# 40-second product showreel for Distilbook

> A 40-second motion graphics film for Distilbook, the creator's app that turns PDFs into hand-drawn explainer videos, made by pointing the viral motion-designer showreel prompt at a product that Claude Code researches first. One prompt, about an hour.

- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/40-second-showreel-product-video/
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/40-second-showreel-product-video/prompt.txt
- Made with: Claude Code
- Model: Claude Opus 5.5
- Built with: not stated
- Style: Product launches; product promo, showreel, motion graphics, illustrated diagrams, app, edtech, clean
- Length and format: 40 sec, 16:9 (1920x1080 source)
- Shared by @ajith_io in X, Sep 25, 2026: https://x.com/ajith_io/status/2103469807375208546
- 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 Code with Claude Opus 5.5, or the closest equivalent you have.
2. Set up what the prompt expects: A product with a public website the agent can research.
3. Follow the prompt below. It is the creator's text, unedited.
4. To adapt it to a new subject or look: Replace both mentions of "Distilbook" with your product's name and "40-second" with your length. Keep "Research" at the start so the agent reads up on the product before it designs anything.
- Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard.

## Prompt

```text
Research Distilbook.Make a dynamic 40-second motion graphics video on Distilbook that shows what an incredible motion designer you are. like it's your showreel - Go all out.
```

## What it looks like

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

A clean SaaS walkthrough on warm white: the Distil logo, three numbered steps with app-window mockups, a hand-drawn photosynthesis illustration, a wall of whiteboard-style drawings, and a closing call to action.

- Color: Warm off-white ground, near-black text, and three brand colors from the book-spine logo, green, blue, and magenta, used for the step bars and accents, with pencil-and-watercolor greens in the illustrations.
- Type: A heavy black sans for headlines ("Add your material.", "Read the script. Fix any line.", "Watch every idea get drawn."), small colored caps kickers (STEP 1, STEP 2, STEP 3), gray body copy, a word-by-word caption under the drawing with "stem" in pink, and "9:16." in blue.
- Framing: 16:9 with the headline on the left and a floating app window on the right (a PDF upload card, a narration editor with an Approve button, a drawing canvas), a three-segment progress bar (1 Add, 2 Edit, 3 Watch) at the top, and a centered logo and button at the end.
- Structure: Distil logo, Step 1 uploading Photosynthesis_Chapter7.pdf, Step 2 editing and approving the narration, Step 3 a hand-drawn seedling and its roots over a caption, a tilted grid of whiteboard illustrations, "16:9 or 9:16." on a curling page, "Your logo on every video." with brand color dots, then the DistilBook end card with "Turn any PDF into a hand-illustrated explainer video" and a distilbook.com button under a cursor.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/40-second-showreel-product-video/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 2.2s: https://meetreference.com/media/40-second-showreel-product-video/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 6.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/40-second-showreel-product-video/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 11.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/40-second-showreel-product-video/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 15.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/40-second-showreel-product-video/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 20.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/40-second-showreel-product-video/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 24.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/40-second-showreel-product-video/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 28.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/40-second-showreel-product-video/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 33.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/40-second-showreel-product-video/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 37.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/40-second-showreel-product-video/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- One-shot: yes, a single prompt with no follow-ups
- Agent time: About 1 hour
- Reported spend: 1% of the weekly limit on the $200 plan
- Notes: The creator calls it "an entire product video with a single prompt", made with "just claud code and prompt", at max thinking and with no skills or MCP servers. They say Claude chose Remotion or HyperFrames on its own without being told, but don't say which. Distilbook is the creator's earlier product. The prompt adapts the 15-second showreel prompt from the creator's previous post, which this post quotes.

> just claud code and prompt
> (@ajith_io)

## Links

- Watch: https://x.com/ajith_io/status/2103469807375208546
- Original post: https://x.com/ajith_io/status/2103469807375208546
- The creator's 15-second showreel post that this prompt adapts: https://x.com/ajith_io/status/2103449416325890146
- Reply on time: around 1 hour: https://x.com/ajith_io/status/2103792697928728939
- Reply on usage: 1% of a weekly limit: https://x.com/ajith_io/status/2104116600148562115