Motion designwith ChatGPT
I couldn’t resist the wave of motion design made with Claude. Take a look at Prompt Motion — there’s plenty there to make you want to give it a go. Apparently, motion designers are dead. I’d like to reassure my family: so far, so good.
Anyway, I’m on GPT. I don’t find it particularly good at graphic design and, strangely enough, that’s also why I prefer it to the other models. It leaves me room, without trying to squeeze everything into a particular style or template.
So I wanted to make a short video to test the idea. The brief was simple: thirty seconds of self-promotion in the visual style of the site, with an AI speaking on my behalf and promising me automated income, while I mostly ask it to help me keep my job. Typography, pictograms and a bit of self-deprecation.
Suno for the music. ChatGPT to build the animation, timed to the lyrics. And me for the feedback. Quite a lot of feedback.
The result might not look like much at first glance, but it took around thirty prompts, sent in little five-minute sessions throughout my days, to get here. All in all, roughly four or five hours of actual work, excluding generation time. Doing it by hand, I reckon it would have taken me two or three days.
But the most interesting part, for me, is being able to bring the film into After Effects, with editable text, shapes and animation. And a project better organised than my own comps… I didn’t necessarily see that coming.
I don’t know yet what conclusions to draw. Mostly, I’d like to try this process in an actual production, with a real client brief, feedback and a deadline. See how it holds up against the realities of the job.