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.
“I gave nothing more than a short text instruction. My only art direction was that it should be a Collage”
- Claude Opus 5.5
- HTML and CSS
- Plain JavaScript
- One-shot
- 12m
- $2
"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""
Make it yours. Replace "The Future Ministry book" with your own subject and "collage artstyle" with another style. Keep "vertical reel format" for a 9:16 video.
How it was made
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.
About $2, and around 150K tokens by the creator's recollection
Posted Sep 27, 2026 · r/MotionDesign on Reddit · 166 upvotes · 198 comments
Prompt from: Comment by the creator, recalled from memory
Look notesby Reference
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.
