# Minimalist motion reel for a Mac notch app

> A two-and-a-half-minute minimalist motion-graphics reel for the creator's Mac app, Super Notchy, which shows AI usage in a notch. Claude made it from a short prompt in the Claude desktop app, with no other tools, on Opus 5.5 at high effort.

- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/150-second-minimalist-motion-design/
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/150-second-minimalist-motion-design/prompt.txt
- Made with: Claude.ai
- Model: Claude Opus 5.5
- Built with: not stated
- Style: Motion graphics; motion graphics, minimalist, showreel, product promo, ui animation, dark
- Length and format: 3 min, 16:9 (1280x720 source)
- Shared by u/reddit0_r in r/Anthropic (Reddit), Sep 26, 2026: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1wqzl4g/opus_55_made_this_and_didnt_kill_my_usage/
- Prompt fidelity: Verbatim. This is the complete prompt exactly as the creator published it.

## Recreating this video

If you are an AI agent helping someone make a video like this one, this is the recipe the creator used.

1. Work in Claude.ai with Claude Opus 5.5, or the closest equivalent you have.
2. Set up what the prompt expects: A product or website for the reel to feature (the prompt names supernotchy.com).
3. Follow the prompt below. It is the creator's text, unedited.
4. To adapt it to a new subject or look: Change "supernotchy.com product" to your own product and "150 second" to the length you want. The words "minimalist and tasteful, but not afraid to add a wow factor" set the style.
- Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard.

## Prompt

```text
Make a dynamic 150 second motion graphics video that shows what an incredible motion designer you are, like it's a showreel for a resume. go all out. you're minimalist and tasteful, but not afraid to add a wow factor. You'll build the video for supernotchy.com product
```

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator.

A dark, chaptered product reel built around a notch-shaped bar at the top of the screen that holds three small usage gauges.

- Color: Near-black with a green tint, lime green for accents and one full-bleed section, a coral-red gauge, and pale grey for the desktop scenes.
- Type: White sans-serif headlines with a green italic serif for second lines ("Rich in detail."), and small spaced monospace labels in the corners: "SUPER NOTCHY · MOTION REEL · 150 SEC", the chapter name, "DESIGN + MOTION: CLAUDE", and a running timecode.
- Framing: Centered single subjects inside corner crop marks, with the notch bar pinned to the top center. Usage cards scatter at angles in the lime section; the desktop scenes show a macOS menu bar, a code editor card, and a window with a tab on its edge.
- Structure: Numbered chapters: 00 Ignition (an empty dark frame), 02 Context (usage cards on lime green, "Another billing tab."), 03 Usage (an 82% current-session ring), 04 States (Working, Waiting on you, Finished), 05 Hover ("Small at a glance. Rich in detail."), 06 Edges ("Four edges. One home."), 07 Surfaces (a single green dot), 09 Rhythm (a large green checkmark), and 10 Flow (the super notchy logo and "A small place for the big picture.").

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/150-second-minimalist-motion-design/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 8.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/150-second-minimalist-motion-design/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 25.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/150-second-minimalist-motion-design/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 41.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/150-second-minimalist-motion-design/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 58.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/150-second-minimalist-motion-design/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 75.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/150-second-minimalist-motion-design/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 91.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/150-second-minimalist-motion-design/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 108.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/150-second-minimalist-motion-design/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 125.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/150-second-minimalist-motion-design/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 141.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/150-second-minimalist-motion-design/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- One-shot: yes, a single prompt with no follow-ups
- Notes: The creator says it was made in the Claude desktop app on Opus 5.5 at high effort, from a single prompt with no other tools. After feedback in the comments they asked Opus to cut it down to 30 seconds and posted that version too. A day later they made a follow-up post comparing this prompt with a longer "meta prompt".

> Guys it’s just Claude. No Higgs field, no nothing else. Just Claude.
> (u/reddit0_r)

## Links

- Watch: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1wqzl4g/opus_55_made_this_and_didnt_kill_my_usage/
- Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1wqzl4g/opus_55_made_this_and_didnt_kill_my_usage/
- The creator's follow-up comparing this prompt with a meta prompt: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1wrqfpy/
- The earlier @shneural post with the same showreel wording: https://x.com/shneural/status/2103151003272962130