Cardstock Diorama Myth — Design skill for Claude Code

Cardstock Diorama Myth Animation

A Claude Code / Claude.ai **skill** that turns a single request — a myth, a premise, or nothing at all — into a finished, narrated mythic short film in a layered **cut-paper diorama** style: stacked matte cardstock worlds, a strict three-colour palette, exposure that swings, paper-wipe transitions hiding every seam, a storyteller's voiceover, and one assembled MP4.

Built for the **[Unsora](https://tryunsora.com) MCP** — all generation runs on Unsora (`create_image`, `create_video`, `create_voiceover`), and assembly runs locally with **ffmpeg**, giving full control over block windows, voiceover placement, and the mix.

What it makes

Animation-movie storytelling, not an explainer: gods, monsters, heroes, folklore, origin myths and transformations, told in ten-second story beats. The signature look:

• Flat matte cardstock worlds with visible cut edges and soft contact shadows
• A strict three-colour palette and no others, with deliberate exposure swings
• A tiny figure dead-centre of a huge symmetrical set; a top-down concentric "ring" hero shot
• Scenes joined by invisible paper wipes, native paper foley and impact SFX
• A mythic narrator (~12–18 words per block, some blocks deliberately silent)
• Ends by landing on a face

The look is treated as a **specification, not a vibe** — palette, exposure and pacing are numbers, stated in the prompt and then measured against the output with the bundled QC script.

When to use it

Ask for a myth, legend, fable, folktale or fairy-tale short; a cut-paper / papercraft animated story; "tell the story of X" as a video; or say **"run the cardstock diorama myth animation"** — the skill can propose myths itself.

Not for fact-driven explainers with charts and statistics.

Pipeline

Phase	What happens	Tools
S — Story	Use the given myth, or propo