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You've seen these animated covers running on loop on Apple Music and wondered, how did they do that? You maybe even considered asking your high school buddy Ted who took a design class to help you out and create one. Heck, you might have even tried to do one yourself but then figured you haven't got the chops to apply for a design internship.
Well you don't need to worry about any of that anymore. But you do need to know that those covers, they are known as Album Motion, and with Musixmatch Pro's new tool, Animated Artwork, you can make your own, quickly and hassle-free.
Animated Artwork is a mini-cinematic moment that can enhance your music. It's a short-form video, produced by a deeper imagination of your album cover. The album's motion artwork appears in Apple Music when your song is played or in a playlist, designed to entice new listeners and enhance the storytelling and visual experience for existing ones.
So let's discuss why Animated Artwork tools matter for artists and labels and why and how the Musixmatch Pro Animated Artwork tool works, so you can get started on creating your own album motion covers.
You've worked incredibly hard on putting out your music, but with over 120,000 new tracks being added to Apple Music every day, standing out is challenging- especially if you don't have the tools or skills to do it efficiently and at the highest quality. Despite these challenges, you must take every possible opportunity to support the promotional, marketing, and platform requirements to effectively promote your music. Album motion artwork alone can increase social media engagement by up to 30% compared to static images. This is a huge determining factor in whether listeners can find your music and become fans. And it's precisely why you need tools like Musixmatch Pro.
As an artist, your focus is on creating music, not developing marketing strategies and promotions. When you use tools like Animated Artwork on Musixmatch Pro, you get high-quality, designer-quality content without any skills needed. We've designed a user interface that allows you to create album motion covers in seconds, giving you more time to do what matters. The ability to customize your output ensures that you retain creative control over the process. And arguably the most crucial element is pricing; with Musixmatch Pro, you get your first animated Artwork for free!
For labels and managers, a crucial aspect of any effective tool is the ability to scale while maintaining quality and meeting industry standards. With Musixmatch Pro's Animated Artwork, labels can produce high-quality content at scale, allowing you to create album motion easily for all the artists you manage. Not only does this shorten your production timeline and marketing workload, but it also ensures that visual consistency is at the forefront of your content, so you won't have to worry about your branding.
What makes the Animated Artwork tool superior to other album motion generators is that we protect the intellectual property and creative integrity of the original static cover. Our tool utilizes an intermediate prompt generation designed by us and saves you insurmountable amounts of time andwhich does not employ generative training models, so your artwork and the artists are always protected.
No more spending tons of money and time on GenAI subscriptions trying out thousands of prompts looking for some type of desired results. We do it for you!
The Musixmatch Animated artwork utilizes intermediate prompt generation, built on three key pillars: vision analysis, prompt automation, and Runway Gen-4 integration, all of which produce the best possible output.
Our system analyzes the album cover using computer vision to identify key visual elements such as color palettes, textures, and focal points. In some cases, we even integrate metadata, such as musical genre, ensuring the animation feels true to the music itself.
Musixmatch Pro AI automatically generates intermediate prompts. A structured animation instructions that define how each part of the Artwork should move. Backgrounds can pulse gently, lighting can shift, or textures can gain depth. This saves creators hours of testing while remaining true to the original album cover.
We then leverage Runway as the rendering engine, which is optimized for smooth, loopable video generation. Combined with our proprietary intermediate prompts, it produces consistent, platform-ready motion covers without distortion or jitter.
The result is a dynamic motion cover that feels like a natural extension of the Artwork. It's your cover, your brand, your story, brought to life in a way that works seamlessly as Apple Music Album Motion and Tidal.
Creating an album motion cover on Musixmatch Pro is easy - really, it only takes three steps, and then you've got custom, animated cover artwork. Artists have already created Animated Artwork for Apple Music and Tidal, you can check out some of our favorite examples. All you need to do is access your profile in Musixmatch Pro, select your song, customize it, and then you'll have a professional animated artwork video for your music.
Get started today with Musixmatch Pro's Animated Artwork. Join now and get your first one free!
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