Claude just Solved Motion Design (NO AI Slop)

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TLDR

Claude can now generate motion design, color grading, and transitions by combining its code generation with external tools like Higsfield for video generation. The key insight is that Claude's ability to write and execute code lets it produce professional-looking design outputs that go far beyond typical chatbot interactions. This only matters if you're willing to build structured systems around Claude rather than treating it as a simple prompt interface.

Key points

Claude can color grade video footage by analyzing colors and applying LUTs, removing green spills, and adjusting skin tones, all within a chat interface.

Claude can generate motion design videos by connecting to Higsfield's CLI, costing about $2 per animation.

The process involves three levels: color grading, motion video creation, and transitions.

For motion video, users find inspiration on sites like Savee, build a mood board, then give Claude the design loop skill to generate similar styles.

Claude can reverse-engineer existing designs by deconstructing elements like image size, color grading, and focal points.

Users can codify successful designs into reusable skills that Claude can apply to any future content.

Claude can scan uploaded footage for cut points and suggest transitions from a library of light leaks, film burns, and other effects.

The design operating system approach allows users to organize color grading, motion, and transition tools into separate tabs for reuse.

Tools mentioned

Techniques

  • color grading via LUT analysis
  • motion design via code generation and video generation tool integration
  • design loop skill for replicating visual styles
  • reverse engineering existing designs by deconstructing visual elements
  • codifying designs into reusable skills
Transcript (captions)

0:00 Imagine if you could design anything in minutes with no editor, no expensive software, and just one platform. Claude Design. In this video, I'll show you how to do things with Claude that 99% of

0:13 people don't even know exist. Beautiful motion design videos, color grading, B-roll, essentially any design that you need. So, you can get design superpowers and light years ahead of everybody else.

0:27 So, if you haven't already, grab that beautiful coffee and let's dive straight in. And everything I'm showing you here, from the graphics to the ability to do these kinds of motions to the ability to

0:37 build beautiful graphics that look like this, uh, transitions, everything was built using Claude. And you're going to learn exactly how to do this for anything that you like. I was genuinely

0:48 blown away by Claude's capabilities when I started pulling on a string. And if you make it to the end of the video, which I highly recommend, you're going to leave with legitimate design

0:58 superpowers, and I encourage you to join me on the fight against the AI slot monster. Now, Claude has just solved motion design. And in this video, I'm going to show you so much cool stuff,

1:08 it's going to blow your mind. Now, why has this happened? Well, one of the reasons for this is quite simply the idea that the model has just kind of gotten that good. And the reason why

1:18 everybody gets AI slop is cuz they just treat it like a chatbot. They don't use the right tools and they don't use the right systems. Both of which are super simple. And I'll show you exactly how

1:29 you apply them in this video. The idea is we're going to find brilliant design, build that brilliant design, and then codify it so we can use it whenever we want to. Now, I'm going to show you this

1:41 across three levels, uh, each of which gets more and more epic as we go along. Starting off with the ability for Claude to do what is known as color grading. And this is the idea that Claude itself

1:52 can access LUTs and do some incredible things. Now, previously when I learned editing for my YouTube channel, I always used to think, man, I've got to download loads of LUTs. I've got to figure out,

2:02 you know, what is the brightness? It was really complicated. But did you know that Core itself can conduct crazy research and just build the thing for you? Let me show what I mean. I built

2:12 this inside my design operating system. So, look, if I come over here and I show you over here under studio, I can come over to L. Now, check this out. This was basically a prompt I gave to Claude and

2:23 I said, "Hey, I want you to build for me a L system. I'm going to give you a video and I want you to color grade it and just build me some different options." And look at what it does. You

2:32 can upload any footage. You can click grade this. You can do this in the chat window with Claude as well, just as easily. I just like having an area to do this. And what this will do, it can

2:42 actually identify all of the different colors that exist. So, ink, olive, shadow, skin, window, leaf, and you can see what it's recommended using. And you can see what the difference is with the

2:52 color grading. And Claude will actually give you all the information. So, it's removed the green spill. That is awesome. Skin cool to natural, window recovered, blacks held off the floor,

3:02 and you can even reduce down the intensity to see exactly what the difference is. And as you can see, we've got loads of other different variations where you can literally now upload any

3:10 footage to Claude and have it color correct it into any style that you want. That is absolutely crazy. Now, not needing a professional color grading artist is one thing. And this is more

3:20 important than you think because this is just one task that we can now give to Claude and Claude Design will actually go ahead and complete that. But it is nothing compared to what exists inside

3:32 level two. Now, level two is this idea of motion video. And when I show you what I mean by motion video, it's going to actually go ahead and blow your mind. So, let's say, for example, you want to

3:41 build B-roll for your Instagram videos, for your YouTube videos, and you want to get a beautiful style that is replicatable. Well, the first thing we need to do is find something that looks

3:50 gorgeous. For example, this I thought was fantastic. What if I want to change this to 1992 and JR? Could it do this? This is what Claude gave me. And then I was like, awesome. Now turn this into

4:02 wide and look at the particle effects. Look at the combination. And this actually is different than just telling Claude. You just have to do a couple of things. You might be wondering, Jack,

4:11 how do I do this? Well, this is just scratching the surface. This works for so many different types. It is so freaking cool. So, let's come down to how it was built. Now, check this out.

4:20 All I did is we use a video generation tool, and we're going to be using Higsfield on this cuz it connects so freaking easily. It basically amended the color. It had a type that it edited.

4:30 Uh did some stuff with the frames. Didn't need to use any additional software at all. And then claw code edit together. And it cost about two bucks to build this animation. So the first thing

4:41 that we're going to do here is we're going to head over to Higsfield. This is what I use generally for my image and video generation. It's really cool because it's so unbelievably simple to

4:50 connect. All you do is come down here and screenshot this or I'll put a link down below so you can just click it and open it up if you aren't connected already. and then head back over to

4:59 Claude once you've grabbed a screenshot or just copy this information here. Then you can say, "Hey, I want you to connect to the Higsfield CLI so we can generate images and videos together and then

5:08 paste in the screenshot." Once you've done that, it will then open up the platform. You sign in and then you can go ahead and use all the latest video and image generation models. It is very

5:17 cool. Everything I'm showing you in this video, I generated with Higsville. That's how powerful it is. But the thing is, it isn't just enough to say, "Hey, go and make me this." cuz it will fail

5:27 spectacularly. It's crazy. So, what we're going to do is a very cool strategy. I'm going to put a link down below for this free design loop skill. And all the stuff that I've built in

5:37 this video, I'll put a link down below. Where you will grab it is the second link in the description and it will take you through to this here. This is where I keep all of my free resources. So, you

5:46 can go ahead and grab them. You just have to drop your email in. It is 100% free. And then you will find the resources here. And then if you want to go for some magic, we've got the the

5:54 community with a bazillion other things that take it to an unimaginably different level. So step one is to find inspiration. My current favorite place for this, and I want to shout these guys

6:03 out, is this website here. It is crazy valuable. Not only can you just get beautiful inspiration, you know, Pinterest is another great example of this. This is save.com with two ease.

6:15 You can actually type things in there. Like check this out. For example, if I type in numbers, look at this. Look at the This is exceptional design. It's design you can't even really explain why

6:25 it's good. It's just awesome. So, what I did as an example is I found a video that really fit the kind of graphic and style that I wanted. And I just said, let's say we find a couple of videos.

6:34 So, what you might do is if I come over to Pop, let's have a look. Again, these guys are not sponsoring the video or anything like that, but I I'll shout out I'll always share with you the stuff

6:42 that I think is decent. But let's say that you like this design. I might go ahead and I might want to actually have a look at those. Just save the video. um get a couple of different inspirations.

6:51 Essentially, what we're doing is building out a mood board of several different designs, several different styles, and our creative direction. Then head over to Claude and basically drop

7:00 in and say, "Hey there, this is the kind of style that I want to design. I love this animation from the first image, and I love the way that the second image at the color scheme that exists. Go ahead

7:11 and build me something using the below skill." And then all you're going to do, gang, is come over here, copy all this design loop skill, swing straight back over to Claude, and then drop that in.

7:20 So once that's done, you'll be able to actually get designs that look gorgeous like this. And so here is another style that I really like. So I thought, could I replicate something like this if I

7:28 wanted to go in this direction stylistically? Well, turns out yes, you can. You can basically go ahead and build anything you want to. And then here is another example which is

7:37 gorgeous. So even this website here, for example, guys, as you can see, look, I've even got this nice animation down here. All built with Claude using the systems I talk about. And by the way, if

7:45 this sounds like design Spanish, I'm going to put a link down below for my full Claude code masterass inside the community where you will learn everything from building beautiful

7:54 websites, power features, memory systems, Hermes agent apps, building anything, design systems, stuff I have never shared on YouTube that will help you get to a completely different level.

8:03 You'll also get access to the full design operating system with all the memory systems, all the costsaving functions and features and functionalities. I'll put a link down

8:11 below if you want to level up and get light years ahead of your competitors. And the funny thing is this itself was designed with Claude. So look at this. The one on the left is the original and

8:20 I saw this and I was like that is gorgeous. Like that just looks amazing to me. I was like I just love you can tell how hyped up I get about design because if you're new here by the way my

8:28 name is Jack. I built and sold my last tech startup like a gazillion customers. And one of the cool things I always got complimented on was the design. And I really genuinely believe it got

8:38 customers, investor conversations, sales, and everything. So, I get really hyped up about this design stuff, and it's so exciting to share with you the cool stuff. Now, I looked at this and I

8:47 was like, "This is really freaking cool. Can we reverse engineer what crushed this?" And this is everything on the right hand side, guys, were images I made with Higsfield and Claude using the

8:57 exact process that I'm showing you here. It is amazing. Typically, what's happening here is your focal point is drawn into the middle and then it's flashing images. But, you know, you

9:05 imagine you're building a video or a documentary or anything or even a short form content to have these little flickers just like that. And pay close attention to the the color grading as

9:16 well because I had it deconstruct step by step everything that's going on. You know, what is the size of the image? What is the color grading? What is the focus point? Why does this look so good?

9:25 Asking the right questions gets better outputs. And this is the kind of thing that you get. And as you can see, it's actually 20 photographs. And it broke down here exactly how it did it. And

9:32 this leads us nicely onto the third step which really brings us together. We've had the design, we've had the creation. Once the creation's done, we codify it. We build it into a system. And what's

9:42 really interesting here is that Cord helps us do that. And one of the findings here is that one grade glues everything together. Green sits above red in the highlights. The shadows stay

9:50 deep and clean and the grain covers every joint. That was one of the reasons why this looks so good because the design loop skill. I'll put a link on screen to a video if you haven't seen

10:00 the wonders of the design loop and why that's so cool. But it kind of was able to capture the design essence, guys. And this is what I want for your designs. The ability to understand what's

10:09 actually making these designs look so fantastic. And so the method here for all future stuff is measure before you build one grade over everything. One subject per photograph, hold two for two

10:18 or three frames, loop a short set, and basically break it exactly once. And then once that's complete, head back over to Claude and give it his prompt. this was beautiful. Now turn this into a

10:29 skill that I can use whenever I want for any of my content. And then Claude will actually go back, turn that into a skill, and then you can use it whenever you want to. Personally, this is why I I

10:38 so heavily recommend an operating system. Mainly because if you actually have an operating system, you can build out a design OS and then have like, you know, whatever you want to in here,

10:47 building whatever you need to and basically have tabs that you generate as you go along. And the other thing you can do with this as well isn't just to do with the video gem. We can do

10:57 anything from editing. So if you take a look at this for example, this is something even this motion background guys was created using the exact same process. I gave it an image. I said,

11:06 "Hey, turn this into a background and animated it." And Higsfield did that exact thing. And this is a video I did for my community. And look at this. You can have these beautiful animations

11:14 which are great. And then that very brilliantly takes us on to level three which is about transitions. Now check this out. You may be thinking, Jack, these transition transitions look

11:23 fantastic. And you wouldn't be wrong, actually. But we can now actually get Claude to do all this stuff for us. I like this transition. Or maybe I like this one or this one. How can Claude

11:32 possibly do this? These were very, very, very big and very in edge if you want to. Well, I played around with it and one of the things I found is that Claude itself can have a stab at it, but it's

11:43 not brilliant at doing it yet. So what you can actually do is you can find assets and websites that have motion designs. Now these guys are not a sponsored video. I used them when I

11:54 actually used to edit my videos back in the day. And effectively what you can do is find different design styles, different transitions that you really like. YouTube, for example, doesn't have

12:04 to be too designheavy, but you can find stuff like this. Now, of course, you can build all of these designs, all these transitions using the same process I showed you earlier. Or you can go to any

12:12 website that has transitions and you can download them and do whatever. Again, these are not a sponsored video. I just want to show you what you can do where you can download them. Then you can head

12:20 back over to Claude and be like, "Hey, I've just downloaded a load of transitions added to my design operating system and into my workflow so that I can basically just add them in when I

12:30 want to in my editing." And so, what I've added into my design OS, guys, is a transitions tab. Now, check this out. I can upload any clip I want to. It will find the scans for the cut and then

12:40 actually do the cut. And look at this. You can see all the different ones we've got here. We got this this little millimeter shots. It shows you what the film burns look like. You can see all of

12:47 the different things that we have. And I've got so many on here. Light leaks. These just look gorgeous. And guys, Claude can do this basically for anything that you want to just by

12:55 uploading footage. For example, you can upload footage, scan it for cuts. And again, you can do all of this inside Claude if you want to. you can identify where the cuts, where should they be,

13:04 and essentially it's basically having like an AI editor that runs through everything for you. Or if you prefer, you can literally just grab this stuff, have it as a place that you look at for

13:14 any kind of, you know, transitions. When I was editing, I was always like, okay, where are these web transitions? What should fix? It is really helpful just to have so much stuff that you can actually

13:24 come through and have a look at that you can just have a look, grab, download, and throw into video whenever you want to, whether you're doing it or you're giving it over to Claude. So, for

13:31 example, you can do stuff like this. This is a video and you can actually come down here and play around. And I hit the transition, jumps onto something else. Again, it just shows you exactly

13:39 how it works in practice. You can build anything really cool with this stuff. But it does lead us on to a very interesting question and that's where does this actually stop and what is one

13:49 of the most valuable things that you can be doing with this technology right now? Well, I'm going to show you one of the most epic use cases I found, and we're going to do that together inside this

13:58 video right

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