> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.imagine.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Motion Design > Turn a product into a storyboard-driven motion graphics ad — pick a style, generate scene-by-scene, then refine each scene independently. Motion Design turns a product photo into a motion-graphics-style ad built from a storyboard: a set of individually generated scenes, not one single video generation. It shares its product picker with [URL to Ad](/ad-studio/url-to-ad), then branches into its own storyboard flow once you've picked a style. Motion Design product picker, the same component URL to Ad uses, with existing products and a failed pull visible ## How Motion Design works In the left sidebar under **Tools**, click **Motion Design**. This opens the same product picker as URL to Ad — paste a URL, upload images, or pick an existing product from your library or the preset categories. On **Choose a style**, describe the video, the product, and the vibe, then pick a style template — Product Showcase, SaaS Explainer, Mobile App Launch, Brand Campaign, Location Promotion, and more. Choose a style screen with a prompt box, a grid of style templates, and Model, Resolution, and Aspect ratio controls Motion Design is scoped to ByteDance's Seedance lineup only — a narrower, purpose-built set compared to the much larger model list in the general Video tool. Select model dialog showing only three Seedance video model variants -- Seedance 2, Seedance 2.5, and Seedance 2.0 Mini | Model | Credits | Resolution | Duration | Notes | | ----------------- | ------- | ---------- | -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- | | Seedance 2 | 730 | 4K–1080p | 4–15s | ByteDance's latest video model | | Seedance 2.5 | 530 | 480p–1080p | 4–30s | ByteDance's latest video model, longest max duration | | Seedance 2.0 Mini | 175 | 480p–720p | 5–15s | Lightweight, fast, built for multi-shot video — the default | All three support Start/End frame control and audio. Click **Create Storyboard**. This kicks off a multi-stage background job — computing grid geometry, assembling a "mega-prompt," generating the storyboard, then receiving split frames. Generating your storyboard progress screen with named pipeline stages and a note that it's safe to come back later Generation is genuinely asynchronous, not just a progress bar. Click the minimize button on the generation screen and keep working anywhere else in Ad Studio — the **Motion Design** entry in the left sidebar shows a live spinner until the storyboard is ready, confirming it keeps running in the background rather than blocking the rest of the app. Ad Studio sidebar showing a live spinner on the Motion Design tool while a storyboard generates in the background **This can genuinely take longer than "several minutes."** The generation screen itself says to expect several minutes, but in testing a single storyboard was still generating well past the 8-minute mark. Don't assume a stall — check back later rather than retrying. ## What you get back Motion Design doesn't generate one clip — it produces a **storyboard of individual scenes**, based on real, first-hand tester feedback from the team (not yet independently re-verified end-to-end in this pass, since a real generation was still running past 8 minutes during this documentation session): * **Per-scene editing.** Each scene in the storyboard can be regenerated on its own without affecting the others — useful for fixing one weak beat in an otherwise good sequence. * **Working background generation.** The product photo carries through into a real generated background per scene, not a placeholder. * **Premium output.** The finished export includes typography and transitions applied automatically, not just raw clips stitched together. **Not the same as Film Studio's Storyboard mode.** Both features use the word "storyboard," but they're different mechanisms. [Film Studio's Storyboard mode](/film-studio/create-image#storyboard-mode) generates a single contact-sheet grid image that you manually split into frames. Motion Design's storyboard is an automated multi-scene pipeline purpose-built for ads — you don't do the splitting yourself. ## When to use Motion Design * You want a polished, template-driven motion graphics ad rather than a single straight-through video generation. * You're open to a longer, asynchronous generation in exchange for a multi-scene result with independently editable beats. * You want typography and transitions applied automatically rather than adding them yourself afterward. If you want the fastest possible single clip instead, use [URL to Ad](/ad-studio/url-to-ad) or the main workspace's video generation.