What problem does it solve? Producing a 15-17 minute animated geopolitics video involves many fragile steps—scripting, voice generation, lip-sync alignment, choreography, rendering, mixing, and publishing—and this Skill encodes the entire Paper Trail channel pipeline so each episode is produced consistently at near-zero credit cost. ## Core Features & Use Cases - End-to-end episode pipeline: Covers interrogation and scriptwriting, ElevenLabs voice generation via fal.ai, whisper/fal timestamp alignment, plane-based choreography, frame checking, audio mixing, and final delivery. - Custom render engine: Uses a deterministic cut-paper animation engine (motor v4) with maps, rigs, props, HUD layers, word-by-word subtitles, and rhythm auditing (ritmo.py) against measured retention benchmarks. - Shorts production: Generates 3-5 vertical 1080x1920 shorts with exclusive scripts per episode, reusing the episode's art assets. - Use Case: When asked to produce a new episode on a geopolitical topic, the Skill runs demand validation, writes the script with primary sources, generates voice and choreography, renders the video, and prepares the upload package. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to produce a new Paper Trail episode on a chosen geopolitics topic following the pipeline in this skill.
