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Show HN: A text-to-motion-graphics engine

1•Vraj911•2h ago
Hey HN,

Like many bootstrapped founders, I needed to create a high-quality promotional video for my startup (NexChat). But hiring a motion graphics designer or spending weeks keyframing UI animations in After Effects wasn't feasible.

To solve this, I built an internal text-to-motion-graphics tool. It takes plain text descriptions (e.g., "animate floating Gmail and Reddit icons connecting to a central hub" or "show a laptop screen syncing with a mobile UI") and programmatically generates the motion graphics, seamlessly compositing them over existing video footage.

I used it to generate 100% of the UI animations, floating icons, and text tracking in my promo video. The whole process took me less than an hour.

Here is the output (YouTube link):https://youtu.be/YGILQN4Rl1Q

(Note: The video itself is a promo for my main app, but I am sharing this here to showcase the motion graphics engine that generated it).

The tool is currently just an internal pipeline, but I want to see how well it handles different use cases, aspect ratios, and styles for standard social media content or YouTube videos.

I'd love to stress-test this. If anyone here is working on a project, a launch video, or just a social media clip and needs sleek motion graphics added to it, drop a comment or reach out. I'll run your video through my system and add the graphics for free.

Would also love any technical feedback on the rendering quality or animation smoothness you see in the demo!

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