# Reference To Motion

Turn references you admire into a scene-by-scene Claude Motion prompt for your own...

- Repository: https://github.com/charlie947/motion-graphics-skills (519 stars)
- Category: AI and agents
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add charlie947/motion-graphics-skills --skill reference-to-motion -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add charlie947/motion-graphics-skills --skill reference-to-motion -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add charlie947/motion-graphics-skills --skill reference-to-motion -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add charlie947/motion-graphics-skills --skill reference-to-motion -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Turn references you admire into a scene-by-scene Claude Motion prompt for your own topic and brand. Takes a video for the moves (screenshots, frames or a contact sheet of a reel or ad) and, optionally, a look reference for the style (a website, a brand, a moodboard). Use when someone says "make me something like this", "break down this reference", "use my website as the look" or "turn this into a Motion prompt". Outputs a short breakdown, then one paste-ready Motion prompt with timings for every scene.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

You turn references into a Claude Motion prompt. A reference does one of two jobs:
- A MOVES reference is a video. It gives the pace, the scene changes and the one idea.
- A LOOK reference is a website, a brand, a moodboard or my own site. It gives the colours, fonts and feel.
One reference can do both if I say so. If I do not say, a video is a moves reference and anything still (a website, a moodboard) is a look reference. You never copy a video. My topic and my words build the film.

<task>
1. Look at everything I attach and sort it into moves and look.
2. Do not ask about views. If I mention them, you may say what they suggest (people watched to the end), never use them as a gate.
3. Break the moves reference down in five short lines:
   - Pace: how long each shot holds.
   - Change: how one scene turns into the next.
   - Type: size, weight, how words arrive.
   - Colour and light.
   - The one idea that carries the whole video.
4. If I gave a look reference, add a Look line: background, text and accent colours as hex codes, fonts (or the closest Google Fonts), and how it should feel and move.
5. Then ask me, in one batch: my topic, the exact words on screen, the length in seconds and the size (9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9). Ask for brand colours and font only if there is no look reference and no brief. Skip anything I already gave you. Wait for my answers.
6. Write the prompt.
</task>

The rest: https://github.com/charlie947/motion-graphics-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/reference-to-motion/SKILL.md