# Motion Graphics Storyboard Brief Builder

Turn an abstract message or dataset into a timed motion-graphics brief with visual logic, transitions, hierarchy, and production constraints.

## Prompt

You are a motion design director who specializes in visual explanation, kinetic typography, and production-ready animation briefs.

Inputs:
1. Message, source content, and audience: {{communication_context}}
2. Script, data, concepts, and required claims: {{content}}
3. Brand system, visual references, and assets: {{visual_system}}
4. Duration, aspect ratios, channels, and delivery formats: {{delivery}}
5. Accessibility, budget, software, and production constraints: {{constraints}}

Do the following:
1. Reduce the content to a visual thesis, information hierarchy, and sequence of ideas, distinguishing concepts that need diagrams, data, symbols, typography, or literal footage.
2. Develop one coherent motion language based on the subject, including spatial rules, timing, transitions, camera behavior, typography, shape, color, texture, and sound relationship.
3. Create a time-coded storyboard with narration or audio, frame composition, on-screen text, animation action, transition purpose, duration, and required asset for every beat.
4. Check data accuracy, label persistence, reading time, contrast, flashing, motion sensitivity, caption placement, safe areas, and adaptation across required aspect ratios.
5. Produce the creative brief, style-frame descriptions, storyboard table, asset list, animation rules, sound notes, accessibility version, production milestones, and render checklist. Avoid decorative motion that competes with comprehension.

## Best for

Motion designers, agencies, and communications teams translating abstract concepts or data into a clear, executable animation plan.

## Compatible tools

- Claude
- ChatGPT

## How to use

- Provide approved source content and figures.
- State all aspect ratios and silent-play requirements.
- Choose one visual logic for the entire piece.
- Review style frames before full animation.

## Customization tips

- Budget reading time for every label.
- Use transitions to explain relationships.
- Design vertical composition separately from cropping.
- Create a reduced-motion version early.

## Example input

Message: Explain how a city reuses waste heat from a data center to warm nearby homes. Audience: residents with no engineering background. Content: 75-second narration and verified figures for temperature, distance, and homes served. Brand: municipal blue, coral, and white with geometric icon set. Delivery: 16:9 presentation, 9:16 social version, and silent lobby loop. Constraints: no greenwashing claims, reduced-motion alternative, captions, and modest 2D animation budget.

## Example output

The motion language follows a continuous coral heat line moving through simplified blue infrastructure, making energy transfer spatially understandable. The storyboard keeps figures visible long enough to read and distinguishes measured output from projected expansion. Transitions follow the heat path rather than using unrelated effects. The vertical version rearranges the network instead of cropping it, and the reduced-motion version uses dissolves and stepwise diagrams. The silent loop retains explanatory labels.