create-cartoon-music-video

Merged from: skills/molecules/create-cartoon-music-video/SKILL.md + skills/molecules/music-video-ad/SKILL.md (the advisory flagged the latter as a literal duplicate; both share the Coinbase "Bet on anything" lineage). The cartoon-specialized rules sit on top of the generic music-video-ad recipe; the generic format is preserved in ## Variants near the end.

Originally validated in content-goose at clients/coinbase/video-01-music-video-debut/. Adapt paths to your project.

Purpose

Encode the style + recipe for crafted-animation music-video ads where:

The song carries the script — lyrics + vocals replace any VO or narrator.
Every visual is generated via image-to-video AI in a single locked hand-crafted aesthetic (felt, yarn, clay, paper, painted, etc.).
A locked character anchors 60%+ of shots so the cuts read as one continuous animation.
Cuts land on the song's bar grid — hard cuts, beat-locked, no soft transitions.
Word-burst captions burn in mid-frame with bold-italic accents on hook words.

This molecule wraps video-orchestrator/orchestrator (sequencing) AND molecules/music-video-ad (general music-video format). It adds the crafted-aesthetic tooling stack + the prompting rules + the content-filter fallback that we learned the hard way on the Coinbase debut.

If the format is "song-is-the-script BUT live-action talking head + b-roll", use molecules/music-video-ad directly. If the format is "narrator VO + cartoon scenes", use molecules/create-narrated-comic-strip-video. This molecule is specifically for AI-generated crafted/animated music-video ads.