Improved prompt — Tested AI showreel prompt for a business — Opus 5.5 style, tested
by MotionPrompts (own run)
Prompt
Banned list ✓Beat grid ✓Build method ✓Self-review ✓
<direction>
An 8-second business showreel in the Opus 5.5 style for your business. Two type scenes cut hard — YOUR BUSINESS, / IN MOTION. — then a simple growth chart grows bar by bar, then the end card: "A SHOWREEL FOR YOUR BUSINESS — MADE FROM ONE PROMPT". Near-black background, white type, one orange accent, the last chart bar in accent.
Banned: glows, gradients, crossfades, stock footage language ("synergy", "solutions"), claims the business cannot back.
</direction>
<structure>
Scenes at 0s / 2s / 4s / 6.4s, hard cuts, each line punching in with a short scale settle. Chart scene: four bars grow staggered over ~1.9s, caption under — "GROWTH, DRAWN AS IT HAPPENS". End card draws its accent rule, then holds.
</structure>
<build>
One HyperFrames composition, 1280x720 landscape, seek-driven GSAP timeline. Scenes are separate full-frame layers switched with set() at exact times. Bars scale from their bottoms; the accent belongs to the final bar only.
</build>
<gotchas>
The famous one-liner ("make me a showreel, go all out") gives a different film every run. The structure above — scenes, times, banned list — is what makes the second run match the first. Keep your business lines to five words a scene or the type shrinks.
</gotchas>
Before you finish: step through the timeline at five points and fix anything that overlaps, clips the frame, or drifts off the beat grid.
The viral showreel shape — two type scenes, a growth chart, an end card — rewritten as a structured prompt for a business and run by us. The one-line version of this prompt is famous; this is the version that survives contact with a renderer.
Run log
| Model | Claude (agent build) |
| Renderer / stack | HyperFrames + GSAP |
| Iterations to final | 1 |
| Render time | 15s (final render) |
| Format | 1280×720 · landscape |
| Published | 2026-10-25 |
What broke (and the fix)
- Nothing broke. Chart bars grew on schedule and the end card held. The business lines were kept to five words a scene, so the type never had to shrink to fit.
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