# Backdrops: agent skills for animated video backgrounds behind text and UI

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What sits behind the words and the UI: gradients, grids and dots, aurora, noise, spotlights and blurred product shots. 9 skills for Claude Code, Codex and Grok, by type: workflows take a brief to a finished video, effects and styles change how it looks, prompts and guides teach the agent the craft, models run the generation.

## Skills (9)

### Effects (9)

- [Slow Mesh Gradient](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/slow-mesh-gradient.md) — HeyGen: Soft brand-colored fields blend and drift slowly behind titles and UI.
- [Aurora Behind the Title](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/aurora-behind-title.md) — Aceternity UI: Blurred light streaks drift sideways across a dark frame behind a centered title.
- [Faint Grid or Dot Field](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/faint-grid-field.md) — Magic UI: A very faint line grid or dot field gives structure behind UI and code, with a soft radial fade.
- [Spotlight From Above](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/spotlight-from-above.md) — Aceternity UI: Soft light cones fall from the top of a dark frame onto the product or title.
- [Film Grain Over Gradient](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/film-grain-over-gradient.md) — HeyGen: A fine animated grain sits over the gradient so it feels printed, removes banding and looks less digital.
- [Blurred Product Behind Text](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/blurred-product-behind.md) — Kapish Dima · remocn: The product UI itself, heavily blurred and dimmed, becomes the backdrop for a title or quote.
- [Perspective Grid Tunnel](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/perspective-grid-tunnel.md) — Magic UI: A card or title floats in a perspective tunnel or floor grid while light streaks race along the lines.
- [Brand-Color Silk Waves](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/brand-silk-waves.md) — David Haz: Smooth silk-like folds or wave bands in brand colors flow slowly behind the content.
- [Quiet Particle Field](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/quiet-particle-field.md) — tsParticles (Matteo Bruni): Out-of-focus dots drift slowly in depth behind the content, adding life without motion noise.