Logo Assemble Lockup

roles served

• Product_Intro (from product-intro-logo-system-assemble): A wordless, premium brand STING — an abstract system of elements pulses / grows / orbits and assembles around a FIXED central logo, carried by one cinematic camera tilt; no copy, no UI.
• CTA (from cta-camera-push-lockup): The logo build is a LEAD-IN to the final ask — a 3D mark assembles + wordmark cascades, then a fast camera PUSH-THROUGH the mark’s negative space streaks giant CTA letters past the lens and resolves on a [url] / [CTA verb] lockup.
• CTA (from cta-button-wordmark-build): The “draws-its-own-outline → wordmark-builds-letter-by-letter” sub-shape — a [CTA button] pill strokes its own glowing border, a diagonal-band WIPE flips the frame, and the [wordmark] types in beside a slash to land the lockup. Camera static.
• Brand_Outro (from brand-outro-assemble-logo-lockup): The closing mark — a formation of [feature pills / UI elements] CLEARS the stage off all four edges, then on the empty frame the [logo mark] draws itself on stroke-by-stroke and the [wordmark] reveals to complete the lockup, then fades out.
• Product_Intro (from brand-reveal-assemble-zoom): a context-then-focus reveal — a companion tagline TYPES out to set context, the hero mark pops in beside it, then the companion exits as the layout recenters and the camera pushes IN to a held close-up on the mark (wide composition narrowing to a tight focus).
• Product_Intro (from logo-parts-lockup-assembly): the literal parts build — [icon parts] (a glowing dot traces a circle, semi-circles scale up and overlap, strokes rotate in) converge into the [brand icon] center-frame on a flat / gradient field, the [wordmark] joins (± a [badge pill] pops onto the lockup), then a payoff beat: a stepped bottom [subtitle rail], a big [count-up stat] over a faint asset grid, or the lockup clears and a [product UI window] scales in. Static frame, all element-level.
• CTA (from text-clears-mark-blooms-lockup): the text-clear BLOOM — centered [serif tagline] beats (word-by-word staggered fades) hold, then CLEAR themselves to a blank frame; the [brand mark] spring-blooms from ZERO at dead center, slides left as the [wordmark] reveals to its right, and the balanced lockup holds (near-)still. Constant warm flat bg, static frame.
• Brand_Outro (from phrase-morphs-into-lockup): the MORPH chain — a centered [phrase] mutates in place, then collapses / swaps into an [intermediate glyph] whose line panels fan-and-flip around a central pivot with visible motion blur (page-flip feel) and interlock into the [geometric mark], which slides apart into the lockup. One unbroken chain of transformation, never a cut-and-replace assembly; the finished lockup holds dead static for the final ~40–50% of runtime.
• Brand_Outro (from lead-text-then-mark-assembles): the parts-arrive build — a [hand-off line] holds and departs, then the mark is BUILT from arriving parts ([icon] drops in, letters slide in one by one, terminal punctuation lands, a confetti burst pops and instantly shrinks) OR a [pixel stack] streaks into full-width multicolor stripes whose tail retracts and is ABSORBED into the pixel mark — finishing as a lockup or a full end card ([icon tile] + [title] + [URL pill] + store badges) held static.
• Brand_Outro (from settled-lockup-reveal): the null-assembly boundary — the [lockup] is on stage from frame one; [satellite shapes] drift outward and fade, an accent underline sweeps beneath the wordmark, and the [tagline] wipes in to complete it. Settle-and-reveal: no predecessor beat, no morph, no relay.

duration: ~4.4–11.0s (Brand_Outro ~4.4–7.3s · brand-reveal ~5s · CTA text-clear bloom 6.0–8.9s · Product_Intro ~7s orbit sting, 7.0–9.8s parts-assembly · CTA push/build 5.4–11.0s)

shot structure (one consolidated time-coded template; [slots] are product-agnostic)

• Scene 1 — clear / ignite (0.0–~1.0s): the stage is prepared for the mark to build into.

  • Variant — Product_Intro: opens on a clean [light bg] with faint concentric guide rings under a flat top-down view; rings PULSE and expand from center; mid-beat the bg crossfades [light]→[dark gradient: hero→secondary], tiny seed dots appear along the rings, and the central [logo mark]‘s glow IGNITES (mark is present from t=0, fixed, front-facing).
  • Variant — CTA push: on a [bg gradient], the [logo mark] is settling in object space (a 3D mark with thin wireframe edge-guides + a faint bracket motif behind center); a very slow continuous camera push-in may already be creeping.
  • Variant — CTA button-build: on a [dark grid bg], a rounded [CTA button "label"] pill rises / scales into center (a prior headline clearing off the top); its thin border DRAWS ON as an animated glowing outline STROKE, with a small [accent] comet / spark icon at its left edge.
  • Variant — Brand_Outro: a PRE-ARRANGED formation of [feature pills / element grid] (each [icon]+[label]) DISPERSES — elements slide outward from their laid-out positions and fly off all four frame edges (edge-clearing drift, NOT a center-origin burst), emptying the frame onto a clean [bg].
  • Variant — Product_Intro parts-assembly (from logo-parts-lockup-assembly): optional text hook — a centered “[Meet product]“ line wipes away right→left — or straight into the build; on a flat / gradient [bg], the first [icon parts] arrive: a glowing dot traces a clockwise circle, a gradient semi-circle scales up inside it, or the mark scales-up-with-rotate into center.
  • Variant — CTA text-clear bloom (from text-clears-mark-blooms-lockup): a centered [serif tagline / question] (± an outlined [badge pill]) finishes a left→right word-staggered reveal in the first ~0.5–1s (each word passing light-grey→dark) and HOLDS; optional rolling word-by-word swap to a second [availability line]. Then the CLEAR: text exits — shrink-toward-center + fade, or word-by-word left-first fade-out — leaving a blank frame for a beat.
  • Variant — Brand_Outro morph-chain (from phrase-morphs-into-lockup): a centered [phrase] completes or mutates in place (a vertical slot-machine word swap — one word exits up as its replacement rises from below, rest of the line fixed — or a word-by-word landing) and holds. Nothing clears: the phrase IS the raw material for the mark.
  • Variant — Brand_Outro parts-arrive (from lead-text-then-mark-assembles): a centered [hand-off line: tagline / "Brought to you by"] holds on a flat canvas, then exits — slides straight down off-frame with fade, or fades away behind the incoming flourish.
  • Variant — Brand_Outro settled-reveal (from settled-lockup-reveal): the [lockup] is already centered at t=0; [satellite shapes] drift slowly outward around it — an INVERTED clear: the decorations leave, the mark stays.

• Scene 2 — assemble the mark (~1.0–~Ys): the mark builds itself from parts.

  • Variant — Product_Intro: seed dots SCALE UP into flat [accent] shapes arranged on the rings; concentric bands ripple outward (tunneling feel) and the shapes begin to ORBIT / drift around the still-fixed center.
  • Variant — CTA push: the [wordmark] CASCADES out from behind the mark (letters left→right with overshoot) into the full [brand lockup]; the 3D mark may assemble in beats (a terminal detaches + pops as a spring dot, a part hinges-open-and-snaps-shut elastic). Optional beat: a [cursor] arcs in and “clicks” the wordmark, OR a frosted-glass pill holding an intermediate [CTA line] springs in while layered mark shells fan to the edges.
  • Variant — CTA button-build: a graphic WIPE flips the frame to [contrast bg] — a thin [accent] diagonal line sweeps in, swells into a full-frame diagonal BAND, then collapses to a small [accent] slash.
  • Variant — Brand_Outro: on the now-clear frame, the [logo mark] DRAWS ON via stroke (built arc-by-arc / segment-by-segment).
  • Variant — Product_Intro parts-assembly: the overlapping parts COMPLETE the [brand icon] (a second circle overlaps to close the orb; strokes interlock); the [wordmark] slides out from behind the icon or in from its right; a small [badge pill] pops onto the lockup.
  • Variant — CTA text-clear bloom: on the blank frame the [brand mark] scales up from ZERO at dead center with a snappy spring ease (slight overshoot, hint of rotation as it grows) — the whole mark at once, no parts.
  • Variant — Brand_Outro morph-chain: the phrase collapses / wipes horizontally into the mark, OR is instantly swapped at the same center for a line-art [intermediate icon] whose strokes split into panels that fan-and-flip around a central pivot with visible motion blur, interlock-settling into the [geometric mark]. Never a cut to the finished logo — the transformation must stay unbroken.
  • Variant — Brand_Outro parts-arrive: the mark is BUILT from arriving parts — the [icon] drops in from above, letters slide in one by one, terminal punctuation lands, a tiny confetti burst pops and instantly shrinks — OR a colored [pixel stack] pops in at a text edge, shoots horizontally stretching into full-width multicolor stripes, then the stripe tail retracts and is ABSORBED into the [pixel mark] (mask retraction).
  • Variant — Brand_Outro settled-reveal: an accent underline sweeps left→right beneath the — the only “build” this variant performs.

• Scene 3 — resolve to lockup (~Ys–end): the lockup completes and holds (Product_Intro / Brand_Outro) or is flown into / extended to a CTA (CTA variants).

  • Variant — Product_Intro (the ONE camera move): the whole system smoothly TILTS from flat top-down into an angled isometric perspective (ease-in-out) with a slight zoom-out — flat shapes become luminous 3D forms, bands become glowing orbit lines, while the central [logo mark] does NOT tilt (stays 2D, front-facing, fixed). Camera eases to a stop; elements keep continuous orbit/drift (inner faster than outer); the mark holds its steady glow. Final settled frame.
  • Variant — CTA push (the signature): a single fast CAMERA PUSH-THROUGH the mark’s negative space / through the glass pill — heavy horizontal motion-blur, giant [CTA] letters streaking past the lens (cursor drops out). Resolves to the final lockup on a saturated [bg]: a [url badge] / [CTA line] revealed by a left→right WIPE carrying an [accent] leading edge (or a clean fade), with solid mark-shapes parallax-sliding in behind. Settles to a dead-static hold (slow zoom-out / settle).
  • Variant — CTA button-build: the [wordmark] BUILDS letter-by-letter to the right of the slash, landing on the final “[slash] [WORDMARK]“ lockup centered on the new bg. Slow settle to static.
  • Variant — Brand_Outro: the [wordmark] reveals beside the drawn mark (slide / fade) to complete the [lockup]; the lockup holds, then fades to [black / bg].
  • Variant — Product_Intro parts-assembly (the payoff beat): the finished lockup holds while a bottom [subtitle box] steps through [tagline fragments] (swap-in-place); or a big [count-up stat] line lands over a faint background asset grid; or the lockup scales-down / fades and a [product UI window] scales up on the flat bg (its panel content may swap once). The build hands off to product proof.
  • Variant — CTA text-clear bloom: the mark slides a short distance LEFT while the [wordmark] reveals to its right (letter-by-letter / slide-out wipe with visible partial states); the balanced “[mark] + [wordmark]“ lockup centers and holds, one member continuing an almost imperceptible slow scale-up through the hold.
  • Variant — Brand_Outro morph-chain: the mark slides left as the [wordmark] is pulled out rightward trailing a motion-blur streak, the pair decelerating into the centered lockup (± a [sub-line] fades in below). The hold is LONG — dead static for the final ~40–50% of runtime.

motion vocabulary: ring pulse / expand; background crossfade (light→dark); glow ignite; seed-dot scale-up; continuous orbit / drift (inner faster than outer); single 3D perspective tilt (flat→isometric) + slight zoom-out around a fixed 2D anchor; 3D logo assemble (part detach + spring dot, clapperboard hinge / snap, shell fan-out); wordmark cascade with overshoot (letters left→right); button pill rise / scale-in; animated stroke-outline DRAW + glow (button border AND logo mark); comet / spark accent; diagonal-band wipe (sweep → swell → collapse-to-slash); letter-by-letter wordmark build; pre-formed grid DISPERSE off all four edges; logo-mark stroke-draw (sequential arcs / segments); fast CAMERA PUSH-THROUGH with motion-blur (CTA spine); continuous slow push-in / push-out; cursor arc-in + click; parallax shape slide-in; left→right URL/badge wipe with glowing leading edge; static / fade-out end-lockup hold; optional idle breathe on the held mark; glowing-dot circular path trace; part-overlap icon completion (semi-circles scale up + overlap); scale-up-with-rotate mark entrance; wordmark slide-out-from-behind-icon; badge pill pop onto the lockup; stepped subtitle swap-in-place (bottom rail); count-up stat tick over a faint asset grid; lockup shrink / fade → UI-window scale-up payoff; word-by-word staggered fade-through-grey (in, and left-first out); rolling word-by-word line swap; shrink-toward-center + fade clearing exit; whole-mark spring BLOOM from zero (overshoot + slight rotation); near-imperceptible continuous scale-up through the hold; vertical slot-machine word swap; horizontal phrase collapse / wipe into the mark; instant same-center text→icon swap; line-panel fan-and-flip morph around a central pivot with motion blur (page-flip feel); interlock-settle into the geometric mark; wordmark pull-out trailing a motion-blur streak; lead-line slide-down-off-bottom exit; icon drop-in from above; sequential per-letter slide-in + terminal punctuation landing; confetti burst pop-then-instant-shrink; pixel-stack pop at a text edge; horizontal streak-stretch into full-width stripes; stripe-tail retraction absorbed into the mark (mask retraction); rounded-tile scale-up enclosing the mark; bottom metadata row fade / slide-up (URL pill + store badges); satellite shapes outward drift + fade; left→right underline sweep; left→right tagline wipe-in.

rule mapping (per motion verb → rules/<id>.md)

• ring pulse / expand from center → center-outward-expansion (radiate from a shared center; reuse the 0→1 progress driver)
• background crossfade (light→dark gradient) → plain opacity/background tween via gsap-effects (no dedicated rule needed)
• glow ignite on the mark → asr-keyword-glow (envelope-driven glow on the brand element)
• seed-dot scale-up into shapes → spring-pop-entrance (scale-in pop; alt scale-swap-transition if dots morph into shapes)
• continuous orbit / drift around fixed center → orbit-3d-entry (flip-in then continuous elliptical orbit; center label = the fixed mark)
• single 3D perspective tilt (flat→isometric) + slight zoom-out → multi-phase-camera (scripted scale phases on a scene-wrapping camera, for the zoom-out) — see camera modifier; the FLAT→ISOMETRIC plane tilt of the whole stage is a CSS-3D perspective move (techniques.md CSS-3D, animating the stage’s rotateX) — no exact camera rule for the plane-tilt, approximate via CSS-3D (closest reference is orbit-3d-entry‘s “Tilted orbit plane” variation animated over time)
• fixed 2D anchor logo amid moving universe → no motion rule needed (static anchor; intentional — it’s the absence of motion, the universe moves around it)
• 3D logo assemble — part detach + spring dot → spring-pop-entrance (spring pop, back.out overshoot)
• 3D logo assemble — hinge open / snap (clapperboard) → hacker-flip-3d (the 3D-rotate axis) + techniques.md CSS-3D (the elastic open-and-snap-shut hinge is an adaptation of the 3D-rotate)
• 3D logo assemble — shell fan-out to edges → center-outward-expansion (run outward from the mark center)
• wordmark cascade with overshoot (letters left→right) → recipe gsap-effects (per-element staggered slide) + spring-pop-entrance (the back.out overshoot per letter)
• button pill rise / scale-in → spring-pop-entrance (scale-in; alt scale-swap-transition)
• animated stroke-outline draw + glow (button border) → svg-path-draw (stroke-dashoffset draw) + asr-keyword-glow (the glow on the drawn stroke)
• comet / spark accent on button → asr-keyword-glow (small glow accent); motion path via techniques.md GSAP MotionPathPlugin (#9)
• diagonal-band wipe (sweep → swell → collapse-to-slash) → techniques.md clip-path reveal (#12, animate a polygon(...) diagonal across the frame; the swell-then-collapse-to-slash is the same clip-path reveal driven through grow→shrink keyframes)
• letter-by-letter wordmark build → discrete-text-sequence (smooth-slice / per-state build); recipe gsap-effects (typewriter / appending words)
• pre-formed grid disperse off all four edges → not a rule gap: a formation flying off-frame is an EXIT, and the pipeline forbids mid-video exits — the harness transition IS the exit (only the final frame may exit the stage). Treat this as transition-handled / final-frame-only rather than an in-scene motion rule. (If staged in-scene as a reveal-the-mark clear, it reuses center-outward-expansion run OUTWARD — center→target machinery interpolating formation→offscreen targets, out-easing.)
• logo-mark stroke-draw (sequential arcs / segments) → svg-path-draw (the canonical multi-segment stagger draw)
• wordmark slide / fade reveal beside drawn mark → svg-path-draw (its “brand-line fades in after stroke” tail) ; slide via spring-pop-entrance
• fast camera push-through with motion-blur → multi-phase-camera (a hard push phase) — see camera modifier; the heavy motion-blur streak itself → motion-blur-streak (directional velocity blur on the fast push-through)
• continuous slow push-in / push-out → multi-phase-camera (phase scale + drift)
• cursor arc-in + click on the wordmark → cursor-click-ripple (move → click → ripple); arc path via techniques.md MotionPathPlugin (#9)
• parallax shape slide-in behind lockup → depth-scatter-assemble (parallax depth slide-in of shapes at differing depths; pair with 3d-text-depth-layers for the depth ordering)
• left→right URL / badge wipe with glowing leading edge → techniques.md clip-path reveal (#12, animate inset() left→right); the glowing leading edge → asr-keyword-glow
• static / fade-out end-lockup hold → no motion rule needed (terminal hold / opacity fade; intentional)
• idle breathe on held mark (optional) → sine-wave-loop (post-settle breathing)
• glowing-dot circular path trace → svg-path-draw (the traced circle draws on) + techniques.md MotionPathPlugin (#9) for the leading dot riding the path tip
• part-overlap icon completion / semi-circle scale-up → spring-pop-entrance (per-part scale-in; place parts at their final overlap positions from setup — the overlap IS the completed mark)
• scale-up-with-rotate mark entrance → spring-pop-entrance (add a rotation from-value to the pop)
• wordmark slide-out-from-behind-icon → recipe gsap-effects (x-slide) under a clip / overflow mask via techniques.md clip-path reveal (#12); z-order the icon above the sliding text
• badge pill pop onto the lockup → spring-pop-entrance
• stepped subtitle swap-in-place (bottom rail) → discrete-text-sequence (whole-state replacement at time thresholds); derive the windows via dynamic-content-sequencing
• count-up stat tick over a faint asset grid → counting-dynamic-scale; the faint grid is a plain opacity fade (no rule needed)
• lockup shrink / fade → UI-window payoff → scale-swap-transition (exit cluster shrinks + fades at center; window pops in with back.out)
• word-by-word staggered fade-through-grey (in / left-first out) → recipe gsap-effects (per-word staggered opacity + color tween). Deliberately a quiet FADE register — do NOT substitute waterfall-entry here; its binary-arrival doctrine is the wrong voice for this serif beat
• rolling word-by-word line swap → two overlapping gsap-effects word staggers at the same timeline position (old line out left-first, new line in left→right)
• shrink-toward-center + fade clearing exit → scale-swap-transition (its exit half; the entrance half is the bloom)
• whole-mark spring BLOOM from zero → spring-pop-entrance (single hero, back.out overshoot, slight rotation from-value)
• near-imperceptible continuous scale-up through the hold → no motion rule needed (one long linear micro-tween on the held lockup; intentional life-in-the-hold)
• vertical slot-machine word swap → vertical-spring-ticker (masked column, stepped tween — one word slot cycles, rest of the line fixed)
• horizontal phrase collapse / wipe into the mark → scale-swap-transition (same-center morph) with the collapse via techniques.md clip-path reveal (#12)
• instant same-center text→icon swap → no motion rule needed (tl.set hard swap; intentional — the chain’s continuity lives in the NEXT beat’s morph)
• line-panel fan-and-flip morph (page-flip, motion-blurred) → hacker-flip-3d (the per-panel 3D rotation axis) + motion-blur-streak (the blur) + techniques.md CSS-3D; true stroke-interpolation glyph morphs live in hyperframes-keyframes (SVG morph) — reach there if panels can’t sell it
• interlock-settle into the geometric mark → center-outward-expansion machinery run INWARD (per-panel transform offsets tween to 0 in lockstep with one driver)
• wordmark pull-out trailing a motion-blur streak → motion-blur-streak (echo / ghost trail collapsing into the lead) on the x-slide
• lead-line slide-down-off-bottom exit → in-scene clearing beat; same doctrine as the grid-disperse row above (offscreen target + out-easing; prefer the harness transition when the exit IS the scene boundary)
• icon drop-in from above → spring-pop-entrance (y-offset from-value, overshoot on landing)
• sequential per-letter slide-in + terminal punctuation landing → waterfall-entry (staggered arrival cascade on a lateral axis; the punctuation is the cascade’s final, heaviest beat)
• confetti burst pop-then-instant-shrink → press-release-spring (“release burst” variation) for a small deterministic burst; a true multi-particle confetti field → particle-burst
• pixel-stack pop at a text edge → spring-pop-entrance (tight stagger down the stack)
• horizontal streak-stretch into full-width stripes → plain scaleX stretch via gsap-effects (transform-origin at the stack) + motion-blur-streak for the streak read
• stripe-tail retraction absorbed into the mark → techniques.md clip-path reveal (#12) run in REVERSE (animated inset() retraction reading as mask absorption into the mark)
• rounded-tile scale-up enclosing the mark → spring-pop-entrance (scale-in BEHIND the mark; z-order only, mark never moves)
• bottom metadata row fade / slide-up → spring-pop-entrance (staggered group, ≤500ms cap)
• satellite shapes outward drift + fade → center-outward-expansion run OUTWARD (drift targets past frame edge) + opacity tail; if the drift must idle first, seed it with sine-wave-loop
• left→right underline sweep → css-marker-patterns (highlight sweep re-skinned as an underline) or stat-bars-and-fills progress-fill scaleX
• left→right tagline wipe-in → the existing “left→right URL / badge wipe” row applies unchanged (clip-path inset())

camera modifier (the push / tilt)

• CTA push-through (the CTA spine): a scripted hard zoom phase on a scene-wrapping camera → multi-phase-camera (“Steady push” / “Bookend pull” pattern; push phase = the climax). When the mark is OFF-center and the camera must fly through a specific point of negative space, combine with coordinate-target-zoom (outer scales, inner counter-translates so the target negative-space point lands at viewport center as scale ramps; measure the offset at setup). The signature heavy horizontal MOTION-BLUR on the streak → motion-blur-streak (directional velocity blur on the push); realize with a CSS filter: blur() / duplicated-streak layer on the camera during the push window.
• Product_Intro tilt (the one cinematic move): the flat→isometric perspective tilt + slight zoom-out is a single scripted camera beat → multi-phase-camera (scale phase + the “Targeted zoom into off-center element” / drift machinery) for the zoom-out. multi-phase-camera is scale+translate+drift only, so the perspective-PLANE rotateX (flat top-down → angled isometric) of the whole stage is the CSS-3D move noted above — approximate via techniques.md CSS-3D, animating the stage’s rotateX (closest reference is orbit-3d-entry‘s “Tilted orbit plane” variation animated over time).
• Static-frame variants: the parts-assembly, text-clear bloom, morph-chain, parts-arrive, and settled-reveal variants are all COMPLETELY static-frame (element-level motion only; settled-reveal tolerates at most a very slow global zoom-out). The camera modifier applies only to the CTA push and the Product_Intro tilt.