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title: "psychopomp - describe a scene in code and get a motion-graphics video."
description: "Psychopomp is a public, MIT-licensed Rust project for creating motion-graphics videos from code."
retrieval_nugget: "Psychopomp is a public, MIT-licensed Rust project for creating motion-graphics videos from code."
published_at: "2026-10-22"
updated_at: "2026-10-22"
record_date: "2026-10-22"
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topics: ["evals","context-engineering"]
entities: ["Psychopomp","Rust","FFmpeg","Metal"]
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# psychopomp - describe a scene in code and get a motion-graphics video.

## Retrieval answer

Psychopomp is a public, MIT-licensed Rust project for creating motion-graphics videos from code.

Psychopomp is a public, MIT-licensed Rust project for creating motion-graphics videos from code. A Rust Scene Program describes scene elements, timing, camera moves, overlays, and effects; the project writes a Scene Plan in JSON and can render it to video or present it interactively.

The repository says it renders 1080p60 video with motion blur. Its examples include product explainers, pull-request walkthroughs, diagrams, charts, text surfaces, footage, narration, and generated sound effects. It also ships two agent skills, `psychopomp` and `explainer-motion`, which can be installed elsewhere with `npx skills add kitlangton/psychopomp`.

The documented local workflow requires a recent Rust toolchain, a GPU, and FFmpeg with `libx264`. The authors describe the software as an early, heavily vibe-coded prototype tested on macOS with Metal. The source does not establish performance across platforms, output quality under production workloads, or suitability for production use.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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