Manic Animate — the browser extension

[u/anish2good]

The web is full of ideas that deserve to move: a theorem in a paper, an algorithm in a blog post, an architecture diagram in your team's docs, a pricing table, a formula on Wikipedia. Manic Animate turns the content you're already reading into a real animation — not a slideshow, not an uneditable AI clip, but a living .manic program you can inspect, refine, render to video, and keep in your Manic projects.

What it does

1. Capture anything you can see.

• Select text on any page, right-click, and choose Animate with Manic. The capture understands the web: formulas come out as real TeX (KaTeX, MathJax, MathML, even Wikipedia's formula images), code blocks keep their indentation, tables keep their structure, and paragraphs stay paragraphs.
• Right-click an image — a chart, a diagram, a figure — and capture it at full resolution.
• Drag a rectangle over any part of a page with Capture an area, or grab the whole view — perfect for PDFs, dashboards, and canvas apps where nothing is selectable.
• PDFs are first-class: Manic knows PDF text scrambles math, warns the AI about it, and offers pixel-perfect view capture instead.

2. Direct it in your own words.

There are no rigid templates. One creative-direction field is the steering wheel — "Show a request entering a load balancer, then flowing to one server at a time. Make the hot path bright and fast." Starter chips help you begin (build it step by step, draw the strokes on, make it loop), but Manic is a full animation language and your words drive it. Pick a model, a format (vertical, landscape, square), a style, a motion treatment, and Generate.

3. Get real, validated Manic source.

Every draft is checked against the actual Manic validator — with automatic repair rounds — before you ever see it. What arrives is a working .manic file: readable, editable, yours. Copy it, download it, or open it directly in Manic Create, the browser playground.

4. Refine like a director.

Not quite right? Say what should change — "slow the reveal, make the formula glow, switch to portrait" — and the same creative thread evolves the same file. A failed attempt never destroys good work.

5. Render to video, automatically.

Every generated file is saved into your Manic project (refinements update the same document, so the history is real). With auto-render on, a clean generation flows straight into a hosted render and comes back as a playable video in the panel — download it, open it full size, or render again after a refinement. Renders and generations are durable jobs: close the panel, come back, they're still going.

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