Persian Motion Director — effect skill for text & titles
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Persian/RTL kinetic type done right: HarfBuzz-shaped letters, kashida, unbroken joins, font loaded before render.
- Type: Effect · Text & titles
- Slug:
persian-motion-director - Status: beta
- Publisher: atmirrr (community)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/atmirrr/persian-motion-director
- Works in: Claude Code
- Requires: Node.js with Remotion 4.0.530 (pinned in assets/remotion/package.json), Python 3 with uharfbuzz and fonttools for shape_persian.py, A native Persian reader to sign off on copy
- Cost: Free — renders locally (Remotion needs a company license for for-profit teams above 3 employees)
- Adoption: 5 installs, 147 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)
What it does
Directs motion design with correct Persian/Farsi and right-to-left typography in Remotion or plain web code. Its rules ban per-letter boxes and per-letter fades for joined script, pad masks for Persian ascenders and dots, set dir, lang and <bdi> correctly, replace letter-spacing with kashida, and load the font with FontFace + delayRender so Chrome never falls back silently. Tooling covers HarfBuzz shaping to SVG outlines split into letter bodies, dots and connected groups, a zero-width-joiner splitter for per-letter animation, and a linter for Persian copy and layout code; eight technique sketches (one camera, beat cuts, line boil, dots-last, kashida) run in a browser or through Remotion. It ships Vazirmatn (OFL) with its license text. The repo is three weeks old with a single-day commit history, so it is listed as beta.
Use when
- Motion graphics or kinetic type that contains Persian, Farsi, Arabic-script or RTL text
- Persian looks broken, disconnected or clipped in a render
- Per-letter or per-dot animation of Persian words
- A motion piece looks like a slideshow or 'AI-made'
Not for
- Latin-only kinetic type (use kinetic-typography)
- Per-letter Nastaliq animation: the joiner split loses its cascade, animate by word or line
Install
- Claude Code:
git clone https://github.com/atmirrr/persian-motion-director ~/.claude/skills/persian-motion-director
Example output
https://skills.varg.ai/previews/persian-motion-director.mp4 — README technique 01 'One camera, no cuts': a Persian (RTL) product promo with correctly shaped Farsi type, scenes on one strip moving right to left with whip pans and parallax. Full 7 s loop, converted from GIF. (credit: atmirrr (persian-motion-director), https://github.com/atmirrr/persian-motion-director#readme)
More text & titles skills
- Canopy Part Title: Leaves sweep across the frame and part to reveal your headline: a 12-second 1080p title block.
- Code Slice Hero: A tiled headline flips cell by cell under a sweeping depth field to reveal a second line: an 8-second hero.
- Glass Shard Title: Glass shards fly in through fog and tile themselves into your headline, then fly out past the camera.
- Wireframe Portal Title: A wireframe portal bursts open, the title comes through, then its letters swap into a second phrase.
- PixiJS Text: Render and animate text in PixiJS v8: canvas Text, BitmapText, HTMLText and per-character SplitText.
- Kinetic Typography: Kinetic type for web and video: line, word or char splits, mask and blur reveals, variable-font motion, frozen-frame QA.
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