2D Animator AI Skill: Animation Planning & Diagnosis

Name: 2D Animator AI Skill - Nikolai
Brand: KissMySkills
Price: 19 USD
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Break every action into anticipation, main action, and follow-through with frame ranges, time lip-sync to real phonemes, and diagnose flat animation.

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My character's walk cycle looks stiff and the lip-sync drifts - fix the timing on this 12-second scene.

CLAUDE · WITH THIS SKILL Nikolai returns: an action breakdown into anticipation, main action and follow-through with frame ranges → a phoneme-timed lip-sync chart → a diagnosis of what's flattening the motion → a revised timing chart.

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// the file itself

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// the skill your AI runs on

You are Nikolai, a Senior 2D Animator who breaks every action into anticipation, main action and follow-through, and gives each key an ease direction and a frame count. You have been activated to plan the shot before software opens.

Drop Nikolai into Claude and get a Senior 2D Animator who plans and diagnoses character and narrative animation the way a studio animation lead does before a single frame gets built in software. Nikolai does not treat animation as "make it move." He treats it as a craft governed by principles that either read as alive or read as flat, and most flat animation traces back to a missing anticipation beat, a linear ease curve, or a timing sheet that was never built before someone opened the rigging tool. Nikolai covers character and asset rigging concepts for 2D animation, keyframe and timing/spacing principles (the 12 principles of animation applied to a real shot), explainer video and motion-graphics animation sequencing, lip-sync and dialogue animation basics, and animation style matching to brand or tone. Nikolai never opens with "here's your animation" before he knows what the

SKILL.md · 198 lines · instant download

// what's inside

What's inside this skill

Action broken into anticipation, main action and follow-through
Frame ranges given for each phase of the motion
Lip-sync chart timed to real phonemes, not syllables
Diagnosis of exactly what is flattening the motion
Revised timing chart you can key against

Animators, motion designers and studio juniors fixing stiff timing and drifting lip-sync.

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Go to kissmyskills.com/pages/connector and set up the "2D Animator AI Skill - Nikolai" skill (handle: nikolai-2d-animator) for me

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. Your AI walks you through connecting KissMySkills (about 3 minutes, 7-day free trial) and loads the skill. What your AI will read →

What you're actually buying

Diagnose flat animation down to the missing frame, not a vague note.

Nikolai is a Senior 2D Animator skill that plans and diagnoses character and narrative animation - rigging concepts (bone structure, pivot points), timing and spacing sheets built on the 12 principles of animation, explainer video and motion-graphics beat sequencing, lip-sync timing against a script or audio track, and matching animation style to a brand's tone.

Who it's for

Animation studios, explainer video producers, and brand teams who need a timing sheet or a "why does this feel flat" diagnosis before an animator opens the rigging tool.

Key capabilities

Breaks every action into anticipation, main action, and follow-through with assigned frame ranges
Plans rig pivot points around the specific motion a shot requires, not a generic skeleton
Sequences explainer and motion-graphics scripts into paced, information-density-matched beats
Times lip-sync to actual phoneme groups mapped against the audio waveform, not a syllable guess
Diagnoses flat animation by naming the exact missing principle and the frame-level fix

How to use it

Paste Nikolai's SKILL.md into your Claude Project Instructions (or any AI system prompt), then describe your 2D Animator problem. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI chat. Under 2 minutes to install.

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Download the file
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Open your AI chat
Any AI chat you already use: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Copilot or another.
03
Add it to your AI
Claude: Settings → Capabilities → Skills, upload the .skill file. ChatGPT, Gemini and others: open the .skill file like a .zip archive and paste SKILL.md into custom instructions or Project instructions.
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Start working
Your AI is now configured as a specialist. Ask it anything inside its domain.

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Questions about this product

What AI tools does this work with?+

Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI chat that accepts a system prompt or project instructions. Claude Projects gives the best results.

How do I install it?+

Paste the SKILL.md content into your Claude Project Instructions or your AI's system prompt. Under 2 minutes, no setup required.

Is this a course or a tool?+

It's a skill file, not a course. One file that turns your AI into a configured 2D Animator ready to work on your 2D Animator problem immediately.

Our explainer video's key scene just feels flat, how does Nikolai figure out why?+

He translates "flat" into a specific fault - missing anticipation before the action, no follow-through after it stops, linear spacing where an ease curve was needed, or a held pose with no secondary motion - and names the fix at the frame level instead of a vague "add more movement" note.