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manic — animation language
Turn a few lines of code into explainer videos
manic is a tiny text language for animations. Describe the shapes and what happens over time — no timeline, no keyframes — and it renders a smooth MP4. Built for math, algorithm geometry & CS explainers. Write and render right in your browser
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Anish, maker of manic.
I kept wanting to make little animated explainers — a function curve, a geometry construction, a shape gliding across the screen — but every tool meant timelines, keyframes, or wrestling a video editor. So I built a tiny language, on top of a real 2D animation engine, instead.
ou write two things: the cast (named shapes) and the script (what happens over time). manic renders a smooth, glowing MP4 — deterministically, the same every run
manic
title("Hello");
canvas("16:9");
circle(sun, (640, 360), 90);
color(sun, cyan);
show(sun, 0.6);
It's a general-purpose 2D animation language. Today the math and geometry kits are the most built-out — function plots, axes, vectors, olympiad constructions — and it grows through pluggable kits, so new topics keep coming.
Try it in 30 seconds (no install): open the playground, click Examples, pick one, hit Render → download the MP4. The editor has live highlighting, error-checking, autocomplete, and an AI assistant that writes manic for you.
Still early — I'd love your feedback: what would you animate? What's confusing? Thanks for taking a look 🙏
About manic — animation language on Product Hunt
“Turn a few lines of code into explainer videos”
manic — animation language was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 15 upvotes and 17 comments, placing #61 on the daily leaderboard. manic is a tiny text language for animations. Describe the shapes and what happens over time — no timeline, no keyframes — and it renders a smooth MP4. Built for math, algorithm geometry & CS explainers. Write and render right in your browser
On the analytics side, manic — animation language competes within Design Tools, Developer Tools and Video — topics that collectively have 779.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how manic — animation language performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted manic — animation language?
manic — animation language was hunted by Anish Nath. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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