Kinetic type manifesto wall
A 9:16 kinetic typography animation: seven manifesto lines land as 3D lacquered letters on painted panels. Copy the prompt into Claude and edit the words.
Seven short lines build one at a time from heavy, bevelled 3D letters on a wall of eight painted panels. Each word lands with its own physical move on a steady beat, and the very first word arrives huge and motion-blurred. In the last two seconds the camera pulls back to show one poster, with a blinking cursor in the eighth, blank panel.
Change all seven lines, keeping them to two to four words each, and set the accent colour used for the panels and type. Line 7 sits beside the blank panel, so make it the payoff. It suits vertical manifesto videos, brand statements, Reels, TikTok and Shorts openers, and event teasers.
Use it for
- Brand manifesto for Reels
- Vertical kinetic typography opener
- Product launch statement video
Specs
- Length: 14 seconds
- Format: vertical 9:16 (1080x1920), 30 fps
- Built with: Three.js in HyperFrames
- Category: Text
What happens, beat by beat
- 140 BPM: beat 0.4286 s, bar 1.714 s. Line i starts on bar i (0, 1.71, 3.43, 5.14, 6.86, 8.57, 10.29 s). Reveal at 12.0 s, hold to 14.0 s.
- The first word of a line lands 0.10 s after its bar, then one word per beat; with four or more words, compress the gaps to fit 1.15 s. The film's very first word lands at…
- Words repeated from the previous line (MAKE IT in lines 6 and 7) settle quietly just before the bar; the new word takes the big move on beat 2.
- Beat 4 of every bar: a 3.5% fov punch-in and a key-light flick. Every move is a pure function of time.
Build the type as real solids
- Trace the font yourself: rasterise each capital of a heavy condensed sans (Oswald 700) at 420 px on a canvas, run marching squares, simplify with Ramer-Douglas-Peucker, collapse the tiny anti-aliasing…
- Extrude at 20% of cap height with a 6% bevel. Crease normals at about 35 degrees, then flatten the lids so they show no facet streaks.
- Unkerned advances plus 2.5% tracking, so solid letters never interpenetrate; one pivot per letter.
- Lacquer: MeshPhysicalMaterial, clearcoat 1.0 at roughness 0.1. Black letters #050505 with a stronger env map than the accent ones.
How the prompt opens
Make a 14-second, 9:16 (1080x1920, 30 fps) motion piece in Three.js. Seven short manifesto lines are built one at a time out of heavy bevelled lacquer type on a wall of eight painted panels, each word landing with its own physical move on a 140 BPM grid. At the end the camera pulls back and the whole wall reads as one poster: seven panels of type and an eighth, blank panel with a blinking block cursor. Example copy: SAY LESS / MEAN MORE / CUT THE NOISE / KILL THE BEIGE / MAKE IT MOVE / MAKE IT LOUD / MAKE IT YOURS. Swap in [your seven lines, two to four words each] and [your accent colour, e.g. #FF3B1F]. Expose…
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Copy the prompt into Claude, or pull the scene into Claude Code and render the MP4 on your machine: how it works.