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Motion lab: 24 one-line animations
Paste the line into your AI (with your style file attached), swap the [brackets], and ask it to render a 6-second loop.
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How to use
- Attach your style file (comment STYLE for the template) so colours and motion match your brand.
- Paste one line below and fill the [brackets].
- Add: "Make it a 6-second loop at 1080x1080, every frame a function of time, then check your own frames and fix anything off."
The 24 lines
| # | Animation | The line |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Logo swarm | 500 small dots drift in from the edges, gather into [your logo], glow once, then burst out in a ring and re-form. |
| 02 | Liquid gradient | A tilted gradient fills the frame and slow ribbons of colour flow through it. Put "[one word]" small in the corner. |
| 03 | Glass card | A frosted glass card with a chip and •••• [4 digits] turns slowly in 3D over moving colour on dark navy; a band of light sweeps across. |
| 04 | Globe arcs | A dotted globe spins on navy. Glowing arcs fly between [your cities] and land with a small pulse. |
| 05 | Self-drawing chart | A clean widget shows "[metric]" and a live number. A gradient line draws itself left to right with a glowing tip, the area fills, a "[+x%]" tag lands. |
| 06 | Shape morph | A glossy gradient shape springs from circle to square to star to blob and back, a tiny label naming each, soft shadow below. |
| 07 | Dot ocean | A 3D field of small dots rolls like a calm sea on white. Low points purple, high points orange. |
| 08 | Card shuffle | Five original payment cards (no logos, last four digits only) fan out, close, and the top card slides off and tucks under. Repeat. |
| 09 | Number roll | A card labelled "[label]". The figure rolls up from zero like an odometer, blurs while fast, then keeps ticking. A growth tag and small bars below. |
| 10 | Silk ribbon | About 26 fine gradient strands twist through 3D space on navy, brighter on the front than the back. |
| 11 | Liquid metal | Glossy [colour] metal drops lit from the top left drift together into one drop, then split apart again. |
| 12 | Exploded phone | An isometric phone lifts apart into its layers (frame, screen, cards, buttons), hangs in the air, then snaps back. |
| 13 | Glowing orbit | A glowing core on navy with three tilted rings. Small moons pass in front of it and behind it. |
| 14 | Kinetic type | "[LINE ONE] [LINE TWO] [LINE THREE]" slam in one line at a time in heavy type, the last word in a gradient, then fly out and the next set comes in. |
| 15 | Pay button | A purple "Pay [amount]" button with a lock. A cursor drifts in, it presses, turns into a spinner, a tick draws with a sparkle, and it turns green: "Paid [amount]". |
| 16 | Confetti tick | A round gradient button pops in with a white tick, about 70 pieces of confetti burst and fall, "[your words]" in small grey text below. |
| 17 | Dot-matrix title | "[WORD ONE]" then "[WORD TWO]" appear as a grid of glowing dots on dark, scanning on from left to right. |
| 18 | Typewriter wall | A wall of serif text types itself on cream paper, and the word "[key word]" lands in a bright highlighted box. |
| 19 | Orbiting logos | [6 tool icons] orbit a centre badge "[your name]" on a tilted ring, passing in front of it and behind it. |
| 20 | Reel fan | [5 reel covers] fan out like a hand of cards, gently swaying. |
| 21 | Polaroid flash | Polaroids of [photos] snap in one at a time with a camera flash, tilted, with handwritten captions. |
| 22 | Growth bars | 3D bars rise left to right while a tag on top counts up to "[number] [label]". |
| 23 | Before / after | A slider wipes across from "Before" [image] to "After" [image]. |
| 24 | Chat beside you | A chat window slides in tilted, shows "[your question]", then types the answer "[reply]". |
Use them for
- Reel hooks and transitions
- Landing page hero loops
- Product launches and pricing pages
- Results posts (use real numbers or label them as examples)
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