Perspective Grid Tunnel — effect skill for backdrops
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A card or title floats in a perspective tunnel or floor grid while light streaks race along the lines.
- Type: Effect · Backdrops
- Slug:
perspective-grid-tunnel - Status: live
- Publisher: Magic UI (community)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/magicuidesign/magicui/blob/main/apps/www/registry/magicui/warp-background.tsx
- Works in: Claude Code, Claude.ai, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Gemini CLI, Any MCP client, varg Studio
- Requires: HyperFrames (npx hyperframes), Remotion, CapCut (by hand)
- Cost: Free — the take renders locally; generated footage, if any, bills by the model
What it does
Built on Warp Background by magic-ui, MIT. The write-up and recipes below are varg's.
Grid walls/floor converging to a vanishing point; thin colored streaks travel toward the camera; content centered.
When: Energy and speed beats: launches, "faster" claims, transitions between sections.
Watch out: Do not use it behind dense UI; the converging lines pull focus away from small text.
Timing: Streaks 0.8–1.5 s each, staggered; floor scroll loop 2–4 s.
Also called: warp background, retro grid, grid tunnel
In HyperFrames
npx hyperframes add gallery-tunnel
Or a CSS floor grid with rotateX(70deg) and a timeline-driven background-position-y.
In Remotion
<div style={{transform:'perspective(600px) rotateX(70deg)', backgroundImage:'linear-gradient(#f0f3 1px,transparent 1px),linear-gradient(90deg,#f0f3 1px,transparent 1px)', backgroundSize:'60px 60px', backgroundPositionY:`${frame*4}px`}}/>
In CapCut
Media → Library: search "retro grid"/"tunnel" loops; put the product card on top with a glow.
Ready-made components
- Warp Background (magic-ui): npx shadcn@latest add @magicui/warp-background
- Retro Grid (magic-ui): npx shadcn@latest add @magicui/retro-grid
- Gallery Tunnel (hyperframes): npx hyperframes add gallery-tunnel
Where this comes from
Use when
- Energy and speed beats: launches, "faster" claims, transitions between sections.
Not for
- Do not use it behind dense UI; the converging lines pull focus away from small text.
Install
- Claude Code:
claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg - Codex:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-video-edit-library -a codex -y - Cursor:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-video-edit-library -a cursor -y
Example output
https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/23d0573a586e/lib-magic-ui-warp-background.mp4 — Preview of the Warp Background component that builds this take (credit: Captured from the library’s own demo page (Magic UI), https://magicui.design/docs/components/warp-background)
More backdrops skills
- Slow Mesh Gradient: Soft brand-colored fields blend and drift slowly behind titles and UI.
- Aurora Behind the Title: Blurred light streaks drift sideways across a dark frame behind a centered title.
- Faint Grid or Dot Field: A very faint line grid or dot field gives structure behind UI and code, with a soft radial fade.
- Spotlight From Above: Soft light cones fall from the top of a dark frame onto the product or title.
- Film Grain Over Gradient: A fine animated grain sits over the gradient so it feels printed, removes banding and looks less digital.
- Blurred Product Behind Text: The product UI itself, heavily blurred and dimmed, becomes the backdrop for a title or quote.
Run the generation on varg
varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.
- Claude Code:
claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg(skill + hosted MCP) - Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y - Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md - Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect
https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp - API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt