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Explainer video styles
23 explainer video styles. Or let the director choose.
Every style ships with its own palette, type, motion and music rules: a full art direction, not a filter. Pick one for your film, or choose Auto and the director picks the look that suits the topic.
Editorial collage
Hand-drawn paper cut-outs, torn edges, vintage ephemera
Risograph print
True spot-ink print: halftone dots, misregistration, drawn in code
16-bit pixel art
Retro game sprites, dithering, chunky pixels
Watercolor editorial
Soft washes, ink lines, travel-sketchbook warmth
Swiss modernist
Bauhaus geometry, strict grid, big type
Archival documentary
Vintage photos, sepia scrapbook, handwritten notes
Claymation look
Squishy plasticine characters with fingerprints
Neon synthwave
80s vector CRT: glowing grids, magenta and cyan
Ukiyo-e woodblock
Edo-period print: flat colour, wood grain, bold contours
Kinetic typography
Words are the visuals — bold, rhythmic, minimal
Felt & yarn craft
Stitched felt, knitted textures, handmade diorama
Pop comic book
Halftone dots, thick outlines, panel energy
Blueprint / technical
Engineering drawings, grids, precise annotations
Oil impasto
Thick expressive brushstrokes, gallery painting
Isometric low-poly
Tiny faceted 3D world on a floating tile
Ink noir + one colour
Stark black-and-white brush ink with a single spot colour
Layered papercut
Deep shadow-box paper layers with soft light
Mid-century cartoon
1950s limited animation: sparse, witty, off-register colour
Data-journalism dark
Editorial charts on charcoal, precise and calm
Whiteboard doodle
Marker sketches drawn on as the story unfolds
Nature documentary
Photoreal, shallow depth of field, natural light
Bold flat vector
Saturated shapes, cosmic scale, crisp motion graphics
Chalkboard lesson
Dusty chalk drawings on a green-black board
One sentence is enough.
Describe your topic, approve the storyboard, and get a narrated, animated film in about 15 minutes. Explainers is invite-only for now: sign in and tell us what you want to explain.
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