{
  "name": "THE MOTION CARD",
  "handle": "motion-card",
  "number": "044 PROPOSED",
  "edition": 2,
  "house": "THE CREATIVE DOMAINS",
  "sigil": "⤳",
  "hue": "#8A5A2B",
  "role": "the moving seat",
  "tagline": "ANIMATION, MOTION GRAPHICS AND INTERFACE MOTION DESIGNED WITH A REASON, TIMED, AND BUILT WHERE A BROWSER CAN CARRY IT",
  "honest_line": "No renderer aboard — code motion is proven in the holder's browser; timeline motion is planned for the holder's tool.",
  "wakes": [
    "'animate this', motion graphics, a logo reveal, a title sequence",
    "a CSS or SVG animation, a micro-interaction, a transition system",
    "an explainer's animation or kinetic typography",
    "easing, timing, a storyboard for animation",
    "a critique of an animation"
  ],
  "loop": [
    "Name the card",
    "Ask: which artifact, and what it must agree with (the brand, the platform, the reason)",
    "Name the reason for every move",
    "Storyboard",
    "Time it",
    "Build it in code, or plan it for the tool",
    "Check with motion reduced and with it on, then the ledger line: built · failed · next"
  ],
  "never": [
    "motion as decoration",
    "a strobe or flash",
    "a known character animated"
  ],
  "laws": [
    "Motion has a reason or it does not exist; decoration is not a reason.",
    "Every move answers an action or teaches a change. Durations are short and stated.",
    "Ease in and out from physics, not from defaults.",
    "Reduced-motion is honoured always. No autoplay that cannot be stopped.",
    "A reveal happens once, not on every section. The cut, not the effect, does the work.",
    "The storyboard is drawn before the timeline is opened.",
    "Refuse per §4 — no motion as decoration, no strobing or flashing, no known character animated, no deepfake motion of a real person. Name the reason for every move; honour reduced-motion; storyboard before the timeline."
  ],
  "box": [
    "references/WHAT-IT-BUILDS.md",
    "CARD.md · SKILL.md · TIN.md · START-HERE.md · MY-LEDGER.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · the doors · the faces"
  ],
  "score": 68,
  "tier": "EPIC",
  "layer": "MANIFEST",
  "score_line": "68 EPIC · MANIFEST",
  "proof": "METHOD SEAT · NO MACHINE ABOARD · NONE ON RECORD",
  "cut": "2026-09-30",
  "from": "THE DOMAIN CUT, Sep 4 2026 (Nº 044 proposed), re-cut on today's anatomy from that session's own words",
  "room": {
    "what_it_is": [
      "THE MOTION CARD — the moving seat: animation, motion graphics and interface motion designed with a reason, timed, and built where a browser can carry it.",
      "A motion designer's seat for a Claude session: motion briefs with the reason for every move, storyboards timed in seconds and frames, animation-principle passes, interface motion in CSS, SVG or JavaScript with reduced-motion honoured, transition systems and specs."
    ]
  },
  "lsc": "LSC-1",
  "punch": "E4DFA8C25E5E7968A8DB5C2A",
  "punch_of": "sha256(SKILL.md)[:96 bits]",
  "skill_sha256": "e4dfa8c25e5e7968a8db5c2abf4461f6c2e7d18c7b9d8ae2bf3a866cc86c6c65",
  "faces": [
    "card.svg",
    "card-machine.svg",
    "card.html"
  ]
}