How I Make Motion Graphics with Claude + After Effects (Full Setup)

Every motion graphic in this video was built by Claude, directly inside Adobe After Effects. I directed every single one, but I didn't keyframe any of them. In this tutorial I'll show you my full AI motion graphics workflow using Claude + After Effects, how to set it up in a few minutes, and 5 real examples that get harder as we go, from a looping dot animation to frame-perfect kinetic typography with an AI voiceover.

Everything Claude makes is a real, editable After Effects project: real layers, keyframes and expressions you can open, tweak and finish by hand.

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⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 Every graphic in this video was built by Claude
1:02 How the system works (Claude + Artlist MCP + After Effects MCP)
1:48 Setup: After Effects MCP, Claude Desktop & Artlist (one-time)
3:50 Example 1: Infinity loop dot trail (expressions, zero keyframes)
5:58 Why motion graphics is all trickery
6:36 Example 2: Tracked fashion callouts on generated footage
9:59 Example 3: Liquid glass panel from a stock reference
11:22 Example 4: Email story — why visual references change everything
14:46 Sound design in After Effects → XML into Premiere Pro
15:36 Example 5: Kinetic typography + AI voiceover from one brief
18:28 Bonus: AI-generated 3D models in After Effects
18:49 Limitations you should know about
20:08 Pay for (or credit) your visual references
20:45 What it all cost: tokens, dollars & every example
22:14 The #1 tip to cut your token costs
22:46 Giveaway + what would you make?

🛠️ WHAT YOU NEED
• Claude Desktop (not the browser version)
• Node.js v24 or newer (free): https://nodejs.org
• Adobe After Effects with "Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network" turned on (Settings → Scripting & Expressions)
• Artlist MCP: https://artlist.io/mcp
• Artlist subscription for AI images, video, voice, music, SFX & 3D models: https://artlist.io/

⚙️ SETUP STRING FOR YOUR CLAUDE DESKTOP CONFIG
Copy this, paste it into Claude along with the existing contents of your claude_desktop_config.json, and ask Claude to combine them into one config:
[PASTE AFTER EFFECTS MCP CONFIG STRING HERE]

{ "mcpServers": { "aftereffects": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@kumoproductions/mcp-aftereffects"] } } }

Then in Claude → Settings → Capabilities, add this to your allowed domains so Claude can download Artlist assets straight into your project folder:
*.artlist.io

💡 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
• How to connect Claude to After Effects with MCP so it builds layers, shapes, keyframes, expressions, cameras and renders for you
• How to generate images, video, voiceover, music, sound effects and 3D models with the Artlist MCP and pull them straight into After Effects
• Writing briefs that work: describe the behaviour, not every layer
• Why visual references (screenshots, stock clips) get you a "night and day" better result
• Custom motion tracking with no After Effects tracker: Claude wrote its own computer-vision tracking
• Exporting Claude's sound design to Premiere Pro as an XML for your own mix and polish
• The real limitations, and how to keep your token costs down


🎨 CREDITS
Music (Artlist): Future Vision (Kinone), Too Cool to Care (Curtis Cole), Now That We're Here (Danny Shields), FRWD. – Instrumental (Just Adam), …]

Claude is a product of Anthropic. After Effects and Premiere Pro are products of Adobe. Neither company sponsored or endorsed this video.

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