Animation Quality Gate
SkillMediaYour AI can catch problems in Blender animations before you accept them. After a render, it reviews the result and flags issues like flicker, unstable silhouettes, and weak framing. It also checks that the animation will export correctly and that the motion design holds together.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
After adding it, render your animation in Blender and ask your AI to check the result. Mentioning motion, morphs, or outside elements also prompts a review.
Then ask your AI: use the Animation Quality Gate skill
What your AI can do with it
- Render contact sheets of animation attempts for quick review
- Flag flicker and unstable silhouettes in rendered animations
- Check framing, subject dominance, and layer separation
- Confirm animations are compatible with export
- Judge whether the motion design is coherent before a render is accepted
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by cheshirejcat/blender in skills/create-3d-model/references/modules/animation-quality-gate/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Do not accept an animation because it rendered. Accept it only after a contact sheet and failure analysis pass.
Review dimensions
- Subject dominance — the main asset remains readable and is not overwhelmed by HUD/context.
- Layer separation — base subject, texture state, glow, HUD, and background are separate enough to control.
- Silhouette stability — silhouette stays constant unless deliberate morph is specified.
- Texture coherence — no ugly full-image crossfade, crop pop, or unregistered morph.
- Motion coherence — arcs/dots have a reason, restrained speed, and coherent easing.
- Export truth — the final export can reproduce the effect or limitations are explicit.
- Frame aesthetics — sampled frames look good as stills.
RALPH trigger
If a user calls an animation ugly/bad, stop rebuilding immediately. First:
- collect preview frames/contact sheet;
- identify the failed dimension(s);
- invoke
quality-refinement-autoloopif the stack lacks a method; - add/refine generic skills only after sanitization;
- only then rebuild the animation.
Hard gates
- No final animation without a contact sheet.
- No GLB claim for texture swaps implemented only with Blender Python handlers.
- No decorative context elements in base avatar export unless requested.
- No morph that violates locked geometry constraints.
Scripts
scripts/animation_contact_sheet.pybuilds a contact sheet and frame-to-frame difference report from rendered frames.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 26
- Last commit
- Aug 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
animation-quality-gate- Source
- github.com/cheshirejcat/blender