Motion Designer Showreel

A 15-second motion designer showreel at 128 BPM, rebuilt from the viral original: an Open Design mark opener, a stretching wordmark, six easing curves, a morphing shape, a truchet field, a 3D point cloud, kinetic type and an end card. example.html is the finished reference — start from it.

Source

A remake of a viral post by @stephanlivera: https://x.com/stephanlivera/status/2103315922098470926 (2.25M views · 17K likes · 13K bookmarks on X (as of 2026-10-05)). The composition is rebuilt in code from the published piece; the soundtrack is original.

Reference files

Copy example.html, assets/archivo-OFL.txt, assets/archivo-condensed-black.ttf, assets/archivo-expanded-black.ttf, assets/archivo-extrabold.ttf, assets/gsap.min.js, assets/instrument-serif-OFL.txt, assets/instrument-serif-italic.ttf, assets/jetbrains-mono-OFL.txt, assets/jetbrains-mono-bold.ttf, assets/jetbrains-mono-medium.ttf, assets/soundtrack.mp3 into the composition, preserving the assets/ path. Font licenses travel with their fonts. Use these frozen local bytes; no runtime script or font CDN is needed.

Art direction

• Hard colour cuts in the Open Design palette: near-black #202020, Open Design green #87EA5C, paper #FAFAFA, deep green #007106 and pale green #D0FFB5; ink #26251E.
• Fonts (SIL OFL, bundled): Archivo Expanded Black and Condensed Black for display type, Archivo ExtraBold, Instrument Serif Italic for the role line, JetBrains Mono for the HUD.
• HUD on every frame: corner marks, brand and "MOTION REEL — 2026", chapter label, timecode, 60 FPS, 128 BPM with four beat squares, BAR n/8 and a progress line.

Beat map (15s)

• 0–2.0s IDENTITY: rays burst from a dot and spin, the Open Design mark draws on and fills with a flash, orbiting type, a paper circle wipe.
• 2.0–3.5s the wordmark slides in on two lines, squeezes and settles; "motion designer" in serif italic.
• 3.5–5.5s EASING: "Six ways to get from A to B." — linear, ease-in-out, expo-out, back-out, elastic, bounce.
• 5.5–7.45s MORPHING: circle → triangle → star → squircle with green echoes and twelve satellites.
• 7.45–9.75s SYSTEMS: a paper tile splits into a truchet field crossed by a green wave.
• 9.75–11.2s DEPTH: a point plane folds into a lantern, then a torus.
• 11.2–13.1s KINETIC TYPE: EASE / IN. / EASE / OUT. / NEVER / LINEAR.
• 13.1–15s END: a white ring rolls out, the spinning Open Design mark with confetti settles beside the stacked wordmark, role line and footer.

Adapting the template

• Swap CFG.brand, CFG.role, footer copy and palette to the brief; keep the seven chapters on the 128 BPM grid.

How the reference is built

• One composition root with canvas layers. A single render(t) draws the whole frame from the master timeline time t; constants at the top hold copy, palette and timing so the film can be re-themed in one place.
• Every visible value is a pure function of t (eases, springs or keyframes evaluated from time). No state carries between frames.

Preview and video export

Keep the stage edge to edge in both gallery and MP4 capture. Playback controls are an overlay that stays transparent until hovered or focused; never reserve stage space for them or include them in the poster. Inside an Open Design project the motion source player fits the stage and owns the controls, so the preview shell yields its own fit and controls there.

The GSAP master timeline is the only clock. Render every visible layer from its current time in the per-frame loop: export seeks suppress timeline callbacks. Schedule the next animation frame before drawing so one failed frame cannot stop the loop. Backward seeks must reproduce identical frames. Await bundled fonts before playback and signal preview-ready at a legible hero frame. Preserve window.__timelines and the composition's timing attributes. Avoid large canvas gradients and per-pixel noise: they make every captured frame expensive and slow the MP4 export.

Sound

assets/soundtrack.mp3 is an original 15-second score made for this template and timed to its beats; no audio from the source video is used. The music is part of the look being remade. These rules replace the general sound guidance for this remake; apply the first one that matches the brief:

1. The user asks for no music: remove the <audio> element, do not copy the file, and freeze motionDelivery.audio as silent.

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