Your free AI art studio: design apps and 20 animation styles.

Part 1 · Set up your studio

What your assistant gets to work with

Twelve free, open-source apps in all. Each one has a command-line program built in, so Claude can open, edit and save real files with it.

• PhotoCraftPhotoshop-styleLayers, masks, filters and real PSD files.
• VectorCraftIllustrator-styleVector shapes and paths, with export.
• DesignCraftInDesign-stylePage layout.
• LightCraftLightroom-stylePhoto library and develop sliders.
• PdfCraftAcrobat-styleEdit, combine, protect and fill out PDFs.
• FilmCraftPremiere-styleVideo editing.
• EffectCraftAfter Effects-styleMotion graphics.
• WordCraftWord-styleDocuments.
• GridCraftExcel-styleSpreadsheets.
• DeckCraftPowerPoint-stylePresentations.
• CADCraftAutoCAD-style2D and 3D drafting.
• SoundCraftPro Tools-styleAudio sessions.

How it works

1. 1

   Download the setup file above.

   One text file (it ends in .md). That's the whole download. You never have to open it yourself.

2. 2

   Open Claude Code and tell it to read the file.

   Say something like: "Read CRAFT-SUITE-SETUP-ALL-IN-ONE.md in my Downloads folder and follow it." It installs and connects every app for you. About 15 minutes, mostly waiting on downloads. Mac or Windows.

3. 3

   Ask for what you need.

   "Make me five sizes of this image." "Combine these into one PDF." You'll see exactly what it did.

What Claude does when you hand it the file

The file is written for Claude, but here it is in plain English so you know exactly what's happening on your computer.

1. It checks your computer type (Mac or Windows) instead of guessing, then runs the matching installer. It can do a dry run first that shows what would happen and changes nothing.
2. It downloads the apps from their makers' official page on GitHub, checks each download's checksum, and connects each one to Claude Code. No admin rights needed, and it's safe to run again later, which also updates the apps.
3. It checks the connection. Every app should report as connected. If any don't, it retries just those.
4. You restart Claude Code once. The new tools only load in a fresh session.
5. It runs a small test on a throwaway file, never on your real art, and tells you plainly what worked and what didn't.

You don't have to install all twelve. Ask Claude for just one or two, like PhotoCraft and PdfCraft, and add the rest later.

Part 2 · Add the 20 animation styles

Teach Claude 20 ways to make your videos move

The second file is a library of 20 animation styles, each one written as a build recipe: the look, how it moves, how to make it, and when it earns its place. Once Claude has read it, you can say "do my hook in kinetic type" or "make the how-it-works part a blueprint" and it builds the video for you.

1. 1Particles
2. 11Retro VHS
3. 2Liquid morph
4. 12Comic book
5. 3Neon glow
6. 13Split-flap
7. 4Y2K chrome
8. 14Hand-drawn
9. 5Kinetic type
10. 15Blueprint
11. 6Paper cutout
12. 16Physics
13. 7Holographic
14. 17Pixel art
15. 8Isometric
16. 18Bauhaus
17. 9ASCII art
18. 19Art deco
19. 10Clay 3D
20. 20Neo-brutalism

How it works

1. 1

   Download the animation styles file above.

   One text file, CLAUDE-ANIMATION-STYLES.md. You never have to open it yourself.

2. 2

   Tell Claude Code to read it.

   Say: "Read CLAUDE-ANIMATION-STYLES.md in my Downloads folder and follow it." It installs the styles so Claude remembers them in every future session, then asks you to restart Claude Code once.

3. 3

   Ask for a video in any style.

   "Make a 10 second hook about my new print in neon glow." Or "pick the best style for this." Claude shows you a preview before anything is finished, and never posts anything for you.

The styles animate text, diagrams and graphics around your real footage and your real art. They don't invent artwork. Claude draws every frame with code and turns it into a normal MP4, using free tools (ffmpeg, Node and Chrome). It checks what you have and asks before installing anything.

Get the free setup files

Straight talk, and how your files stay safe

• These apps are early. Great for drafts, batch jobs and experiments. Not yet a full replacement for daily professional work, and their makers say so too.
• Your originals stay safe. The setup works on copies. Claude puts a copy in a folder called Craft Workspace (inside Documents), opens the copy, and saves results to a separate Output folder, so the master file you care about is never the one being edited.
• Some apps are fenced into that folder, and some can't be. Claude is told to treat the rule as absolute either way: touch only the copies, and write only to Output.
• You need Claude Code (the assistant the whole Stack runs on), a Mac or Windows computer, and up to 2 GB of free space if you install everything.
• The Windows installer is newer and has had less testing. If it hits an error, Claude will show you the exact message and fix it with you.
• The animation styles only make video files. Claude writes code and saves an MP4 in a project folder you choose. It never posts or uploads anything, and it shows you a preview first.
• It's free. No trial, no card. It's the doorway into the rest of the Stack, and the 20 animation styles are built into The System and The Command Center too.

Get the free setup file

Want the business side too?

Start with The Shortlist, the free checklist and the nine tools that do the work. When you want it done step by step, there's The System and The Command Center. You can also see the whole Artist AI Stack.

From Jessica at Dynamic Intuition. A working art business, 14 years in. Not theory.

The Craft Apps are free, open-source software made by their own developers. This page is not affiliated with or endorsed by Adobe, Microsoft or ArtCraft. All product names belong to their owners and are used only to describe what each app is like. The twelve app icons are the apps' own artwork, by the ArtCraft team and the Craft Apps contributors, used under the MIT or Apache 2.0 open-source licenses. The ArtCraft name and logo are trademarks of the ArtCraft Team.