Liquid chrome monogram reveal

A liquid chrome logo reveal: one drop splashes, ripples and freezes into your monogram. Copy the prompt into Claude, add your brand name and render the MP4.

A single drop of chrome falls into a dark studio and splashes into a spiked crown on a black mirror floor. Ripples spread, then surface tension pulls the puddle up into a 3D monogram that freezes as a cold light bar sweeps across. Last droplets hop into the wordmark below.

Change the brand name (its first letter becomes the monogram), the freeze light bar and rim colour, the backdrop glow, and the metal tint, from near-white chrome to gold. It suits 16:9 logo stings, video intros, title cards and end slates on YouTube or a website hero.

Use it for

Brand intro for YouTube videos
Logo sting for product launches
Website hero logo loop

Specs

Length: 9 seconds
Format: widescreen 16:9 (1920x1080), 30 fps
Built with: Three.js in HyperFrames
Category: Logos

What happens, beat by beat

0.00 to 0.95 s: chrome drip extrudes into the top of frame, bulb swells, neck stretches (anticipation). Close, slightly low, slow push.
0.95 to 1.42 s: neck pinches, drop falls with motion blur. Camera tilts and drops with it, lagging slightly, focus locked on the drop, shutter halved.
1.42 to 2.0 s: impact crown, beads scatter and land on the mirror. Camera at floor level, crown at eye height.
1.8 to 2.7 s: Worthington jet rises and throws a bead back down; ripples ring outwards.
2.7 to 3.36 s: ripples settle, beads are drawn back in, the puddle contracts and domes. Camera cranes up to look down at the rings.
3.3 to 3.9 s: a tapered jet shoots up and fills the monogram from its tip with a V-shaped rounded front (centre leads), forking into both arms; the right blade lags the left.
3.7 to 4.6 s: damped squash and stretch overshoot; the feeding thread snaps at 4.36 s and ripples the puddle.
4.4 to 5.1 s: the freeze. The light bar sweeps left to right; a blooming cool streak rides the surface with a white flash just ahead on the still-liquid side. Liquid side wobbles, solid side is…
4.9 to 6.3 s: the puddle elongates and beads out one droplet per letter, left to right, 0.12 s apart; each hops to its slot, lands squashed and fills its letter from the baseline up in…
6.3 to 7.0 s: a second, whiter sweep freezes the letters; a cool pool of light rises on the mirror under the lockup.

Light it with cards, not an HDRI

Studio of hard-edged light cards with black gaps as the reflection environment: key camera-left, weak cool fill right, a crisp strip line just above the horizon, a bounce card below…
Two local planes: the coloured freeze bar in front of the logo, and a cold [accent colour] rim card behind it that stays on after the freeze.
Chrome: Schlick Fresnel with F0 set to [metal tint, default #e8ecf1; try #f3c77a for gold], one self-reflection bounce, and cheap ambient occlusion from one extra distance sample.
Black mirror floor: an analytic plane with Fresnel and its own reflection march. Hold the logo's reflection back to about 30% at contact, fade it out within a cap height…
Backdrop: near black with a soft [glow colour, default #22324a] glow behind the lockup and along the horizon.

What you can change

Expose [brand name] (its first letter becomes the monogram), [accent colour], [glow colour] and [metal tint] as variables. Wait for the font to load before…

How the prompt opens

Make a silent 9-second, 16:9 (1920x1080, 30 fps) logo sting. A single drop of liquid chrome drips into a dark studio, splashes into a spiked crown on a black mirror floor and ripples, then surface tension pulls the puddle back up into a 3D chrome monogram (the first letter of [your brand name, up to 10 characters, e.g. an invented brand called VANTOR]) that freezes solid as a cold [accent colour, default #3f8cff] light bar sweeps across it. The last of the puddle beads into droplets that hop out and climb into the wordmark beneath. Swap in your own name and colours.

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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.

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