Ink in water gold-leaf logo
An ink in water logo animation: violet and gold inks swirl, then cure into a gold-leaf mark. Copy the prompt into Claude, edit it and render the MP4 free.
Two inks bloom through dark water lit from above and wrap around a shape you cannot see, until the empty space they leave reads as the logo. The water calms, liquid gold pools into the form from the bottom up and cures into gold leaf above a serif wordmark.
Edit the wordmark, both ink colours (the second also tints the leaf, flecks and wordmark) and the water background. The 16:9 format suits perfume, jewellery, spirits and other luxury brands for film intros, website headers and social sign-offs.
Use it for
- Luxury perfume brand intro
- Jewellery or spirits logo sting
- Cinematic title card end slate
Specs
- Length: 8 seconds
- Format: widescreen 16:9 (1920x1080), 30 fps
- Built with: Three.js in HyperFrames
- Category: Logos
What happens, beat by beat
- 0.0 Close on a violet plume mid-billow, a second thread in a light shaft at right; flecks drift.
- -0.15 to 0.32 Anticipation: a bright gold bead drops into the centre-right third, in the hero shaft...
- 0.3 to 1.7 ...and blooms into a mushroom about a quarter of the frame, glinting.
- 0.6 to 2.4 Violet enters from upper right, gold from far left; the camera pulls back and down.
- 1.9 to 2.5 The hidden form switches on (solid and void), so nothing peeks early.
- 2.0 to 3.4 Ink converges from above, below and left; gold streams feed the mark.
- 2.6 to 4.4 Violet presses right up to the contour, thickest on the outer arc. The mark reads only as holes in the ink, no line art.
- 4.4 to 5.15 The water calms; liquid gold fills the form bottom-up with a wavy meniscus and a bright specular lip, marbled with violet from the sim dye.
- 5.0 to 5.9 Cure: gold leaf rises bottom-up on a glowing front. Scale dips to 0.985, overshoots to 1.02, settles by 6.35.
- 5.0 to 6.3 Rack focus: the surrounding ink crossfades to its blurred copy, dims and clears around the mark.
Light the ink, do not just tint it
- Self-shadow: march ten steps up through a blurred dye copy and attenuate (floor at 15% so cores never go muddy).
- Billow relief: normals from the density gradient, mostly from the blurred copy so they read as broad billows.
- Translucency: alpha = 1 - exp(-density); thick ink deepens, thin edges get a forward-scatter glow, a blurred-dye halo diffuses into the water.
- Light shafts from a source above frame: a fan of noise-modulated rays slowly swaying, plus a bright hero shaft on the first gold bloom and later above the drop. Ink…
- Depth layers: the far veils render mirrored and blurred on a plane at z=-4.6; an out-of-focus foreground wisp layer at z=+4.2 fades out by 5 s.
What you can change
- Expose as composition variables: [brand wordmark], [first ink colour, default #5b2bb0], [second ink colour, default #e3a63c, also the leaf metal, flecks and wordmark tint], [water…
How the prompt opens
Make a silent 8-second, 16:9 (1920x1080, 30 fps) logo sting. Violet and gold inks bloom through dark water lit from above, wrap around a shape you cannot see until the empty space they leave reads as the logo, then the water calms, liquid gold pools into the form from the bottom up and cures into a gold-leaf mark above a letter-spaced serif wordmark. The example brand is an invented perfume house called [your brand name, e.g. MAISON AURE] with a mark of [your mark: here a crescent cradling a drop]. No hard cuts, no fades to black.
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