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What you get
- A one-page hero and a paste-in embed with your name, words, numbers and links
- The sign cut out of every frame and drawn over the giant headline
- The intro animation tied to the film's own clock, so words and picture stay in step
- A phone layout: the headline stays in the frame, the introduction and buttons move into a block underneath
- Stills of the last frame for reduced motion, no WebGL, blocked autoplay or a slow connection, so it is never blank
- A 1080p MP4 with the film's sound and a poster, rendered frame by frame
- Checks at 390, 768, 1280 and 1920 px for overflow, overlaps, links and script errors
- Open-source licenses for every part it builds on
Good fit
- Late-night, travel and hospitality brands can open on a neon sign buzzing on over a desert motel at dusk, with the sky turning from pink to blue.
- Anyone who wants words behind a moving subject gets a giant block headline with the sign cut out of every frame and drawn over it.
- Brands with a real number to show can have a stat count up from zero during the film, beside a postage stamp and a postmark in their own words.
Not for
- Swapping in your own video: the matte is made for this film, and the scene (a neon motel sign at dusk) is the design
- Changing the colors, fonts or layout through settings (every word, number and link is yours; the look is fixed)
- Long headlines: each field has a length limit the build enforces
- Sound on the live page (browsers only autoplay muted video; the MP4 keeps the sound)
- Full landing pages below the hero (see the Landing Pages series)
About this skill
A website hero on five seconds of generated footage: a neon MOTEL sign with a star and an arrow buzzes into life over a desert motel at dusk while the sky turns from pink to deep blue. A giant cream block headline sits behind the sign, which is cut out of every frame and drawn over the words, with a neon script word that flickers on letter by letter above it. Around it: a neon wordmark and links, a key-fob button, a postage stamp and postmark, counting stats and film grain. Your agent writes one hero.json with your words and links; the build checks every length and writes a page and an embed, and a recorder makes a 1080p MP4 with sound.
Example request
Make a Neon Motel hero for our late-night delivery app: script word 'Late', big words 'Open late', our links and buttons, and record the video for our launch post.
How it works
Your agent
- 1
Collect the words
Every number, price and claim must come from the person.
- 2
Write hero.json
Copy
<skill>/examples/vacancy/hero.json(Vacancy, an app for booking independent motels) and replace every value. - 3
Build
It lists every problem at once (a missing field, a word too long for its place, a bad link) and writes nothing until they're fixed.
- 4
Check
It serves the page on localhost and opens it at 390, 768, 1280 and 1920 px wide and with reduced motion.
- 5
Look at it
Open the address it prints.
- 6
Record the video (optional)
Writes
out/preview.mp4(1920×1080, 30 fps, five seconds, with the film's sound) andout/poster.png(the last moment). - 7
Put it on the site
Either use
out/index.htmlas the page, or pasteout/embed.htmlinto an existing page and copyout/assets/next to it (or change the fourassets/paths to where you host them).
- 1
You get
- out/preview.mp4
- out/poster.png
- out/index.html
- out/embed.html


What you need
- Node.js 18 or newer. Nothing to install.
- Chrome, Chromium or Edge, for the checks and the video (the scripts find it; set
CHROME_PATHif they don't). - ffmpeg for the video (
brew install ffmpeg,winget install ffmpeg,apt install ffmpeg; or setFFMPEG_PATH). - A web server for the page. Opened straight from disk (
file://) browsers won't let the page draw the film, and it shows the still;node scripts/serve.mjs outserves it on localhost. - Internet access when the page is opened: GSAP and the fonts load from jsDelivr (pinned, with an integrity hash) and Google Fonts. Without GSAP the hero shows its still with every word in place.
Last checked Oct 26, 2026: the package’s own build and render commands ran and passed.
If something goes wrong
The page shows a still picture instead of the film
It was opened from disk; run
node scripts/serve.mjs outand open the address. If it still shows the still, the section'sdata-fh-stillattribute says why (reduced-motion,no-webgl,autoplay-blocked,film-failed,film-slow,no-timeline).The film doesn't play on the live site but did locally
The film is on another domain without CORS headers. Serve
assets/from the same site as the page, or addAccess-Control-Allow-Originon the CDN.The build says a field is too long
Shorten the words. The giant headline is sized for up to 9 characters and the script word for 6.
What’s in the download
- SKILL.md10.3 KBthese instructions.
- examples/
- examples/vacancy/1.29 KB1 file
- scripts/
- scripts/kit/the Footage Heroes kit the four scripts run (
build.mjs,runtime.jsfor the browser,frame.css,check.mjs,serve.mjs,record.mjs,cdp.mjs);scripts/kit/KIT.mdsays how it fits together. - scripts/kit/build.mjs13.6 KB
- scripts/kit/cdp.mjs4.90 KB
- scripts/kit/check.mjs5.48 KB
- scripts/kit/frame.css2.24 KB
- scripts/kit/KIT.md4.52 KB
- scripts/kit/record.mjs7.23 KB
- scripts/kit/runtime.js7.94 KB
- scripts/kit/serve.mjs2.55 KB
- scripts/build.mjs146 Bchecks
hero.jsonagainsttemplate/fields.jsonand writes the page, the embed and the assets. - scripts/check.mjs146 Bserves the page and checks it at four widths and with reduced motion.
- scripts/chrome.mjs3.63 KBfinds Chrome, Chromium or Edge.
- scripts/record.mjs148 Brenders the words frame by frame and lays them on the film with ffmpeg:
preview.mp4with sound andposter.png, or one still. - scripts/serve.mjs146 Bserves a built hero on localhost to look at.
- template/
- template/fields.json2.93 KBevery field of
hero.jsonwith its limit, plus the film's length and the hero's colours and fonts. - template/hero.html10.6 KBthe design: its CSS, the layer behind the sign, the layer in front, and the GSAP timeline.
- NOTICE.md1.20 KB
- TESTED.json237 B
19 files · 79.1 KB · installs to ~/.claude/skills/neon-motel-hero for Claude Code and ~/.agents/skills/neon-motel-hero for other agents
Credits and licenses: NOTICE.md plus any LICENSE files inside the ZIP.
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- Output
- Retro hero on generated footage · words behind the subject · page + embed · 1080p MP4 with sound
- Needs
- Node.js 18+, Chrome, and ffmpeg for the video; the page needs a web server (a local one is included)
- Series
- Footage Heroes · 8 skills
- Updated
- Oct 26, 2026
- Checked
- Oct 26, 2026: its own commands ran and passed. That is a working check, not a security audit.
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Can I put my own video behind the headline?
No. The matte that cuts the sign out was made for this film, so the footage is part of the design, and the sign says MOTEL. Every word, number and link is yours through hero.json; the footage, colors, fonts and layout stay as they are.
How long can the words be?
The neon script word takes up to 6 letters, the giant block words up to 9 characters with the space, and the wordmark up to 10. The build lists every field that is too long and writes nothing until they are fixed. The check fails if anything spills or overlaps.
What do visitors see if the film cannot play?
The last frame and the sign cut out of it, as pictures, with every word in place. That covers reduced motion, no WebGL or GSAP, blocked autoplay, a film that takes more than 8 seconds to start, or a page opened from disk instead of a web server.
Which agents is Neon Motel Hero written for?
Any agent that reads SKILL.md folders, including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI and OpenCode.
Do I own what I make with it?
Yes. Everything your agent makes with this skill is yours, including for client and commercial work.
What if it doesn’t work for me?
Email support@lookbk.dev within 7 days of buying and we’ll fix it or refund you.
Credits and licensesBuilt on greensock/GSAP
What Lookbk adds on top of greensock/GSAP (Standard License): the footage, which was generated for Lookbk (a still image animated into film, with the matte cut from every frame), and the layout, template and Footage Heroes kit, all written for Lookbk. GSAP (free under its Standard License) loads from a pinned CDN with SRI; the fonts are from Google Fonts.
Credits and licenses for the open-source software and fonts it uses are in NOTICE.md inside the download.







