10 Steps to Turn Claude into a Motion Designer

Claude can design motion in two ways: Claude Motion, a beta on Team and Enterprise plans that animates your text, charts, and images, and Claude Code, which writes animation code you render to video. These ten steps work with either.

Claude Motion

Fastest for explainers from charts, reports, and slides

Claude Code

Full control, custom styles, and longer videos

Claude becomes a great motion designer when you give it a designer’s brief, rules, and feedback.

• For Claude Code, use a video framework such as HyperFrames or Remotion
• Install any motion skills your framework offers
• Check you can render a five-second test video

• Colours, fonts, and backgrounds
• Easing style: smooth, snappy, or bouncy
• Typical durations for entrances and exits
• What never to do, such as spinning text

Save it in a CLAUDE.md file or Project so every video follows it.

• Ease in and out, never move linearly
• Stagger elements instead of moving everything at once
• Lead the eye to one thing at a time
• Hold important text long enough to read

Write a 40-second script for an animated explainer about [topic]. One idea per scene, six scenes, with on-screen text under eight words each.

Turn this script into a storyboard: for each scene, the on-screen text, the visual, how it enters, how it exits, and its duration.

• Ask Claude to build scene one only
• Review it, give precise feedback, then move on
• Keep shared styles in one place so scenes match

• Add the voiceover first, then fit the animation to it
• Hit key moments on the beat
• Keep captions on screen throughout

• Ask Claude to export still frames at key moments
• Check text is readable, aligned, and inside safe zones
• Watch the full video at normal speed before approving

9:16

Reels, Shorts, and TikTok

16:9

YouTube and presentations

1:1 or 4:5

Feed posts

Package your style guide, principles, storyboard prompt, and review checklist as a skill or template, so your next video starts at step five.