# Viral showreel prompt run three times

> A test of the viral one-sentence "motion designer showreel" prompt, pasted once into three empty Claude Code folders on Opus 5.5. Only one run finished: a 15-second 1080p60 reel with a code-made soundtrack. The video shows all three runs, with time and cost.

- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/viral-motion-designer-showreel-prompt/
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/viral-motion-designer-showreel-prompt/prompt.txt
- Made with: Claude Code
- Model: Claude Opus 5.5
- Built with: not stated
- Style: Motion graphics; motion graphics, showreel, kinetic typography, abstract, test, comparison
- Length and format: 13 sec, 16:9 (1280x720 source)
- Shared by Heroic steps in YouTube, Sep 28, 2026: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRZ3rPJdt1A
- 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: An empty folder with no CLAUDE.md, memory, or skills, to match the test; Usage headroom for about 45 minutes and over 200K output tokens per run.
3. Follow the prompt below. It is the creator's text, unedited.
4. To adapt it to a new subject or look: Change "15-second" and "motion graphics video" to set the length and format, or name a product after "showreel for a résumé". Run it from an empty folder to compare against these three results.
- Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard.

## Prompt

```text
make a dynamic 15-second motion graphics video that shows what an incredible motion designer you are, like it's your showreel for a résumé. go all out.
```

## What it looks like

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

The finished reel plays inside an orange-rimmed window on a dark stage, labeled "RUN 3 · FINAL OUTPUT · UNEDITED": an easing-curve graph, bold type cards, a blue-and-white tile pattern, an isometric block city, gold particles, and glossy 3D spheres.

- Color: Inside the reel: safety orange, black, cobalt blue, off-white, warm gold particles, and a navy field with red, white, blue, and yellow spheres. The test video's frame around it is near-black with orange rules and captions.
- Type: In the reel, a heavy condensed sans in black on orange ("I MAKE", "MOV") and in white for "CONTRAST". Around it, small monospace header labels, an orange "MADE FROM CODE" tag, and the narrator's words captioned at bottom left with one word highlighted in orange.
- Framing: The reel fills a centered 16:9 window that takes most of the frame, with its own small HUD labels in the corners (shot number, BPM, timecode). The test video adds a header line at the top and captions below the window.
- Sound: The reel has a soundtrack Claude generated in code; the test video adds Kokoro narration, according to the description.
- Structure: An easing-curve graph, "I MAKE" on orange, "MOV" with the O filled by the tile pattern, the blue-and-white tiles full frame, the tiles extruded into an isometric block city, a ring of gold particles, an orange ball on a cream ground, colored spheres around a larger orange one on navy, and "CONTRAST" across a black-and-white split.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/viral-motion-designer-showreel-prompt/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 9.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/viral-motion-designer-showreel-prompt/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 11.2s: https://meetreference.com/media/viral-motion-designer-showreel-prompt/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 12.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/viral-motion-designer-showreel-prompt/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 14.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/viral-motion-designer-showreel-prompt/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 15.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/viral-motion-designer-showreel-prompt/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 16.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/viral-motion-designer-showreel-prompt/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 18.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/viral-motion-designer-showreel-prompt/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 19.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/viral-motion-designer-showreel-prompt/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 21.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/viral-motion-designer-showreel-prompt/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- One-shot: yes, a single prompt with no follow-ups
- Agent time: 45.2 minutes for the run that finished
- Reported spend: $8.55 API-equivalent for the finished run and $23.45 for all three, covered by a subscription rather than billed.
- Notes: Test setup from the description: Claude Code 2.1.283, Opus 5.5 at max effort, three empty folders, the prompt pasted once, no follow-ups, and no memory or project files. All three ran at once on one subscription, and runs 1 and 2 were cut off by its usage limit, not by an error. Run 3 finished in 39 steps and about 2,350 lines of code. Run 2 reached 5 of 8 scenes (a 9.4-second silent preview), and Run 1 built a render engine but wrote no scenes. Each run produced 204K to 253K output tokens, 66 to 75% of it reasoning. The segment shown here is the cold open, which plays Run 3's reel labeled "final output, unedited"; the chapter at 2:17 walks through it shot by shot. The channel says it is produced with Claude Code and reviewed by a person, with Kokoro narration.

> We ran it ourselves, three times, from empty folders, and show exactly what came out
> (Heroic steps)

## Links

- Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRZ3rPJdt1A
- Original post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRZ3rPJdt1A
- The viral prompt, as cited in the description: https://x.com/ajith_io/status/2103449416325890146
- Earliest known post of this prompt, by @shneural: https://x.com/shneural/status/2103151003272962130