# Cinematic & short films: agent skills for cinematic AI video and short films

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Cinematic AI footage, short films, trailers and multi-shot scenes made with Seedance, Kling and Veo. 29 skills for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, by type: workflows take a brief to a finished video, effects and styles change how it looks, prompts and guides teach the agent the craft, models run the generation.

## Use cases

- [AI short film or series](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/short-film.md): A multi-shot story with consistent characters: script, storyboard, previz, shots, edit.
- [Animate a photo](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/animate-photo.md): A still photo brought to life: a subtle smile, blink, camera move or full scene motion.
- [Change something inside a video](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/video-edit-ai.md): Swap a product, restyle a scene, change lighting or the look of an existing clip while keeping the motion.

## Skills (29)

### Prompts (5)

- [fal Cinematography](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/fal-cinematography.md) — fal: Direct cinematic stills and video: shot language, camera moves, lenses, lighting, grade and film texture.
- [FLUX 3 Cinematic Inserts](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/flux-3-cinematic-inserts.md) — Black Forest Labs: Write FLUX 3 prompts for standalone cinematic shots: shot craft, camera, continuity and review.
- [Video Shotcraft](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/video-shotcraft.md) — Vincent Wei: 124 shot recipe cards and a tested Remotion template for cinematic product promos built from real UI screenshots.
- [AI Film Director (Visual Skills)](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/visual-skills-video-director.md) — Serge Shima: AI film director for video prompts: dramaturgy first (Murch, blocking, montage), then exact syntax per model.
- [Higgsfield Prompt Skill (O-Side Media)](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/higgsfield-prompt-skill-oside.md) — O-Side Media: Independent 36-skill prompt pack for Higgsfield: model picks, camera presets, Soul ID, Cinema Studio, Seedance 2.5.

### Effects (1)

- [fal Fan Cam](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/fal-fan-cam.md) — fal: Put someone into a live sports broadcast: a realistic fan-cam cutaway with scoreboard and channel overlays.

### Guides (6)

- [fal Storytelling](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/fal-storytelling.md) — fal: Plan multi-shot stories: storyboards, shot lists, first-to-last-frame chains and continuity across scenes.
- [FLUX 3 Keyframes & Continuation](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/flux-3-keyframes-continuation.md) — Black Forest Labs: Build FLUX 3 video from supplied stills or footage: keyframe image-to-video and continuation chains.
- [Drama Skills (ZenStory)](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/zenstory-drama-skills.md) — ZenStory AI: Short-drama skills that beat a no-skill control in blind tests: script, assets, storyboard, keyframe and video prompts.
- [Screenwriting Skills](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/screenwriting-skills.md) — Terry Jia: 26 screenwriting and dramaturgy skills, from story structure to writing in the style of Ozu, Chekhov or Succession.
- [Emma Short-Drama Writing Skills](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/emma-screenwriting.md) — Emma Wang, beta: Short-drama writing kit (hooks, outlines, dialogue, trims, US localization) that beat a no-skill control in blind tests.
- [Short Drama Skill Finder](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/short-drama-skill-finder.md) — Underleveled Builder: Picks short-drama and manju skills from a hand-checked list of 90+ projects by stage, video model and agent.

### Workflows (5)

- [Previz to Seedance](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-previz.md) — varg, beta: Plan multi-shot AI video before paying: story, anchor sheets, a three.js grey-box previz, then a Seedance v2v pack.
- [fal Recipes](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/fal-recipes.md) — fal: Follow proven multi-step fal pipelines for commercials, product shots, characters, lip-sync and try-on.
- [Shuohao Short-Drama Skills](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/shuohao-short-drama.md) — Wesley Wang: Seven chained skills from novel to AI short drama: characters, outline, art bible, script, staging, storyboard.
- [AI Short Drama Studio](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/ai-short-drama-studio.md) — Hao0321: Greenlight score, series bible, episode compiler and production pack for serialized AI short dramas and manju.
- [Procedural 3D Story](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/karpathy-3d-story.md) — chencheng (云谦), beta: Turn a myth or book into a seeded, multi-chapter procedural three.js film in one scene.html, audited frame by frame.

### Models & tools (12)

- [Higgsfield Generate](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/higgsfield-generate.md) — Higgsfield: Generate images, video, 3D and audio across 30+ models, plus ad videos and virality scoring, from one CLI.
- [Gemini Omni Flash](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/gemini-omni-flash-api.md) — Google Gemini: Generate and edit video with Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: text-to-video, first/last frames, extensions, edits.
- [Melies](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/melies.md) — Melies: Generate images, video, movie posters and thumbnails from the terminal with 148 AI actors and style flags.
- [AI Video Generation](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-ai-video-generation.md) — inference.sh: Generate video with 40+ models from one CLI: Veo 3.1, Seedance 2.0, HappyHorse, Wan, Grok and more.
- [Google Veo](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-google-veo.md) — inference.sh: Generate cinematic video from text with Google Veo 3.1 and Veo 3.1 Fast.
- [HappyHorse](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-happyhorse.md) — inference.sh: Generate and edit video with Alibaba HappyHorse 1.0: text, image and reference-to-video plus video edits.
- [Image to Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-image-to-video.md) — inference.sh: Animate stills into video: pick the right model, then prompt motion and camera moves that hold together.
- [P-Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-p-video.md) — inference.sh: Generate fast 720p/1080p video with audio using Pruna P-Video and Wan text- and image-to-video.
- [Seedance 2.0](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-seedance.md) — inference.sh: Make 4–15 s videos with synced audio in Seedance 2.0: text, image or reference-to-video up to 1080p.
- [Runway Media](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/runway-media.md) — Runway: Generate and edit images, video, music, speech and sound effects from chat with Runway's MCP tools.
- [Runway Studio Skills](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/runway-studio-skills.md) — Runway: Run Runway's API from Python scripts: text, image and video-to-video, character performance, images, TTS.
- [FLUX 3 Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/flux-3-video.md) — Black Forest Labs: Route any FLUX 3 video job to the right specialist: diagnosis, direction, audio or execution.