motion graphics and video editing bot
motion bot · own project
- the brief
- I edit in After Effects in a particular way, and it takes days. I wanted a partner that knows that way and does the heavy keyframing for me.
- the idea
- Not an AI video generator. Pekka Cut works inside After Effects, Premiere and Blender the way an editor does: it builds the layers, sets the keyframes, places the cuts and renders, using what it learned from my own old projects: my timing, my type moves, how I build a scene.
how it was made
It runs on Claude Code and drives the programs by script, then checks its own render before I see it. It never uses generative AI: not one image, frame, voice or note is generated, and it never will be. Everything on screen is made in the programs, from real footage, my photos, my voice and licensed music. I write the idea and the script, direct it, and say no a lot. Every film on this site went through it.
credits
- built by
- William Hyltskog, on Claude Code
- works in
- After Effects, Premiere Pro, Blender
- generative AI
- none, in any film, ever
- used on
- every film on this site
a test: thaw, 68 s
A Blender short I made to teach the bot calm 3D. A paper character pushes flowerpots under meltwater drips to play a tune, until the sun wakes the frog sleeping on one of them. It took six rounds of my notes: too real, too stiff, drops that looked like white orbs. That back and forth is the job.