motion-design

Frames are designed pages, not video with text dropped on top. This skill turns a shot plan (see motion-plan) into concrete, on-brand compositions.

Read Appendix A before your first frame. Read Appendix B when you need the layout grammar for a specific scene type.

1. Derive the palette from the footage — do not invent one

The accent color is already in the source video. Sample it; do not pick one.

1. Pull 3–5 frames from the A-roll. Find the strongest non-skin, non-neutral hue — a lamp, a wall wash, a logo, a jacket, a bit of set dressing.
2. That hue is the accent.
3. Read the room's exposure. Bright/airy recording → light-tinted variants. Dim/moody recording → deep variants. A dark scene design over bright footage looks pasted on, and vice versa.
4. Build three roles from that one hue: