# Rust Ghost

- **Event:** [Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon)
- **When:** Oct 26, 12:00 PM – Nov 4, 9:00 PM (EST)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Ahmed Oubadi](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/rust_ghost)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/ahmedoubadi/motion-engine/
- **Demo video:** https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c7tVkuWcqw59nR_5vA233mGyzGkNhmub/view?usp=sharing
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/3777

Motion Engine is an open-source, AI-native video rendering engine I built in Rust.

I started this project because I believe video creation is entering the agentic era, but the underlying rendering infrastructure hasn't caught up. Traditional workflows often depend on browser-based rendering, screen recording, and fragile pipelines that weren't designed for autonomous AI agents.

I wanted to build something fundamentally different.

Motion Engine doesn't create videos by recording a screen or capturing browser output. It renders frames directly through its own Rust-based rendering engine. This gives developers precise control over every frame, deterministic output, and a rendering workflow designed for speed and reliability.

The project combines a custom Rust rendering core, animation and typography systems, an audio timeline, a TypeScript SDK, a sandboxed compiler, durable rendering jobs, FFmpeg integration, and an MCP gateway that exposes structured tools to AI agents.

An AI agent can create a video project, compile it, inspect the output, make targeted edits, render it, and verify the final result through a structured workflow.

My goal is to make video creation programmable, predictable, and accessible to autonomous agents, without relying on traditional screen-capture workflows.

I'm making Motion Engine open source so developers can experiment with it, build on top of it, and help shape the future of agentic video creation.

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