Create an Animated Intro for Your Brand in 15 Minutes

Open a new Manus task. Upload your logo or wordmark, then paste this prompt:

I want to create a branded intro bumper, transition bumper, and outro bumper video based on these logos. Interview me and ask me 3-5 multiple choice questions about the style and vibe I want before you start. Use the video generator skill.

The interview method helps you avoid writing a detailed creative brief upfront. Manus will ask targeted questions about vibe, animation style, color direction, and whether you want background music.

• Ask for all three bumpers—intro, transition, and outro—in the first prompt so Manus can style them as a matched set.
• Upload any brand assets you have, such as logos, wordmarks, or brand guidelines. Manus can use them directly or draw inspiration from them.

Pro tip: Don’t try to write out a detailed creative brief yourself. The interview approach gets you better results because Manus asks the right questions, and you just pick from options.

After the interview, Manus will present concept options for your bumpers. Before you commit to one, ask Manus to visualize them:

Can you visualize these so I can pick the one I like best?

Manus will generate preview images for each concept in the canvas on the right side of the screen. You can click items in the canvas to reference them in the chat, or command-click to select a specific element you want to call out.

Pick the concept that feels right and tell Manus to go with it. If none of the options work, describe what feels off and ask for new options.

Manus will generate your bumpers. Under the hood, it uses Nana Banana to create keyframes—the start and end frames of each clip—and Google VO3 to animate between them. It can also handle music mixing if you opted for background music.

When Manus asks about default mode or quality mode, choose default. Quality mode uses roughly 8x the tokens, and the source did not find a meaningful difference in the output.

• This step takes 15–20 minutes, so it is a walk-away-and-come-back task you can let run in the background.
• Manus keeps the audio, video, and image tracks separate, which means you can reuse assets or swap things out later instead of being stuck with one burned-in video file.
• If Manus gets stuck trying to download royalty-free music, tell it to skip the music. You can add your own track later in your video editor.

Pro tip: Manus sometimes has trouble with logos that are not widely known. If your logo is not rendering correctly, try uploading a cleaner version or telling Manus to use your brand name as text with your brand colors.

When the videos are ready, play them back in the canvas. If a clip does not look right, you do not need to start over. Tell Manus what to fix:

The intro looks great but the transition is too slow. Can you regenerate just the transition clip with faster movement?

Once you are happy with the clips, download them and drop them into your video editor as your intro, transition, and outro.