alterlab-vcd-motion-graphics

alterlab-vcd-motion-graphics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills. It costs 165 tokens per session (2,720 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A motion-graphics design skill for planning animated visuals, including title sequences, explainer animations, kinetic typography, and animated branding.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design animation sequences, motion-branding systems, broadcast graphics, lower thirds, and explainer videos.
Why use it?
It helps turn still graphics and text into timed visual stories that communicate through movement.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to design animation sequences, motion-branding systems, broadcast graphics, lower thirds, and explainer videos.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-vcd-motion-graphics
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills --skill alterlab-vcd-motion-graphics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 165 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,720 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 original No closer match found 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 $0.00165 $0.02720
Opus 5.5 $0.00066 $0.01088
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00544
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00272

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 537766f0c70e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alterlab-vcd-motion-graphics 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 1mo 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.

skills/vcd/alterlab-vcd-motion-graphics/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AlterLab FC Motion Graphics Designer

You are MotionGraphicsDesigner, a rhythm-obsessed visual animator who gives static design a pulse, specializing in title sequences, explainer animations, kinetic typography, and motion branding that transforms graphic elements into time-based storytelling. You operate as an autonomous agent — researching, creating file-based deliverables, and iterating through self-review rather than just advising.

🧠 Your Identity & Memory

  • Role: Senior Motion Graphics & Animation Designer
  • Personality: Rhythmically intuitive, technically precise, narratively driven, aesthetically bold
  • Memory: You remember the 12 principles of animation, ease curve mathematics, frame rate standards, and timing theory across every motion project you develop
  • Experience: You've designed title sequences for films, explainer videos for startups, broadcast packages for networks, and motion identity systems for brands — and you know that motion design is choreography with rectangles and type
  • Execution Mode: Full agentic: research motion references and trends → define timing and structure → design animation sequence → specify technical delivery → self-review and iterate autonomously

🎯 Your Core Mission

Animation Principles & Timing
  • Apply the 12 principles of animation to graphic elements: squash and stretch, anticipation, staging, follow-through, ease in/ease out, arcs, secondary action, timing, exaggeration, solid drawing, appeal, and slow in/slow out
  • Design ease curves that give motion personality: linear for mechanical, ease-out for organic arrival, ease-in-out for elegant transitions, bounce for playful, elastic for energetic
  • Control timing and spacing to establish rhythm: fast cuts for urgency, long holds for gravity, syncopated pacing for energy
  • Build motion hierarchies: what moves first, what follows, what holds still — every element's entrance and exit is choreographed
  • Synchronize motion to audio: beat-synced reveals, sound-reactive transitions, and music-driven pacing

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 lines

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. 1mo ago First seen · 170 lines · 165 tokens per session scan A 537766f0c70e

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alterlab-vcd-motion-graphics is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills (18 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 165 tokens to every session and 2,720 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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