motion-design-skills

This skill should be used when the user asks anything about Adobe After Effects — to "write an After Effects expression", "make a wiggle / loopOut / inertial bounce", "rig a control with a slider / null", "build a MOGRT / Essential Graphics template", "export AE to Lottie or Media Encoder"; OR to "export from After Effects", "export with transparency / an alpha channel", "fix a black background on export", "choose ProRes vs H.264", "which codec / what bitrate for 1080p / 4K", "stop H.264 disappearing from the Render Queue"; OR when "After Effects is slow / laggy / crashing / froze", "RAM preview won't play in real time", "AE is using all my memory / render takes forever", "how do I speed up After Effects"; OR to "organize my After Effects project", "relink missing footage", "fix broken links after moving files", "set a folder structure / naming conventions", "batch rename layers", or "write an ExtendScript / .jsx script". Covers expressions & rigging, export recipes, performance triage, and project hygiene.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "make this animation feel natural", "fix motion that feels stiff/floaty/cheap", "my animation looks robotic", "choose an easing curve", "how do I use the Graph Editor", "add overshoot or bounce", "Easy Ease isn't enough", "make snappy motion", "pick a duration for this transition", "stagger a list animation", "sync animation to a beat", or "review motion for good timing". It is the tech-agnostic foundation for deciding how something should move.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "cut to the beat", "fix the pacing", "edit this sequence", "sync cuts to music/BPM", "add a match cut / J-cut / L-cut", "build a speed ramp", or "plan a shot sequence / edit timeline". Covers editing rhythm, transitions, retiming, and translating an edit plan to an NLE or a code timeline (Remotion/AE frames).

This skill should be used when the user asks to "build a color palette for a motion piece", "make a gradient background", "animate a color transition", "interpolate colors smoothly", "fix muddy/gray gradients", "convert colors to OKLCH", "color-grade a video for mood", "fix washed-out After Effects renders", "gamma shift", "Rec.709 vs sRGB", "colors shifted after rendering", or "match preview to final video". Covers palette construction, gradients, perceptual interpolation (OKLCH/Lab), grading order, and video/render color management.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "animate our logo", "make a logo intro/stinger", "build a brand reveal", "create an app splash animation", "loop a loader logo", "draw on our SVG mark", "morph an icon into the wordmark", or "sync the logo to a sound-logo". Covers web (SVG/Lottie), video, and app-splash delivery.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "direct a motion graphics video", "do creative/art direction for a video", "define a motion language", "set the tone and pacing", "make the animation feel consistent", "decide what to animate (and what not to)", "turn a brief/brand into motion choices", or needs the senior creative judgment that sits above specific techniques (gsap/lottie/shader). Covers motion language, tone & energy, pacing/rhythm, motion hierarchy, restraint, and cross-shot consistency.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "add an animated background", "build a mesh/gradient background", "make an aurora/shader background", "add constellation/particle background", "animated hero background", or "a subtle looping background behind content". Covers CSS mesh gradients, GLSL shader gradients (Three.js), canvas particle constellations, seamless loops, and reduced-motion/performance handling — fully self-contained.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "make a video with Remotion", "create a programmatic/data-driven video in React", "render an MP4/GIF from code", "animate with useCurrentFrame/interpolate/spring", "sync video to audio/beats", or "render a templated video per record headlessly". Covers building React compositions and rendering them via CLI or @remotion/renderer.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "compose a frame", "set up a grid", "plan shot composition", "place the focal point", "decide where elements enter and exit", "add a parallax/camera move", "adapt a layout for 16:9 / 9:16 / 1:1", or "keep content inside safe areas". Covers grids, safe areas, focal hierarchy, and 2D/3D camera framing.