motion-art-direction

motion-art-direction is a skill for Claude Code from 2233admin/design-pipeline. It costs 113 tokens per session (1,884 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of motion-art-direction, MIT.

A guide to making the creative decisions that shape a motion-graphics piece before animation begins. It turns a brief or brand into repeatable rules for timing, easing, transitions, intensity, and what should remain still.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define the tone, pacing, motion rules, and animation priorities for explainers, product launches, interface demos, data stories, and loops.
Why use it?
It helps fix animation that feels busy, cheap, or inconsistent because the overall direction was unclear. It gives a team or coding agent a shared visual and motion language.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the motion-design-skills plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to define the tone, pacing, motion rules, and animation priorities for explainers, product launches, interface demos, data stories, and loops.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/2233admin/design-pipeline/motion-art-direction
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add 2233admin/design-pipeline --skill motion-art-direction
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/2233admin/design-pipeline

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install motion-design-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,884 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00113 $0.01884
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00942
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00377
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00188

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0337edf7c93b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

motion-art-direction scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to motion-art-direction — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skill/references/iart-motion-skills/upstream/motion-design-skills/skills/motion-art-direction/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Motion Direction

Make the creative decisions for a motion piece before anyone animates a frame. Direction is the judgment layer: it turns a brief and a brand into a small, repeatable set of motion rules — one easing vocabulary, one timing scale, one transition family — so every shot feels like it came from the same hand. Good direction is mostly subtraction: deciding what NOT to move.

When to use

  • Starting any piece — explainer, launch film, UI demo, data story, loop — and the look/feel isn't decided yet.
  • Animation feels "busy", "cheap", or "inconsistent" and the cause is decisions, not craft.
  • Orchestrating other skills (gsap/lottie/shader/three.js): direction sets the rules they execute.
  • Translating a brand or brief into directable, written choices a team (or an agent) can follow.

The one rule

Define the motion language first, then animate to it. A motion language is a short spec — pick one of each: easing family, base timing unit, transition family, stagger rhythm, motion intensity. Everything in the piece obeys it. Consistency reads as confidence; variety reads as noise. When in doubt, reuse, don't invent.

Direction workflow

Step Decision Output
1. Brief Audience, one message, platform, duration, mood (3 adjectives) One-line creative intent
2. Tone & energy Where it sits on calm↔kinetic and soft↔sharp A point on the matrix below
3. Motion language Lock the spec table The motion-language spec (filled)
4. Hierarchy Rank what moves: hero / support / texture Motion hierarchy list
5. Restraint pass Cut motion that doesn't carry meaning List of what stays static
6. Shot direction Note intent per shot, not keyframes Direction notes (see template)
7. Consistency check Audit against the spec Pass/fail per shot

Tone & energy matrix

Place the piece on two axes; the cell dictates the motion language defaults.

Soft (organic, eased) Sharp (precise, snappy)
Calm Luxury, wellness, editorial — slow, long eases, generous holds, minimal stagger Premium tech, fintech — deliberate, clean linear-ish moves, tight but unhurried
Kinetic Playful, lifestyle, kids — bouncy/overshoot, springy, loose timing Sports, hype, gaming — fast cuts, hard snaps, aggressive overshoot on beats

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 115 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 0337edf7c93b

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motion-art-direction is a skill published in the GitHub repository 2233admin/design-pipeline (9 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 1,884 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to motion-art-direction, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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