Travel Animator MCP

Describe a trip. Get a video of it.

Travel Animator MCP lets an AI assistant plan a route, style the animation and render it to an MP4 on your machine — the route drawing itself as it is travelled, a 3D vehicle following it, map labels, country flags, and the distance badge the mobile app draws on top.

You say: "Make me a 20-second video of a road trip from Lisbon to Porto to Braga, on the Terrain map, with a red line and a car."

Your assistant: creates the project, adds the three stops, follows real roads between them, sets the map and line style, renders, and hands back the path to the MP4.

More prompts that work — and what it won't do — in examples/prompts.md.

Install

Two commands. The second one is not optional — a stdio MCP server cannot prompt you for credentials, so you log in once in your own terminal.

Claude Code

claude mcp add travel-animator -- uvx --from "travel-animator[mcp]" travel-animator mcp
uvx travel-animator login

Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, or any client that takes JSON

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "travel-animator": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--from", "travel-animator[mcp]", "travel-animator", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}

…then uvx travel-animator login in a terminal.

Already have Python? pip install "travel-animator[mcp]" and use travel-animator as the command. Python 3.12+.

Per-client instructions, including the "works in the terminal but not in the desktop app" PATH fix, are in docs/clients.md.

What you need

If your machine can't render at all, the server says so up front — before you build a project it can't finish — and can fall back to a server-side render.

What it can make

• 34 map styles — Terrain, Satellite, Sketch, Glow, Comic, Winter, Pixel, Watercolor and more (list_maps). One is free; the rest need premium.
• 355 3D models — land, air and water, from realistic cars and planes to an elephant (list_models). 11 are free.
• 7 route line styles — solid, dashed, dotted, striped, glow, transparent, auto (list_line_styles).
• Two projections — flat MERCATOR or a 3D GLOBE with stars, a sun and a moon.
• 9–60 second videos, at your choice of aspect ratio and resolution.
• Real roads or straight lines, per segment.
• Place labels, country flags, a distance badge, avatars and per-point effects.

How it works

create_project → create_route → update_animation_state → render_video → await_r

... [View full README on GitHub](https://github.com/lascade-co/travelanimator-mcp#readme)