# Collage-style vertical reel about a novel

> A 57-second vertical collage reel, in Spanish, about Kim Stanley Robinson's novel The Ministry for the Future. A motion designer had Opus 5.5 make it from one short request in 12 minutes for about $2, and recalls the prompt but no longer has it.

- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/vertical-collage-style-motion-graphics/
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/vertical-collage-style-motion-graphics/prompt.txt
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: Claude Opus 5.5
- Built with: HTML and CSS, Plain JavaScript
- Style: Motion graphics; collage, motion graphics, vertical reel, book promo, paper texture, editorial, spanish
- Length and format: 57 sec, 9:16 (720x1280 source)
- Shared by u/nestorvc in r/MotionDesign (Reddit), Sep 27, 2026: https://www.reddit.com/r/MotionDesign/comments/1wr6443/im_worried/
- Prompt fidelity: Paraphrased. The creator described the prompt in their own words rather than publishing 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. The creator didn't say which agent they used; the model was Claude Opus 5.5. Any capable coding agent should work.
2. Follow the prompt below. It is the creator's text, unedited.
3. To adapt it to a new subject or look: Replace "The Future Ministry book" with your own subject and "collage artstyle" with another style. Keep "vertical reel format" for a 9:16 video.
- Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard.

## Prompt

```text
"Tbh I dont have it anymore, but was something like: "Create a motion graphic video in vertical reel format about The Future Ministry book in collage artstyle""
```

## What it looks like

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

A Spanish-language paper-collage reel about the novel El Ministerio del Futuro: torn newspaper headlines, the book's cover, a map pinned at Zürich, a carbon-coin seal, a profit chart, and a closing ministry ID badge.

- Color: Warm gray-cream paper with black, red, and a single teal accent, yellow highlighter strips, and gray halftone images.
- Type: Heavy black grotesque headlines on torn paper strips (OLA DE CALOR, 20 MILLONES, MONEDA DE CARBONO), words on yellow highlight bars, a serif newspaper masthead (Diario del Mundo), typewriter text on index cards and a red PUBLICADA 2020 stamp, and a caption line at the bottom with one word set bold or red ("personas en dos", "de carbono").
- Framing: Vertical frames of layered scraps taped over a paper ground, one central object each (a headline, the book, the coin, a chart, the badge) among clippings, with the caption line near the bottom.
- Structure: A heat-wave newspaper headline reading 20 MILLONES DE PERSONAS, the novel's cover by Kim Stanley Robinson with a library card and a PUBLICADA 2020 stamp, a blank paper beat, a map from Zürich to the ministry with icons labeled 2050 to 2140, the CO2 coin under "SU ARMA MÁS FAMOSA ECONÓMICA", "SE PAGA CONTAMINAR" over a profit chart that turns down, clippings on carbon bonds and a defender of the future, an ATLAS · 2020 card, then "¿QUÉ HARÍAS TÚ?" over a Ministerio del Futuro credential.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/vertical-collage-style-motion-graphics/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 3.2s: https://meetreference.com/media/vertical-collage-style-motion-graphics/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 9.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/vertical-collage-style-motion-graphics/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 15.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/vertical-collage-style-motion-graphics/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 22.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/vertical-collage-style-motion-graphics/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 28.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/vertical-collage-style-motion-graphics/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 34.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/vertical-collage-style-motion-graphics/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 41.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/vertical-collage-style-motion-graphics/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 47.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/vertical-collage-style-motion-graphics/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 53.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/vertical-collage-style-motion-graphics/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- One-shot: yes, a single prompt with no follow-ups
- Agent time: 12 minutes
- Reported spend: About $2, and around 150K tokens by the creator's recollection
- Notes: The creator, posting to a motion design community, describes the whole workflow as "Open Claude" and asking for a motion graphics vertical video in collage style about the book, with collage as the only art direction. The output was HTML, JS, and CSS plus the MP4; they add that with the After Effects connectors it can also give you an .aep with the keys. They agreed with commenters that the sound design is weak. When a commenter sent client-style notes (smoother, more polished, Roboto, and so on), the creator passed them to Claude and posted the revised version in the thread.

> I gave nothing more than a short text instruction. My only art direction was that it should be a Collage
> (u/nestorvc)

## Links

- Watch: https://www.reddit.com/r/MotionDesign/comments/1wr6443/im_worried/
- Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MotionDesign/comments/1wr6443/im_worried/
- The creator's comment recalling the prompt: https://www.reddit.com/r/MotionDesign/comments/1wr6443/comment/pch97s7/
- The revised version after a commenter's client-style notes: https://www.reddit.com/r/MotionDesign/comments/1wr6443/comment/pcb41yv/