Project · AI animated mythology reels

A story idea in, an animated reel out

How I make 2D animated mythology reels with Claude Code. Every character is drawn in code, and every action lands on its spoken word.

Nov 2026 · 3 min read

Sanjeevni is the first one: Hanuman's race to bring back the herb that saves Lakshman, told in 37 seconds with a Hindi voiceover and Hinglish captions. There was no animator and no AI image tool. Claude Code wrote the script, made the voice, drew the characters and animated every scene.

37 sreel length
8scenes
4characters drawn in code
0AI-generated images
// Watch with sound on.

The problem

Animation takes days, and AI video can't keep Hanuman the same

Mythology stories travel well on Reels, and short videos are how I plan to grow Jai Hanuman, the devotional app I'm building. But a 2D animated reel usually means an animator and a few days for every story.

AI video tools are faster, but Hanuman's face, crown and colours change from one shot to the next, and the story stops feeling like one story.

Why I built it

Could one person make a reel that looks hand-animated?

I wanted to post stories regularly without a studio: a real script, a natural Hindi voice, characters that look the same in every scene, and actions that land exactly on the word that describes them. I started from Rahul's (@SocialCanvasbyRahul) playbook for 2D mythology reels and turned it into a pipeline that Claude Code runs end to end.

How it works

Five steps, run by Claude Code

I give Claude Code a story and approve two things along the way: the scene plan and the character designs. It runs everything else on my laptop.

  1. You

    A story idea. You approve the scenes and the characters.

  2. Claude Code

    Runs every step below, start to finish.

  3. Script Claude

    About 80 words of Hinglish in eight scenes: a hook, the story, a moral. Each line marks one key word, where that scene's big action will land.

    01Ek chhoti si booti dhoondhne gaye Hanuman... aur poora pahaad utha laaye!

    06Hanuman muskuraaye... aur poora parvat hi utha liya!

    08Irada pakka ho, toh pahaad bhi halka lagta hai. Jai Bajrangbali!

    // Three of the eight lines. The underlined word is where the action lands.

  4. Voice Kokoro · Whisper

    Kokoro, an open-source voice model, reads the Hindi script on my laptop. Every word gets a timestamp, checked with Whisper, so the animation knows exactly when each word is spoken.

    The 36-second voiceover drawn as a waveform, with red markers on the eight key words: pahaad, baan, Sanjeevni, chhalaang, hazaaron, utha, khul and Bajrangbali
    // The voiceover. Red marks: the eight words where each scene's action lands.

  5. Characters Python · SVG

    Python draws Hanuman, Lakshman, Vaidya Sushen and the Dronagiri mountain as SVG code: shapes, not pixels. They look identical in every scene and stay sharp at any size.

    The four characters side by side: Hanuman with his mace, Lakshman with a bow, Vaidya Sushen pointing up, and the green Dronagiri mountain with glowing herbs
    // The whole cast, drawn by the reel's own code.

  6. Animation GSAP · HyperFrames

    Each scene is a web page animated with GSAP, timed so the action hits its key word: the mountain lifts on “utha”, Hanuman leaps on “chhalaang”. The captions light up word by word.

    Scene 1: Hanuman holds the mountain overhead
    pahaad
    Scene 3: Vaidya Sushen points to the glowing Sanjeevni herb
    Sanjeevni
    Scene 4: Hanuman leaps over the Himalaya
    chhalaang
    Scene 6: Hanuman lifts the whole mountain
    utha
    Scene 8: Hanuman stands in front of a sunrise
    Bajrangbali

  7. Mix + render FFmpeg · HyperFrames

    The voice is mixed with a background drone and sound effects, both also made in code. HyperFrames films the page frame by frame in Chrome, and out comes a vertical MP4, ready for Reels.

What's next

More stories, with the cast already drawn

The characters and every step are reusable, so the next story starts at the script. I'm also writing the whole workflow up as a step-by-step PDF: the tools, the prompts, the setup and the mistakes to skip.

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