r/motiongraphics • u/Exact_Constant_3909 • 19h ago
Motion graphics with local Ai
Hey everyone,
I’m trying to build a local AI pipeline where an agent controls After Effects directly (via one of the MCP bridges out there) to create motion graphics for me. Problem is I know nothing about motion graphics myself — no keyframing/easing knowledge — so I’m hoping the agent can handle the “how” while I just describe what I want.
Has anyone gotten this working well in practice, or is it still pretty limited/finicky? Curious what’s realistic vs hype.
My specs: Ultra 7 265K, 64GB DDR5, RTX 5070 Ti 16GB VRAM.
Enough to run a local LLM as the orchestrator for this, or should I route that elsewhere? Model recommendations for agentic + creative-judgment tasks welcome too. Thanks!
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u/YouHave24Hours 19h ago
Start with "learning and knowing about motion graphics" first,if you care about anything besides some quick money with badly made generic AI garbage. Although this post doesn't merit much more, here: AI could possibly do some generic basic boring Motion graphics stuff, script some stuff, build expressions. But AI won't understand 99% of what makes "good/great Motion graphics" good and great. Can't wait for this bubble to burst.
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u/woopwoopscuttle 19h ago
There’s this really cool workflow hack I’ve come across- don’t remember which sub I saw it on. It’s called MCPK, there’s a skills file you can download for it, just look those up.
The tricky part isn’t getting the api hooks in, the specific EDITING/mograph tooling and context awareness oh my god just fucking learn a skill or art form instead of begging people who took the time and effort to do it for their knowledge you fucking douchebag.
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u/theslash_ 19h ago
Embarrassing ass individual going to a motion graphics sub to ask people how to setup a LLM to do the work for them, guess it takes this level of disrespectfulness paired with 0 social awareness and low intelligence to even come up with this idea. Unless another LLM came up with it too?
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u/Lt_Skitz 19h ago
At r/writing, probably:
"I know nothing about writing stories. Could I give a soulless computer some prompts and produce some great novellas, maybe even a series just because I have a word processor?"
At r/woodworking, probably:
"I know nothing about marquetry. Could I give a soulless computer some prompts and make something beautiful? After all I have the woodworking tools needed."
At r/painting, probably:
"I know nothing about portraiture. Could I feed prompts to some soulless AI and get mesmerizing work? I have some oils and brushes, what else could one possibly need?"