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GPT-6 Astra + After Effects Creates Motion Graphics in Minutes!

2026-09-21 · long tutorial / working session · Adil · recording, 11:33 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Post-production & finishing (also: Prompting & AI assistants, Studio work & business) · mode: Tutorial · tags: prompts shared

Adil runs a set of motion-design jobs through After Effects with GPT-6 Astra in ChatGPT and the free Higgsfield After Effects plugin. Astra turns a brief into Higgsfield images, Figma storyboards and a finished animation, then builds an ASCII-art converter, a SaaS promo from a motion reference and captions for talking-head videos. It also rebuilds an illustration as animated shape layers, localizes a project with two team-built skills and resizes it for Reels with one prompt. His advice to designers: charge extra for resizes and grow a $500 design into a $5,000 campaign.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — What AI can actually do in After Effects

  • ★★ Adil says he has been using AI for almost all the motion graphics in his recent videos. — 00:00:10 · motion graphics

00:00:39 — Install the free Higgsfield After Effects plugin

00:01:01 — From brief to animated promo

  • ★★★ To build a motion-design brief, start with the idea, ask GPT-6 Astra to develop it scene by scene and show references for the rhythm, typography treatment or movement you like. — 00:01:08 · GPT-6 Astra
  • ★★★ Once the brief is ready, GPT-6 Astra generates the image assets in Higgsfield and builds storyboard layouts in Figma; Adil asks for changes to fonts, colours or composition, and after approval Astra builds and animates the project in After Effects. — 00:01:08 · GPT-6 Astra, After Effects, motion graphics
  • ★★ For the dragon-fruit promo Higgsfield generated five growth stages of the fruit that scale as the controller nears; Adil says such an effect takes hours and third-party plugins by hand. — 00:01:38 · After Effects
  • ★★ Adil says what he loves most is turning his ideas into motion without a motion-design background. — 00:02:07 · motion graphics
  • ★★ For professional motion designers, Adil says AI handling repetitive setup leaves more time for creative decisions and room for more ambitious projects or extra client services. — 00:02:07
  • ★★ In Adil's motion-design setup Higgsfield generates the artwork, GPT-6 Astra works through his brief and builds the animation, and After Effects gives him an editable project to keep refining. — 00:02:07 · GPT-6 Astra, After Effects

00:02:42 — Turn your video into animated ASCII art

  • ★★ For an animated ASCII-art effect, start with a black-and-white video generation in Higgsfield, which gives the movement; its light and shadow are then turned into characters. — 00:02:58
  • ★★★ In the chat Adil builds with GPT-6 Astra a custom ASCII converter with a small control panel for After Effects, opened via File > Scripts > Run Script File; he picks the video and section and sets rows and columns, fewer cells giving larger characters. — 00:03:19 · GPT-6 Astra, After Effects
  • ★★ The ASCII converter splits the video into frames; Python reads their brightness, divides each frame into a grid and picks a character per cell: dense ones such as 8, S or # for bright areas, dots and slashes for darker grey. — 00:03:19
  • ★★ The ASCII conversion outputs the main image and the background symbols as transparent layers, so the animation can go over other footage, take a brand colour in After Effects or get a glow. — 00:04:07 · After Effects
  • ★★ Adil says you need not write the converter's Python code yourself: you describe the effect, GPT-6 Astra helps build the converter, and you finish the look in After Effects. — 00:04:07 · GPT-6 Astra, After Effects

00:04:33 — Create a SaaS product promo

  • ★★★ Adil's tip for a SaaS promo: pick a motion reference you like, send it to GPT-6 Astra and ask it to adapt that style for your business; Astra then writes the request and sets itself the task. — 00:04:44 · GPT-6 Astra
  • ★★ Adil says giving the SaaS promo's falling labels a sense of weight by hand means working through fall, rotation, bounce and settling, and motion designers often use a dedicated physics tool for gravity and collisions. — 00:04:44
  • ★★ Adil says this differs from a regular AI video generator: he generates once, then keeps editing the same project instead of regenerating and picking the best take. — 00:05:23 · After Effects

00:05:34 — Captions, zooms and cutaways for talking-head content

  • ★★★ For content creators: upload the original video, then describe how the graphics should follow your speech; Adil let GPT-6 Astra write that request too. — 00:05:52
  • ★★ For his talking-head video Adil asked for zooms, dynamic animated captions synced to his words and cutaways generated in Higgsfield that match the meaning. — 00:06:14
  • ★★ Adil says the real problem with captions-and-zooms editing is not the hours but taste: knowing which word to emphasise, when to zoom and how long a cutaway stays. — 00:06:14
  • ★★ The editing skill carries the Higgsfield team's editing decisions, so GPT-6 Astra knows where emphasis and zooms go, and Higgsfield generates cutaways matching your words instead of stock footage. — 00:06:42 · GPT-6 Astra

00:07:07 — Character animation: bring illustrations to life

  • ★★ Adil says character animation by hand can involve an illustrator preparing the artwork as separate vector layers and a character animator connecting the parts and building the rig. — 00:07:11
  • ★★★ For character animation, Higgsfield generates the illustration, and GPT-6 Astra rebuilds it as separate shape layers in After Effects, sets up the connections and animates them. — 00:07:46 · GPT-6 Astra, After Effects
  • ★★ Adil says generating a video is enough if you want a finished clip, but the After Effects workflow gives separate parts of the animation to adjust one by one for more control. — 00:07:46 · After Effects

00:08:16 — Localization: new language, same animation

  • ★★ Adil suggests using localization in a portfolio: show a potential client how your work would look in their language. — 00:08:20
  • ★★ To localize a finished After Effects project you need the project, the folder with its linked assets and the finished original video, then choose the target languages. — 00:08:20 · After Effects
  • ★★★ Localization uses two team-built skills: one handles the editable After Effects design (text, fonts, layout, language compositions); the other finds clips with speech, prepares translated lines and generates localized versions in Higgsfield, which replace the matching shots after review. — 00:08:59 · After Effects
  • ★ In the Japanese version the animation follows the original while the text, down to the interface details, is adapted into Japanese. — 00:08:59
  • ★★★ To make a vertical version for Reels, Adil hands the rearranging of the finished project to the Higgsfield skill with one prompt. — 00:09:46

00:09:48 — Resize After Effects projects for Reels and Shorts

  • ★★ The resize skill gives GPT-6 Astra the team's layout rules, so linked parts stay together after moving: a label follows its object and the cursor still points at the right button. — 00:10:14 · GPT-6 Astra
  • ★★ The vertical resize took GPT-6 Astra about 50 minutes; the team estimates two to three hours for the same work by hand. (hedged) — 00:10:14 · GPT-6 Astra
  • ★★★ Since a business ordering a video often needs it in several formats, Adil advises offering resizes as an additional service and raising the price of the job. — 00:10:36
  • ★ Adil says the plugin also handles resizing motion graphics with product photos well. — 00:10:36 · Higgsfield Adobe Plugin, motion graphics
  • ★★★ Adil advises designers to take on more of a campaign (artwork, animated promo, banners, versions for other markets) and build toward a $5,000 campaign instead of stopping at a $500 design. — 00:10:36

00:10:57 — From one video to a full campaign

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Central: After Effects · GPT-6 Astra · Higgsfield Adobe Plugin · motion graphics

Also: ChatGPT · Figma

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