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Cats in the Swirling Night

A 25-second seek-and-find piece set in a swirling, post-impressionist night village, with the camera revealing five hidden cats.

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The prompt behind it

Claude made this from the prompt below, working directly in Layerz Canvas through its MCP server. Paste it into Claude (Claude Code or Claude Desktop) with the Layerz Canvas MCP connected and it builds a new take on the same canvas — then you take over. Connect the MCP server

Prompt

Build this in Layerz Canvas using the layerz-canvas MCP.

Create a 25-second, 1920×1080 seek-and-find animation set in a hand-built vector homage to a swirling post-impressionist night: a village under a turbulent starry sky. Five cats are hidden in the scene; the camera finds them one by one.

Look: sky in layered blues #10204F, #1F3C88, #3E64C8, #8FB2F0; stars and moon in #F7D84A with #FFF3B0 halos; village in #1B2A3A, #2F4A5C, windows #F4C25B; a tall dark cypress #0F1A14 on the left. Build the sky from dozens of thick curved stroke swirls (6–14pt, rounded caps) layered in rows; animate them by slowly drawing on and gently rotating stars. Cats are simple silhouettes with two glowing eyes #F7D84A.

Beats:
- 0–5s: Wide establishing shot. Swirls draw on across the sky in a stagger, stars bloom with glow, windows light up one by one. Title in New York serif italic: "Find the five cats."
- 5–8s: Camera glides to a rooftop: cat 1 blinks its eyes; a thin gold circle draws around it; a counter at top-right ticks "1/5".
- 8–11s: Camera drifts to the cypress: cat 2 is curled in the branches, tail flicking.
- 11–14s: Down to the church steeple: cat 3 sits on the cross-beam, silhouetted against the moon.
- 14–17s: Into a lit window: cat 4's shadow stretches behind the curtain.
- 17–21s: Up into the sky: the largest swirl slowly turns, and its spiral is revealed to be a sleeping cat's curled tail. Cat 5, the hero moment; the camera rotates 15° to follow the curl.
- 21–25s: Pull back to the full scene; all five gold circles glow at once, counter reads "5/5", and the swirls keep turning. Small "Made with Layerz Canvas" bottom-right.

Craft notes: camera moves are slow ease-in-out glides of 1.5–2s; the sky never stops moving subtly; the cats should be genuinely findable on a paused frame.

Edit it yourself

  • Change colours, text and type in the inspector.
  • Drag keyframes, reshape easing curves and retime any move.
  • Ask Claude for changes through the MCP, then fine-tune by hand.
  • Export it as an image, a video, Lottie or a web page like this one.