Field noteOct 22, 20261 min read1 source

psychopomp - describe a scene in code and get a motion-graphics video.

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

What changed: Psychopomp adds a Rust/FFmpeg/Metal project for turning scene descriptions in code into motion-graphics videos, distinct from the prior code-based launch-video workflows.

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.

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  1. 1github.com/kitlangton/psychopomp
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