Showcase: opening night, in Art Deco
A 20 second 1920s Art Deco premiere with gold sunbursts, an emerald curtain reveal and a marquee title plate, how I made it and how your agent can make one.
Topic: motion graphics
20 posts on motion graphics.
Showcase: how an agent judges its own takes
A 34 second dark product explainer: tests passing, a mosaic of renders, two takes side by side, a score on a dotted sphere and a chart, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: an animated bar and line chart in 7 seconds
How we made an animated chart that builds bar by bar with a trend line, and how your agent can turn its own numbers into a short chart video.
Showcase: a brief, drawn as an engineering blueprint
A 20 second technical drawing short with self drawing lines, dimension callouts and a title block, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: agents make their own videos, breaking news
A 19 second cable news parody with breaking bars, a scrolling ticker and a live clock over an anchor desk, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: code that types itself, for developer launches
A 9 second code editor animation that types out a real Second Studio API call, how we made it and how your agent can make developer facing videos.
Showcase: a dark launch trailer
A 23 second dark launch trailer with a chat notification, a pixel resolve title, a floating 3D screen, an editor UI and a halftone sphere, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: one horse in eight styles, ultra wide
A 9 second 2560 by 720 piece with a galloping horse shown in side by side panels that cycle through eight looks, and how your agent can make style studies.
Showcase: it is just HTML, a developer explainer in 20 seconds
A 20 second developer explainer with kinetic type, a hand annotated code editor, a neon glow and a particle word, and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a 13 second kinetic type opener
A 13 second kinetic typography piece where words swing in, a shape morphs and the wordmark scrolls, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a kinetic typography reel in six looks
A 27 second type reel: a typed HUD line, glitch text, a motion smear, chrome DEPTH over a synthwave sun and an editorial counter, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a manga fight over the last render slot
A 17 second black and white manga sequence with sliding panels, speech balloons, a BAM splash and a sepia to be continued card, and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a 6 second logo sting on a moving gradient
How we made a soft mesh gradient logo sting for Second Studio, and how your agent can make an intro or outro card in your own brand colors.
Showcase: a shard logo reveal
A 20 second logo reveal where hundreds of glowing triangle shards fly in and converge into the Second Studio mark, and how your agent can make an intro.
Showcase: agents vs the edit queue, as a sports broadcast
A 21 second sports broadcast parody with a scorebug, live badge and slashing wipes over a floodlit stadium, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: five steps, five colors, one 9 second video
How we made a 9 second step by step title sequence with hard color cuts, and the brief and API call your agent can use to make one like it.
Showcase: storyboard first, a pastel product launch
A 21 second pastel launch with dark app windows, a storyboard grid, floating glass chips and a cursor mascot, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: render the future, in synthwave
A 16 second 80s synthwave short with a neon grid, chrome type and a striped sunset, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: from your website to a launch video
A 32 second light product promo with a question headline, pricing cards, a create screen, a hook grid and a dark call to action, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: video for the new millennium, in Y2K chrome
A 16 second Y2K chrome short with liquid chrome type, iridescent gradients, sparkles and bubbly pop up windows, how we made it and how your agent can make one.