Motion Graphics

The Motion Graphics node creates 2D animated graphics from a description: lower thirds, title cards, kinetic typography, animated shapes and line animations. An AI model designs the graphic and the settings panel previews it. Connect the result to Render Video for a video file, or place it over your footage with Lottie Overlay.

When to use it

• You need an animated lower third with a name and a role for an interview or a presentation.
• You need a title card, an intro, an outro or a call-to-action end card.
• You want kinetic typography from a quote or from lyrics.
• You want shape and line animations for an explainer video.
• You want a transparent graphic, such as a subscribe reminder or a sale badge, to lay over other video.

Quick start

Inputs

Outputs

Settings

Which engine to choose

The engine does not change the downstream steps: both engines return a composition for Render Video.

Rules for Lottie animations

• Vector only. The animation cannot contain images. Shapes, paths, gradients and text all work. A plan that uses images is rejected and generated again.
• Expressions are removed. Nodaro strips Lottie expressions from every plan for security.
• Twenty fonts. Text uses a list of 20 web fonts. A font outside the list is replaced with Inter.
• Size limits. A plan can have up to 50 layers and 128 KB. A larger plan is rejected.

On the Classic engine, the fonts come from a curated set. Describe the style you want in the prompt, such as "modern sans-serif" or "elegant serif".

Edit slots for free

A Lottie graphic has named slots, such as a main color, a name or a headline. After a run, the Slots section below the preview lists them:

• Colors show a color picker.
• Texts show a text field.
• Numbers and points show number fields.

Each slot shows a reset control after you change it. Slot edits change the existing animation in place: they cost no credits, do not regenerate the graphic, and the preview updates as you type. When you run the node again, the model keeps the same slot names, so your edits survive the new version.

Slots in published apps. When you add the node as an input in the publish dialog, each slot becomes an editable field in the published app and in presentation mode. The people who use your app can change these colors, texts and numbers on every run, for free. See Apps.

Factory presets

Motion Graphics ships 22 factory presets in six folders. They all use the Lottie engine.

Each preset is a full art-direction brief. It sets the prompt, the engine, the aspect ratio, the duration and the background, and it names the slots it exposes. Overlay presets use a transparent background. Standalone presets, such as title cards, the intro, the countdown and the backgrounds, use an opaque dark background. Text slots hold placeholder copy, such as "Jane Doe" or "SUBSCRIBE", for you to retype.

Choosing a preset replaces the prompt and those settings, and clears any animation the node made before. See Presets.

Credits

Motion Graphics costs credits in two steps:

1. Designing the graphic. The design is one call to the AI Model, charged for the tokens it actually used, at the model's rate. The tokens are your prompt and the plan or animation the model writes. The Run button shows an estimate (≈ and a number) of a typical run for the engine and model you chose. See How LLM calls are charged.
2. Rendering it. Render Video costs 55 credits per render on Nodaro Cloud.

• A Lottie run usually costs more than its estimate. The Lottie engine writes a much larger animation than the Classic engine, so it uses more tokens on the same model. When the first animation fails validation, the engine asks the model once more to repair it, and the repair call is charged too.
• Reasoning Effort has no price of its own. A higher level usually writes more tokens, and those tokens are charged. On a Claude model, any effort runs the call on Anthropic's own service, at that service's rate.
• Failures. A failure that the model's maker billed, such as an answer cut off at the limit or an animation that never passed validation, is charged for that usage, and the error says how much. A failure that was not billed is refunded.

Slot edits are free.

Tips

• Put exact words in quotes. "John Smith - CEO" gives you that text instead of copy the model invents.
• Name the style, the colors and the feel. For example: modern, minimal, neon, corporate or elegant; "pink accent, white text"; snappy, smooth or cinematic.
• Use the right length. 3 to 5 seconds suits a lower third, and 5 to 10 seconds a title card. Kinetic typography can run longer.
• Keep overlays transparent. Leave Background Color at #00000000 for anything that goes over other video.
• Chain nodes for long sequences. The maximum is 60 seconds per node.
• From the API. The API's default engine is Classic. Set the engine to Lottie in the request for the Lottie engine.