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gif-sticker-makerby MiniMax

GIF Sticker Maker Skill.

A Claude Code and Codex skill for motion and video: turns photos of people, pets, objects, or logos into four captioned GIF stickers.

  • Motion & Video
  • GIF
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--- name: gif-sticker-maker description: Convert photos (people, pets, objects, logos) into 4 animated GIF stickers with captions. Use when: user wants to create cartoon stickers, GIF expressions, emoji packs, animated avatars, or convert photos to Funko Pop / Pop Mart blind box style animations. Triggers: sticker, GIF, cartoon, emoji, expression pack, avatar animation. --- ## Style Spec ## Prerequisites ## Workflow ## Default Actions ## Rules
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01 What it does

What the gif-sticker-maker Skill Does in Claude Code and Codex

Summary, workflow and outputs, all read from the skill's SKILL.md.

From the SKILL.mdRead 2026-09-14 · not a recorded run

In the Skill's Own Terms

A four-sticker pipeline that turns a user photo — a person, pet, object or logo — into four animated GIF stickers in Funko Pop / Pop Mart blind box style, rendered to look like C4D / Octane 3D figurines on a white studio background with black captions with white outlines at the bottom. The four defaults are happy waving (hi), laughing hard (laugh), crying tears (cry) and heart gesture (love).

Captions can be user-supplied, 1–3 words, or pulled from a multilingual captions table matched to the user's detected language. It runs three scripted stages — MiniMax image generation, image-to-video animation, and mp4-to-GIF conversion — and finishes with a deliver_assets block.

What it produces

  • Four animated GIF stickers in Funko Pop / Pop Mart style, the declared output format and count.
  • Four static 1:1 sticker images written to the output folder, one per default action.
  • Four intermediate MP4 clips, one per sticker, produced from the static images.
  • A final deliver_assets block listing the four GIF paths, placed last in the response.
See the example prompt ↗

How It Works

  1. 01
    Settle the Captions

    The agent asks in the user's own language whether captions should be custom or default.

  2. 02
    Generate Four Static Stickers

    The photo is classified as person, animal, object or logo, then four 1:1 images are generated from the image prompt template with {action} and {caption} filled in.

  3. 03
    Animate Each Image into Video

    Each PNG goes through the video script in image-to-video mode using the video prompt template, producing one MP4 per sticker.

  4. 04
    Convert Videos to GIF

    A single call to the conversion script takes all four MP4s and writes a GIF next to each one.

  5. 05
    Deliver in a Fixed Order

    The reply is a one-line status, then the deliver_assets block listing the four GIFs, with nothing written after it.

02 Find your fit

When to Use the gif-sticker-maker Skill

Use the gif-sticker-maker skill in Claude Code or Codex when the job is motion and video of this kind. Fit and limits below are taken from the skill's own file.

Good Fit

  • A user hands over a photo of a person and wants the resulting figurine to keep that person's actual facial likeness.
  • Someone wants cartoon stickers, GIF expressions, emoji packs or an animated avatar made from a photo.
  • Converting a photo into a Funko Pop / Pop Mart blind box style animation.
  • Photos of pets, objects or logos are in scope alongside people, with the subject described in words.

Know the Boundaries

  • Facial likeness transfer does not apply to animals, objects or logos — those rely on text description instead.
  • Mixing languages across the four captions is explicitly forbidden.

What to Provide

  • A Photo and Caption LanguageProvide the person, pet, object or logo photo. Choose the caption language and either four short custom captions of 1–3 words or the language-matched defaults.
  • Configured Generation ToolsThe workflow needs the bundled Python dependencies, ffmpeg and MiniMax API access. Configure the API key privately in the environment; do not paste it into your task prompt.

03 Inside the skill

Rules the gif-sticker-maker Skill Gives Claude Code and Codex

8 concrete instructions, defaults and limits the SKILL.md sets for the agent — the part of the file that changes the result.

  1. Set up All Three Prerequisites First

    A Python venv with requirements.txt installed, an exported MINIMAX_API_KEY, and ffmpeg on PATH must all exist before any generation.

  2. One Language per Run

    Captions must be pulled from the captions.md table matching the user's language column, and languages are never mixed across the four stickers.

  3. Write Image Prompts in English Only

    Regardless of the user's language, image prompts stay in English; only the caption text itself is localized.

  4. Subject Reference Is for People Only

    The --subject-ref flag preserves facial likeness but the API only supports type=character, so for animals, objects and logos it must be omitted and the subject described in text.

  5. Run the Four Calls Concurrently

    Both the image generation step and the image-to-video step treat their four calls as independent and run them in parallel.

  6. Keep Custom Captions to 1–3 Words

    When the user supplies their own captions they should be short, and the animated action is matched automatically to the caption's meaning.

  7. Deliver_assets Closes the Reply

    The deliver_assets block must be the last thing in the response, with no text following it.

  8. Localize per Detected Language

    The agent detects the user's language and all outputs follow it.

04 Put it to work

Install gif-sticker-maker in Claude Code or Codex

One npx skills add command, then a first task in your agent and a checklist for the result.

Add gif-sticker-maker to Claude Code, Codex or Your Agent

Run in your project; the installer asks which agent to add it to.

Terminal
npx skills add https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/skills --skill gif-sticker-maker

Generic skills CLI form for skills/gif-sticker-maker/SKILL.md; the repository may document its own path.

Give the Skill a First Motion and Video Task

Written in the skill's own terms; replace the bracketed parts with your material.

Starter prompt
Here is a photo of [my dog]. Make four animated GIF stickers from it in the Funko Pop / Pop Mart blind box style, with the white background and the captions at the bottom. Use the default captions for [language]. Keep the four standard actions: happy waving, laughing hard, crying tears, and heart gesture.

Editorial starter prompt based on the source instructions; not a recorded or tested run.

Check the First Result

Before accepting the output, look for these in the transcript and the files:

  • All four GIF files are present and animate correctly.
  • Each caption is readable and uses the chosen language consistently.
  • Custom captions match the requested words; default captions follow the source table.
  • People use the source-reference path; pet, object and logo results must be checked for likeness because the source relies on text descriptions for those subjects.

In OpenDesign check the current skill library for gif-sticker-maker. The catalog’s earlier bundling check is historical, not a guarantee that this version is preinstalled.

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05 Open source, traceable

Source, License and Verification

Where this page's facts come from, and when they were last checked.

Author
MiniMax
Repository
github.com/MiniMax-AI/skills Branch main
Skill file
skills/gif-sticker-maker/SKILL.md Content checksum recorded at verification; commit 60aaae5
License
MIT From LICENSE; SKILL.md says “MIT”.
Repository stars
13,547 GitHub snapshot taken 2026-09-14 for the whole MiniMax-AI/skills repository, which contains 6 skills in this catalog. Not a rating or usage count for gif-sticker-maker.
Verified by OpenDesign
2026-09-14 Source file, path, license text and star count were checked. Bundled in OpenDesign main (checked 2026-08-28); a live run has not been recorded on this page.

Inside the SKILL.md

  1. Style SpecThe locked look: blind box figurine, C4D/Octane quality, white background, outlined caption at bottom.
  2. PrerequisitesThree setup requirements — venv with dependencies, MINIMAX_API_KEY, ffmpeg — that block generation if absent.
  3. WorkflowComments steps 0 to 4: collect captions, generate images, animate, convert to GIF, deliver.
  4. Default ActionsThe four built-in stickers with their filename IDs and animations.
  5. RulesLanguage detection, caption sourcing, English prompts, and the closing deliver_assets constraint.
The Skill's Own Description
“Convert photos (people, pets, objects, logos) into 4 animated GIF stickers with captions. Use when: user wants to create cartoon stickers, GIF expressions, emoji packs, animated avatars, or convert photos to Funko Pop / Pop Mart blind box style animations. Triggers: sticker, GIF, cartoon, emoji, expression pack, avatar animation.”

Front-matter description from SKILL.md. The full file is about 4,991 characters. Read the full file on GitHub.

GIF Sticker Maker

Run gif-sticker-maker on a Real Motion and Video Task.

The gif-sticker-maker skill ships inside OpenDesign. Download the app, pick the skill in Plugins → Skills, paste the prompt above, and read the plan before the result.

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Terminal
npx skills add https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/skills --skill gif-sticker-maker