This Claude motion graphics prompt makes a 15-second promo video for your business from one paste. It runs in a regular Claude chat on the $20 Pro plan, and the video below came from it in September 2026.
An agency charges $1,000 to $2,500 for a simple 10 to 30 second animated video. This video isn’t worth that, and the catch is further down.
But if your video budget is zero, it’s a lot better than nothing.
The three things the blue dot shows off are real prompts from this site. There’s the credit card prompt, the contract review prompt and the room photo prompt.
How to make a motion graphics video with Claude
You need a Claude account on at least the $20 Pro plan.
That’s it for the video. Music takes one more step, covered in adding music below.
Claude reads your website, pulls your colors and logo, draws every frame in code, checks its own work (the same move as the self-check prompt) and gives you an MP4. No website yet? The website prompt builds one first.
Code execution is on by default in Claude. If you’ve turned it off, switch it back on under Settings, then Capabilities. Without it, Claude can’t render the frames into a video file.
Got a video you like the look of? Take a few screenshots, attach them, and add “match this aesthetic” to the end of the prompt.
Give it a while. Each run took about 24 minutes. Claude renders every frame before the file shows up.
The Claude motion graphics prompt
Fill in the brackets and leave everything else alone. The six quoted lines are the words that will appear on screen, in order.
Make a dynamic 15-second motion graphics video that shows what an incredible motion designer you are, like it's your showreel. go all out. make it for [BUSINESS NAME] ([WEBSITE]). The [ONE SHAPE OR COLOR FROM YOUR LOGO] is the star: it leads every shot, and the eye follows it from scene to scene. Use the words exactly as written:
"[OPENING LINE]"
"[THING YOU DO 1]"
"[THING YOU DO 2]"
"[THING YOU DO 3]"
"[YOUR OFFER]"
"[TAGLINE AND WEBSITE]"Claude may show something you didn’t ask for. If it does, run the prompt again with one line saying what not to show. Mine kept putting my lines in a chat box, which I didn’t want.
Why it works: “Like it’s your showreel. Go all out.” A showreel is where a designer puts their best work, so Claude uses every transition it knows. “The blue dot is the star” gives six unrelated lines one thing to follow, so they read as one video instead of six slides. If you don’t add this, it still works.
And “use the words exactly as written” keeps your copy yours. Without it, Claude rewrote my credit card line into “Which credit card actually are best?” Which doesn’t make sense.
One gap: This is where the $1,000 claim falls apart. A client paying that much wants changes, and you can’t really make them. Every note you add in plain English flattens the video, so you end up starting over. Remotion, a tool that turns code into a video you can edit, makes changes possible, but you still have to tweak the code and render the whole thing again.
Simple fix: Change only what’s in the brackets and run it again. Want a different look? Attach screenshots of a video you like and add “match this aesthetic,” instead of writing out directions.
Why a longer AI video prompt makes it worse
Before the short prompt, I tried a long one 4 times in Claude. It asked me 6 questions first, then built the video from my answers. Each time, I added more detail, and the results kept getting worse.
Here’s how the 4 tries went:
- The first one was flat. It didn’t have enough transitions.
- I added more rules and instructions. The second came back lifeless.
- I added a bold style, a color palette and a list of named moves: overshoot, scale pop, camera push, whip. But it went in the opposite direction and came out as slop.
- I asked it to add its own music. It wrote it in code, and it sounded like an old Nintendo game.
Check out one of my first tries, from when I had the long prompt and was fighting it. Press play to hear the 8-bit music.
After hours of research and fighting the model, the short prompt beat all the long ones. “Go all out” tells Claude to use every tool it has. A long list of motion rules makes it follow mine instead, and it uses every one of them, so the video comes out busy.
I imagine that if you learn the names of the transitions and give directions like a motion designer would, you can get exactly what you want. Otherwise, roll the dice and wait 24 minutes to see how it came out.
Claude vs ChatGPT for motion graphics
You can run the same showreel prompt in ChatGPT. YouWare posted a side-by-side on X: the same prompt, the same 15 seconds, GPT-6 Astra next to Claude Opus 5.5 Max.
Same prompt. Same 15 seconds. Two very different motion designers. I asked GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 Max: “Make a dynamic 15-second motion graphics video that shows what an incredible motion designer you are, like it’s your showreel for a resume. Go all out.” GPT-6…
YouWare (@YouWareAI) September 26, 2026
Watch both. Claude’s tries to fit in every transition it knows, so it moves faster and has more energy.
Personally, I’d take the energy.
How to add music to a Claude video
Ask Claude for music and it writes an 8-bit soundtrack in code, like an old Nintendo game. I recommend adding a track afterward. I used Claude Code to do it with free sounds from Freesound:
- Sign up for a free account at Freesound.org.
- Get an API key at freesound.org/apiv2/apply.
- Give the API key to Claude Code. Be ready to tell it the key is free, because it may flag it as unsafe.
- Tell Claude to find the music. Freesound’s tags are loose, so this is where it struggles. I found the track for this video myself.
- Let Claude add the sound effects. You might need a few rounds. In my case, the first ones it chose sounded like water drops.
Filter the license to Creative Commons 0, which needs no credit. CC BY tracks are fine too, as long as you credit the creator. Skip anything marked NC, which means non-commercial. If your video promotes a business, that’s commercial.
Mistakes to avoid when making AI videos
These aren’t all mistakes. They’re the things that cost me the most time.
You don’t need a special Claude skill. People on X said you need the product-film skill in Claude Code, which teaches Claude to plan, time and check a video before it renders. I set it up and it worked. Then I ran the same prompt in a regular Claude chat in incognito mode, and the video came out better without it.
You do need to plan for sound. The Claude Code version came with music I never asked for. The skill cuts every video to music, and it found an old track sitting in my project folder. The chat version came out silent, so plan on adding the audio yourself.
Do you need Remotion for Claude motion videos?
No, you do not need Remotion for Claude motion videos. The chat version above didn’t use it. Claude drew the frames on a web page, rendered them in a hidden browser and stitched them into an MP4. Remotion does the same job with a timeline you can edit later, which only helps if you plan to make lots of versions of one video.
Will AI replace motion designers?
No, AI will not replace good motion designers. This video clearly looks AI-made, and that’s fine for most people.
Most small businesses and solo creators don’t have $1,000 for a 15-second video. They weren’t going to have a video at all. Companies that do have the budget will keep paying great designers.
The designers who’ll feel this are the ones working on small budgets. Those clients now have a $20 option that’s good enough.
Wondering about your own work? The job risk prompt scores how replaceable you are.