say go, and it renders both cuts on your CPU and runs the checks.
What it makes
Extreme Earth. 31 seconds, the skill's own test run: one request in a fresh Claude Code session, six places, every fact checked against two sources, rendered on the CPU.
- A paper book on a wooden table that opens like a real pop-up book: each scene fans out of the spine as its page turns and folds back in as the next one comes over
- Every place in 8 to 14 cut-paper layers with real depth: clouds sway on wires, a sun turns, water slides, flags flutter
- One checked fact per place on a hand-lettered tag, with a sources file (two sources for every number)
- A paper plane that flies through every spread, a music-box tune, a swish on every page turn and a pop as each scene locks open
- Checks before it's done: black frames, frozen frames, one-frame flicker, both files against the rendered frames, loudness
- A 1080x1920 master for Shorts, Reels and TikTok, a 7:8 cut for X under 10 MB, a cover and a contact sheet
You need
- A Claude subscription (Claude Code comes with Pro and Max)
- Python 3.10 or newer
- Any normal computer. No graphics card, no API keys (about 300 MB of free tools, installed once; 290 MB more only if you have no Chrome or Edge)
Time
About 1.5 to 2.5 hours for a new book, almost all of it Claude's work. The render is about 25 minutes on a 12-core desktop.
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