Open Design Motion lets you create polished motion design videos from a single prompt — with any AI agent and any model, so you don’t need Opus 5.5. It’s part of Open Design, a free, open-source design agent workspace with about 102,000 GitHub stars, and it runs on free models inside OpenCode or Hermes Agent. In the video below I build, preview and export videos and auto-post them. Here’s how it works and how to set it up.
Key takeaways
- Open Design Motion is the 0.25.0 release of Open Design — the open-source alternative to Claude Motion.
- Make motion videos from one prompt, then edit, export to MP4 or keep them as HTML.
- Works with any agent (Hermes, OpenCode, Antigravity, Claude Code) and free models.
- Pair it with Blotato to auto-post videos and track analytics.
What Open Design Motion is
Open Design is a local-first, open-source workspace where AI agents create designs: websites, apps, dashboards, slide decks, documents, images — and now, with the Motion release, videos. The agent writes code, and Open Design turns it into a motion design you can preview, edit and export. The project calls it the open-source alternative to Claude Motion.
| Open Design at a glance | |
|---|---|
| What it is | An open-source, local-first AI design agent workspace |
| Made by | nexu-io (OpenDesign) |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 |
| GitHub | github.com/nexu-io/open-design — about 102K stars |
| Motion release | Open Design 0.25.0 — “OpenDesign Motion”, 15 October 2026 |
| Creates | Motion videos, websites, apps, dashboards, slide decks, documents and images |
| Works with | Coding agents such as Hermes Agent, OpenCode, Antigravity and Claude Code, plus local or API models |
| Exports | Editable source, MP4 video and runnable HTML |
One-prompt demo
Inside my agentic operating system, I opened Open Design and gave it one prompt: make a 20-second paper-cutout story — a trailer for Open Design. It built the whole thing in the background. You can preview it, look at the code the agent wrote, export it, or share it. Honestly, from what I’m seeing, the results are better than what a lot of human teams produce.
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How to set up Open Design Motion for free
- Get Open Design from the GitHub repository — the release page links to the desktop download.
- Choose your sign-in: OpenDesign Hosted, Local AI, or your own API key.
- Pick a free model — in OpenCode there are free options like LongCat, MiniMax, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, GLM 5.3 Flash and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.
- Pick your agent — Open Design scans for the agents and CLIs you already have, like Hermes Agent, OpenCode or Antigravity.
- Go to Home → Motion design and write your prompt.
That means both the tool and the AI model can be free.
Templates and what else you can make
- Motion templates — the release ships five examples: Motion Future, Product Promo, Showreel, UI Morph and Visual Lesson.
- Slide decks, documents and images.
- Websites and landing pages — including new website templates.
- HyperFrames for building more complex compositions.
- Live artifacts — live dashboards you can share, without needing Claude to build them.
Auto-post your videos with Blotato
Here’s where it gets really useful. Combine Open Design with Blotato, which can take the videos you create, post them across your platforms and analyse the results — including which platforms your content performs best on. The workflow becomes three steps: write the script, get it edited in Open Design, and post it with Blotato.
Edit, iterate and reuse
Open Design keeps your recent projects in one place with previews, so it’s easy to go back and build on something. Start a new chat, switch to motion design, and ask it to turn a previous piece into a new motion design. Give it your brand colours and it updates the design. And you can switch the model or agent at any point — it’s not tied to Claude.
Open Design Motion vs Claude Motion
| Open Design Motion | Claude Motion | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free and open source | Part of Claude |
| Models | Any model, including free ones | Claude models |
| Agents | Hermes, OpenCode, Antigravity, Claude Code and more | Claude |
| Organisation | Motion projects in one workspace with websites, decks and apps | Mixed in with your other chats |
| Export | Editable source, MP4, HTML | Claude’s export options |
Personally I prefer Open Design: I think the results look cleaner and more engaging, and it’s much easier to organise motion projects when they aren’t mixed in with all your other chats.
Does it run locally or online?
A viewer asked exactly this. Open Design is local-first: you run it on your own computer, and it can use local models. If you choose OpenDesign Hosted or a cloud model, those requests go to the relevant service. So you can keep everything on your machine, or use cloud models for speed — your choice.
Who Open Design Motion is for
- Creators who want reels and shorts without hiring an editor.
- Marketers making product promos, explainers and launch videos.
- Agencies producing motion content for clients at scale.
- Founders who want a trailer or demo video in minutes.
- Anyone running an agent OS who wants design built in.
My verdict on Open Design Motion
Open Design Motion is one of the most fun and useful free AI tools I’ve tried: one prompt, any agent, any model, real exports, and it plugs straight into an agentic operating system. Download it, connect a free model, and make your first motion video today.
FAQ: open design motion
What is Open Design Motion?
The motion design release (0.25.0) of Open Design, a free, open-source AI design agent workspace that creates motion videos from a prompt with any agent and any model.
Is Open Design Motion free?
Yes — Open Design is open source under Apache 2.0, and you can use free models with it.
Does Open Design run locally?
Yes — it’s local-first, though hosted and cloud model options send requests to those services.
Which agents work with Open Design?
Agents such as Hermes Agent, OpenCode, Antigravity and Claude Code.
Can I export videos from Open Design Motion?
Yes — as MP4, editable source, or runnable HTML.
Is it better than Claude Motion?
It’s free, works with any model and keeps motion projects organised; I prefer it for design quality and organisation.
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Last updated October 2026. This page is a living guide to open design motion — the facts here move fast and it is updated as they do.