Automated Motion Graphics
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Sleepy Motion is an online motion graphics tool that delivers finished, high-end videos (ads, stories, news recaps, promos, pitches) in under 2 minutes from a simple request. It is precise and deterministic: it renders exactly what you ask for, with real kinetic typography, animation, voice, music and sound effects. It works on desktop and mobile.
Sign up with Google or email, then just tell Sleepy what you want in the prompt box, in any language. For example "a launch ad for my skincare line, using my product photos and my own voice". Optionally add a logo, fonts, photos or audio from the + menu, then generate. Your video is ready in about 2 minutes. On desktop, pressing Tab in the empty prompt box fills in the example so you can try it straight away.
No. With "AI decides" on, Sleepy picks the motion mode, look and effects for you and handles the script, animation, timing, voice, music and sound design. When you want precision, every detail is yours to control: presets, motion modes, fonts, colors, animations, post-process effects and more.
Pretty much anything you can describe: product launches, ads, promos, brand stories, news recaps, pitches, motivational quotes, explainers and fun content. Beyond prompt-to-video you can add motion graphics captions to your own videos (including text behind the subject), turn songs into lyric videos and music edits, and use Sleepy Pro to build full motion graphics into a 3D scene video.
Motion graphics videos are 10-15 or 25-30 seconds (up to 15 seconds on Free), made for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and Facebook. Captions mode accepts source videos up to 30 seconds, or up to 2 minutes on the Agency plan. For a longer story, combine several shorts, each in a different environment.
Sleepy Pro is a completely new way to make motion graphics. You bring a scene video and Sleepy masks it automatically and builds a full motion graphics production into the scene: text walking through a desert, weaving between mountain peaks and clouds, living inside the world instead of sitting on top of it. You never need to provide a mask, just a video as sharp as possible.
Four ways. Pick one of our preset scenes, rendered in Unreal Engine for the best quality. Render your own in Unreal (we provide a sample project you can edit). Film one yourself. Or the everyday route: generate a scene on any AI video platform, upscale it to 2K, loop it to about 20 seconds and upload it. Every render fills a scene differently, so one scene can be reused again and again.
Ask any AI video platform for the scene you want, for example a slow turntable or a walk through a landscape, in 4:5 or another size. Upscale it to 2K with a tool such as free.upscaler.video, picking strong detail settings since detail is what matters. Most platforms stop around 10 seconds, so loop it or add a reversed copy in DaVinci Resolve or any free editor to reach about 20 seconds. Scenes are 2048x2560 (4:5), or 3072x3840 for 2K output, up to 125MB.
Every preset scene is open on every plan, including Free, in HD. Uploading your own scenes, in HD or 2K, is available from the Creator plan up.
Motion graphics take from about 40 seconds (Clean mode) to about 2:30, Sleepy Pro included. A 30-second 2K Pro scene can add a minute, and so can stacking 3 post-process effects each masked differently. Classic captions are ready in about a minute once your video is uploaded, Composite captions and lyrics up to 30 seconds take 1 to 2 minutes, and longer captions (up to 2 minutes on Agency) can take up to around 6. Retries are faster, because the heavy lifting like subject masking is already done.
Yes. After a render you can edit the script or simply tell Sleepy what to change ("darker colors, make it in Spanish") and retry. Each retry is a new render and counts as one video, but because the engine is precise rather than generative, it will not fall apart on the next try. The smart workflow is to render your general style first, then fix the script and add post-process effects in one retry. That is a high-end video ready to post, for about 60 extra seconds.
Yes. Upload your logo, set your brand colors, upload custom fonts (including an optional accent font) and text textures, and add your own photos or video as a backdrop. You can also upload your own voiceover, music and sound effects.
Voiceovers speak 22 languages, and you can clone your own voice, with expressions like laughs and whispers. You can also upload your own voiceover or music instead. Sound effects are added automatically and synced to every entrance and transition to the millisecond. The engine stretches them and adds reverb and more so they never repeat mechanically. You can also upload up to 6 of your own.
Yes. Post-process effects (deformers like water and liquid glass, glitch, halftone, dither, CMYK print, comic ink, color grades, VHS and film looks, and more) stack up to 3 per video. In captions, lyrics and Sleepy Pro each effect can target the background only, the subject only, or everything, using the automatic mask. That is how you get faceless edits, stylized subjects and beat-reactive flashes on the bass.
Yes, from the Creator plan up. Turn on the 2K badge before you generate.
Videos stay in your history for 14 days on the Free plan and 30 days on paid plans. Sleepy Motion is a creation tool, not a storage service, so download the videos you want to keep.
Brainrot Mode creates fun, viral-style split-screen videos: your motion graphics on top and an entertaining clip running underneath. Perfect for brands with a playful personality.
Yes, this is Composite Captions. Upload your video, vertical or horizontal, and the engine masks the subject frame by frame and renders animated motion graphics behind them, so the person stands in front of the moving text. It is the "text behind the subject" look editors normally rotoscope by hand in After Effects for hours, and that other tools make you build clip by clip, dragging the text into place each time. There is no step 2: you upload and it handles the masking, timing, placement and rendering. Placement looks like an editor positioned every screen by hand, and the captions follow the subject only when it matters, so it never looks like tracking.
Yes. Paste the exact words spoken in the video (or the exact lyrics) and the captions sync to them perfectly. Because Sleepy renders instead of generating, what you provide is exactly what you get. An exact script switches AI edit off, since your script then decides the words.
Yes, with AI edit on the Agency plan. Upload a raw take full of pauses, mumbling and wrong starts, turn on AI edit in Captions, and Sleepy cuts everything that does not belong, keeps what matters and delivers a tight, jump-cut edit with Classic or Composite captions on top. A rambling 2-minute recording can come back as a clean 1-minute or 30-second video, depending on how much of it is worth keeping. No timeline, no manual trimming.
Captions auto-detect a large multilingual set of languages (including English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and many more). Captions also translate: pick any language in the Caption language dropdown and your captions come out in it. Picking the language actually spoken helps the transcriber be even more accurate. Uploads are MP4 up to 150MB, vertical or horizontal.
Yes. Just ask Sleepy in the prompt ("make it in Japanese") or write your whole request in your language, and the motion graphics and voiceover come out in it. Voiceovers speak 22 languages: Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish and Turkish. That includes your own cloned voice, so you can make an ad in Japanese in your own voice.
Yes, that is Lyrics & Music Visualizer mode. Drop in a song (and optionally images or a video) and Sleepy Motion builds a beat-reactive edit with your lyrics synced automatically. Keep it simple with an audio visualizer, or upload a video and let the engine mask the subject and weave the lyrics through the visuals. It is available on every paid plan, from Starter up, for videos up to 30 seconds.
Yes. Masked edits turn the person in your footage into an anonymous silhouette filled with visuals, and post-process effects can restyle only the subject or only the world around them, with flashes on every bass beat. It is ideal for faceless content, dance edits and giving your own footage new life as fresh edits.
Free (3 videos/month), Starter ($5/month for 20 videos), Creator ($12/month for 60 videos) and Agency ($29/month for 200 videos). Paid plans remove the watermark and allow 30-second videos. Starter adds captions, video backgrounds and custom fonts (your logo and image backgrounds work on every plan), Creator adds 2K rendering and Sleepy Pro uploads, and Agency adds 2-minute caption uploads.
Absolutely. The Free plan gives you 3 videos per month with no credit card required, including every Sleepy Pro preset scene in HD.
You can upgrade your plan anytime, even mid-month. Unused videos do not roll over to the next month.
Yes. Change or cancel anytime. If you cancel, you keep access until the end of your billing period. No long-term contracts or cancellation fees.
All major credit cards (Visa, Mastercard, American Express) through our secure Stripe integration. Your payment information is never stored on our servers.
Click "Sign Up" and continue with Google, or use your email. Email sign-ups get a quick verification email.
Click "Forgot Password" on the login page and we will send you a secure link to reset it. Check your spam folder if you do not see it.
Yes. We use industry-standard encryption, are GDPR and CCPA compliant, and never share your data. Your videos are private to your account.
Yes. All videos you create are yours to use however you want: commercially, personally, on social media, in ads, anywhere. For lyrics and music edits, make sure you have the rights to the song and footage you upload.
Use the contact form on our website and our team will get back to you quickly. Our tutorials also walk through the main workflows.
Any modern browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge) on desktop, tablet or mobile. All you need is an internet connection.
AI video generators make clips, template editors need manual work, and caption tools put flat text on top of your video. Sleepy Motion delivers a finished motion graphics production: real kinetic typography, composition, voice, music and sound effects synced to the millisecond, in about 2 minutes. It renders graphics behind the subject in your own videos, applies masked post-process effects no caption tool offers, and with Sleepy Pro builds motion graphics into any scene. It delivers exactly what it promises.
The video itself is rendered by our own motion graphics engine, not by a generative model, so there is no AI-generated footage and nothing hallucinated. AI only fills in what you leave out: the script, the voice, and images in Composite and Designer modes. Bring your own audio, photos or a scene and Sleepy Motion can make a video with zero AI.
Anyone who wants high-end motion graphics without weeks in After Effects or a production budget: small businesses, marketers, agencies, content creators, musicians, editors, faceless channels and motion designers who want to multiply their output.
Yes. The homepage shows example videos, and presets and post-process effects have previews right in the generator, so you can see a look before you use it.
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