Motion Skills
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No Team plan? Make Claude Motion-style videos anyway

On one map: Claude Motion is in beta on Team and Enterprise, but Claude Code is on Pro and Max, and with a motion skill it renders the same kind of video on your computer.

Example of Explainer Video16:9 · 38 s

From Anthropic's Claude Motion help article and this site's guide; narration is a synthetic voice.

AvailableFull-film skill

Explainer Video

Finds the shape of an idea and makes the thing itself move.

Install it in your coding agent from its skill page: the install prompt, what it needs and the price are there.

Install or buy

$4.90 once, with its updates · or every skill from $9.90 a month

Good fit for

  • A lesson video a teacher can show in class
  • Why something happens, or how it works, in 30–90 seconds

Not for

  • A full course with quizzes
  • Topics where the facts are disputed
Example prompt
Use the explainer-director skill to make a 45-second explainer for students about why we have seasons.

More example films

Why we have seasons

Not distance: the orbit drawn to its real shape, then the tilt and the same sunlight spread over 2.1× the ground in December.

Example of Explainer Video16:9 · 58 s

How compound interest grows money

$1,000 at 5% for 30 years, year by year: what you put in, simple interest, and interest on interest.

Example of Explainer Video16:9 · 60 s

A worked example, not financial advice.

How your browser finds a website's address

DNS on one map: the resolver asks a root server, then the .com servers, then the site's own server, and keeps the answer for its time to live.

Example of Explainer Video16:9 · 81 s

From RFC 1034, RFC 1035 and IANA's root server list; the site and its address are made-up samples.

How many Earths fit inside the Sun?

From a person pointing at the sky out to the whole Sun: 109 Earths across, about 1.3 million by volume, and why fewer whole round Earths would fit.

Example of Explainer Video9:16 · 57 s

From NASA's Sun and Earth fact sheets (archived copies).

Built-in styles

Mechanism

Parts that move to show why it works.

System Map

Boxes, flows and packets that show how parts connect.

Flat World

Bright flat illustration that zooms from tiny to huge.

Papercut

Layered paper shapes with depth and shadow.

Example film from Timeline Video

Collage

Cut-out photos, paper and highlights, like a news explainer.

Example film from Timeline Video

Whiteboard

Drawn by hand as it is explained.

Example film from Lesson Video

Just one look

Smaller jobs of this film type, each in one fixed look: $4.90 each, included in every plan.

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