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Turn your own words into a tiny motion-graphics film

Give a short poem, a personal announcement or a few lines you wrote their own opening sequence. Get moving type, a deliberate rhythm and a small film you can replay, with the editable timeline behind it.

You get: A short motion-graphics film, an editable timeline, a poster frame and an export checkOriginal prompt · Not run-tested

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Turn this short piece of my own writing into a [20-second] motion-graphics film: [20–60 words]. It is for [viewer or occasion], should feel [mood], and will be watched in [landscape or portrait] format. My work limit is [time or tool-budget limit]. Use my supplied words; propose cuts separately if the text cannot be read comfortably in that duration. Do not invent personal events or substitute a famous poem.

Begin with a four-beat timeline showing which words appear, how long they stay readable and what the movement contributes to their meaning. Use typography, two or three colors and simple original shapes. Give one visual idea room to develop instead of piling up transitions. Work from system fonts or fonts I provide and may use. Keep the first version silent unless I ask for sound; do not borrow a commercial song or clone a person's voice.

Build the animation using the available code and preview tools. Put wording, colors and cue times in a small editable file or clearly marked section. Make the preview seekable so I can inspect the same moment repeatedly. Include play, pause and replay, with sound off until I explicitly enable it if sound was requested. Keep contrast readable and avoid flashing or fast repeated zooms.

If video export is available, render a modest-resolution MP4 or another clearly identified format my device can play. Before a full render, inspect representative frames and a short sample to catch clipped text, missing fonts and unreadable timing. Check the encoded result's duration, dimensions, opening and final frames. Open or play it when tools permit; state any playback or audio check you could not perform. A command finishing alone is not a quality check. Make at most one repair pass within the agreed limit.

Return the film, its editable source and timeline, one poster frame, and a brief record of actual checks. If encoding is unavailable, return the local browser animation with its controls and explain that no video file was exported. Keep the project private and local; do not publish, send it, upload my writing to another service or spend money without separate approval.
What the result could look like

Illustrative: two lines with their own rhythm

The original lines “The kettle whistles. The house wakes.” could become a quiet title sequence: a thin shape begins to pulse, letters gather slowly, and the final sentence holds long enough to read. This is an imagined result, not an inspected film or a tested workflow.

Illustrative example. This is not an observed result or a verified recommendation.
The real-world spark

Inspired by a reported use

The creator reports building a film as a timed web page, rendering frames into an MP4 and synthesizing sound from the timeline. They describe revising an earlier cut that moved too quickly, and share a detailed production prompt in the comments.

u/oxmannnn's first-person report of a Claude Code motion-graphics film

This is an accessible creator self-report, not an independently reproduced result. The embedded media was not played and the exported file was not inspected. The reported process included revision and substantial computation; it does not establish a one-prompt, quick or inexpensive result. This personal-writing prompt is our original untested extension. The prompt above is our original extension, not the author's exact prompt or a tested result.

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Make opening titles for your own home movie, a short invitation you will send yourself, or a moving version of a tiny poem. Keep the text and timing editable so a revision does not require rebuilding the entire film.

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