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cutan

Cut-out animation for an: rigged characters, faces and expressions, lip-sync, swap sets and views, impacts, and cut-out styles, as a genre package on the an core.

pip install "an[cutout]"      # an + the stage + cutan
an character new maya --offline

an finds cutan through the an.genres entry point and loads it with an.genres.load() (the CLI and an.load(project) do). The scene format, rendering and the asset library are an's; see its README.

What is here

cutan registers with the core:

  • the character entity kind and the play and expression actions, the [emotion] dialogue sugar and the semantic checks that go with them (cutan.genre, cutan.characters, cutan.expression);
  • the rig, face, viseme, blink, gaze and swap-pose compile passes over the an.stage compiler (cutan.compile), and the mouth and eye visuals of the stage runtime (cutan/runtime/visuals.js);
  • the lip-sync providers offline, rhubarb and whisper (cutan.audio);
  • locomotion, speech, blink and turn methods with their requirements and defaults, and the cut-out vocabulary;
  • the an character … and an impacts … command namespaces;
  • the style lint (python -m cutan.verify.style) and the style specs of the cutan-style skill.

The cut-out bench corpus (misc/bench/), examples/ and the demo gallery (misc/demos/) live here too; cutan.bench.run_bench() runs the corpus through an's bench runner.

Names that never change

Moving the code renamed nothing that is stored. Scenes keep renderer: cutout, the genre keeps its slug cutout_animation, character descriptors keep their document kind and version, and asset ids keep their character. prefix. These names are in cutan/__init__.py. The old an.characters, an.expression, an.impacts, an.audio.offline_lipsync-style import paths still work in an, with a MovedModuleWarning.

Where data lives

The genre's asset library and agent-made projects live under ~/.local/share/cutan by default. Set CUTAN_HOME to move them. The core's own library (voices, sounds, fonts) stays under an's root, and a project reads both as one search path.

Working on cutan

Read CLAUDE.md. In short: pip install -e . --no-deps next to an editable an, then pytest. The tests that render need a headless browser (playwright install chromium) and ffmpeg.

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