

Hey folks,
Claude Motion is getting insane. This week I used our office photo to vibe up a product demo.
I turned a photo of our office into a 3D model of the room I could spin around in my browser. 10 minutes after that, I had a basic product demo set inside it: a laptop and a phone on the table, a dashboard on the screens, and daylight from the actual windows as the camera pushed in.
This is just the starting point, but this kind of work you need a crew and an animator for. It took me a few prompts.
Let's dive in..

What's actually happening
Claude isn't making a video here. It's writing code.

AI video tools guess at every frame, which is why hands melt and logos wobble. Claude builds your room as a real 3D scene, then moves a camera through it. The room stays the room, and every object in it is something you can name and change.
It looks like this:
You give Claude a photo of your room.
It rebuilds the room in 3D using Three.js, a free toolkit for drawing 3D in a web browser. You don't need to know it exists. Claude does. Then you get a live, interactive model you can drag around.
The trick is in what you ask for. I didn't ask for a room. I asked for a film set. My prompt added camera shot presets, a tour that plays them in order, editable text on the TV screen, and a mode that hides the controls so you can record clean footage. That turns a 3D toy into something you can make videos with, every week.

Claude Motion does the camera work
Once the room existed, I asked Claude to turn it into a Motion film. A laptop and a phone on the table showing a dashboard mockup, the camera pushing in from the angle of my original photo with more natural light through the windows.
What came back was a great animation of our office, with a product demo inside the laptop. Photo to first cut of the video took under 20 minutes.

Once it's built, every change is a prompt.
"Put the phone on the left."
"Make the dashboard our brand colours."
"It's late afternoon. Lower the sun."
Claude edits the code and renders it again. No re-rolling and hoping, like you do with video generators.
And it's 1 build, many outputs. The same room becomes a 3D scene you can extend, share as a link, an MP4, a GIF for your next video idea.

Check your plan first
The room works on any paid plan. The Motion part doesn't.
Pro and Max get the full 3D set, including the shot presets and the tour. Switch on the recording mode, play the tour and screen-record it. Not as polished as Motion, but close.
Team and Enterprise get Claude Motion, still in beta. Type /motion in the message box.
Exports from Motion come out as MP4. For a GIF, drop the MP4 into any free converter.
Expect a clean, slightly game-like version of your room, not a photo. It's great for a demo. It won't replace a real shoot of your space. But work with it and be specific about what you want in the room with shadows, lighting and art that can bring it to life.

Try it out
Rebuild your office or studio space.
Take a wide photo of the room in good light, or take many photos to give full 3D context.
Open Claude, upload all the photos and prompt:
Recreate my room from this photo in three.js so I can animate videos. Match the layout, furniture, materials and window light. Add camera shot presets, a tour that plays them in order, editable text on the TV screen, and a mode that hides the controls for recording.Fix what's off with a prompt each. Wrong colour sofa, missing plant, light coming from the wrong side.
Make the film. Then type /motion, fill in the brackets and prompt:
Turn this room into a Motion film. Put a laptop and a phone on the table showing a dashboard mockup for [product], and push the camera in from the photo angle to the devices so the move into the product demo feels seamless. Colours: [palette]. Length: about 15 seconds.Download the MP4 and share it.
Or keep prompting. Budget half a dozen rounds of tweaks. Mine needed a few on lighting in the arched windows, and some room enhancements.

Links worth your click
Dashboards and Motion: Anthropic's launch post. Read it for what Motion can and can't do.
Three.js examples: what the toolkit Claude used is capable of. Good for ideas on what to ask for.
From past issues
📺 Vibe Code Your Own TVos: a new home screen for your TV in 5 minutes.
📊 Do you still need Power BI?: where I first turned a dashboard into a Motion video.




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