SaaS product animation in After Effects with AI
SaaS product animation in After Effects with AI starts with a Figma frame exported as SVG: ChatGPT, Claude or any MCP client connected to Prism imports it as shape layers with live text and animates it in your open comp.
A product video is the interface, moving: a cursor that clicks, a panel that slides, a number that counts, a callout that names the feature. Every tutorial redraws it in After Effects first. Here it comes in from the file the design team already has.
What you say, and what lands
| You type | What appears in your comp |
|---|---|
| "Import dashboard.svg with the text live. The sidebar slides in from the left, the cards rise one after another 80 ms apart, the header fades up last." | Shape layers per rectangle and icon, live text layers, position keyframes with an 80 ms stagger, opacity on the header |
| "Add a cursor: a white arrow that moves to the Export button over 0.8 s, pauses, clicks, and the button darkens for two frames." | A cursor shape layer with position keyframes and a named ease, a scale dip on the click, a fill keyframe on the button |
| "The Revenue tile counts from 0 to 48,200 with commas over 1.2 s, ease out." | Slider keyframes driving the number, the formatting as one expression |
| "Callout on the Share button: a line to a label reading 'Share a read-only link', draws on, holds 1.5 s." | A stroked path with a Trim Paths write-on, a text label fading in |
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How to do it
From a Figma frame to motion
| In the SVG | In After Effects |
|---|---|
| Frames, rectangles, auto-layout groups | shape layers, grouped as in Figma |
| Text | live text layers, typeable, font by its PostScript name |
| Vector icons | shape layers, recolourable |
| Screenshots or photos | imported separately as footage |
Brand system in the comp
| Rule | How it lands |
|---|---|
| Colour | a controller layer with colour controls; fills and strokes read them by expression, so one change repaints the comp |
| Font | one font across every text layer, swapped project-wide by name |
| Spacing | margins and gaps as slider controls; positions are expressions that read them |
| Timing | one stagger slider and the named eases reused across scenes |
No screen recording
The interface in the comp is the vector UI you exported, so a changed button label is a text edit, not a re-record.
What it needs
| After Effects | 2024, 2025 or 2026, macOS or Windows |
| AI client | any MCP client: ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and others |
| Plan | a Free account is enough; import and animation use MCP actions, not Prism AI credits |
What it does not do
It does not record your screen, capture a live app or fetch the frame from Figma: you export the SVG. It does not write a voiceover. A backdrop plate from a prompt is a Prism AI capability, paid from your balance, one image per run.
Common questions
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