Motion Graphics

motion-graphics — dispatch entry

Confirm the route before Step 0. This skill makes a short, design-led, unnarrated motion graphic (motion is the message; ~under 10s, no voice-over). A longer, multi-scene, or narrated treatment → /general-video; a narrated video of a website → /website-to-video; a topic explainer → /faceless-explainer; a product promo → /product-launch-video; captions on existing footage → /embedded-captions. Out of scope: live / at-render-time data, or footage it can't capture. Unsure motion-first-vs-narrated? Read `/hyperframes` first.

A short design-led motion graphic. Asset-first: decide the asset strategy and source real material _before_ designing the shot, then design the shot around what you have, then compose by reusing catalog capabilities. All artifacts go to PROJECT_DIR = videos/<project-name>/ (created in Step 0); all paths below are relative to it.

◇ source runs only when the chosen category declares assets. Pure code/text categories (e.g. kinetic-type, most charts/stat) have asset_needs: [] and skip straight from plan to design.

Categories — split by the search decision

plan's first decision is: does this need a search? That fork splits the categories into two groups; then the specific category is picked — for search-driven, by the type of content the search returns. Each category is one categories/<id>/module.md (its planning + build rules); the shared motion vocabulary lives in references/motion-vocabulary.md (→ hyperframes-animation rules/blueprints + registry blocks).

Form categories — no search; the user supplies the content:

Search-driven categories — search first, then animate by content type (the RWA path):

Build order: one at a time, coverage-first (rough is fine). kinetic-type ported from the prototype; the rest follow.

Prerequisites

macOS Apple Silicon or Linux x64. System tools: brew install node ffmpeg. npx hyperframes doctor once. macOS GPU render: export PRODUCER_BROWSER_GPU_MODE=hardware.

Optional keys (local fallbacks if unset) — only needed by categories that source/generate assets via media-use:

Flow

Step 0 — Initialize

cwd is the agent workspace root; write all artifacts under PROJECT_DIR = videos/<project-name>/. <project-name>: use the dir the user gave, else a short kebab-case name from the intent (<subject>-motion). Not the workspace basename or a timestamp.

Only when $PROJECT_DIR/hyperframes.json is absent:

PROJECT_DIR="${MOTION_GRAPHICS_DIR:-videos/<project-name>}"
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$PROJECT_DIR")"
npx hyperframes init "$PROJECT_DIR" --non-interactive --example=blank

init checks the installed skills against the latest on GitHub and updates the global set if any are out of date.

Constraints: never hyperframes init in the workspace root; never nest another hyperframes/ inside PROJECT_DIR; every Bash command (master + subagents) is a (cd "$PROJECT_DIR" && ...) subshell — never bare cd.

Step 1 — Plan (subagent: Director Part 1)

Dispatch one subagent. prompt = full agents/director.md + ## Dispatch context (SKILL_DIR / PROJECT_DIR / the user's request / Schema: <SKILL_DIR>/references/shot-plan-ir.md). It must:

1. Decide: does this need a search? (the first fork)

• No → pick a form category (kinetic-type / stat / charts / logo-reveal / lower-thirds); content is user-supplied; asset_needs: [].
• Yes → emit a search plan into asset_needs[] (news / web / tweet / image; two-pole queries). The specific search-driven category (webpage / news / tweet / asset-fusion) is confirmed by the content type returned in Step 2, and finalized in Step 3.

1. Write a draft shot-plan.json (envelope + chosen form category _or_ search intent + asset_needs + a one-paragraph shot brief). Schema: references/shot-plan-ir.md.

Validation: [ -s "$PROJECT_DIR/shot-plan.json" ] && echo ok || echo missing.

Step 2 — Source ◇ (Bash: media-use, conditional)