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Explainer video style · Editorial collage
Collage animation explainer videos
Hand-drawn paper cut-outs, torn edges, vintage ephemera. Brief it in one sentence and get a narrated, animated explainer film in the Editorial collage style, scored and voiced, in about 15 minutes.
Or let the director choose a style for your topic.
What it looks like, and when to use it.
Torn paper, kraft card, old maps and stamps, cut out and placed by hand. Editorial collage turns a dry subject into something that feels like a magazine feature: warm, a little wry, and clearly made by someone. It is the style the director reaches for when an abstract idea needs a concrete story.
Best for
- Economics, history and current affairs
- Talks and keynotes
- Brand stories with a human feel
Try a brief like
- “Why can’t we just print more money?”
- “How the printing press changed Europe”
- “What a central bank actually does”
The art direction the director follows.
Every style is a full art direction, not a filter: its own palette, type, motion and music. This is the brief the director works from for Editorial collage.
- Look
- Editorial hand-made mixed-media paper collage: torn and scissor-cut paper pieces with visible fibrous edges, kraft paper, vintage book pages, old maps, stamps and ephemera, gouache and ink linework, subtle halftone and paper grain, slightly imperfect registration. Warm and witty, like a magazine feature illustration or an adult animated short.
- Motion
- Stop-motion feel: animate on 2s/3s (stepped at 8–12fps for wobble/boil), pieces slide, flip and pop in with overshoot like paper being placed by hand, gentle parallax between paper layers, drop shadows under cut-outs, occasional paper-tear and fold transitions.
- Music
- Warm acoustic underscore: felt piano, pizzicato and bowed strings, nylon guitar, light hand percussion, curious and wry.
- Type
- Hand-lettered or typewriter/serif mix; words appear as cut-out ransom-note letters or stamped labels.
Films made in Editorial collage.
Why can’t we just print more money?
A 56-second economics explainer in an editorial collage style. From a 200-billion-mark loaf of bread in 1923 Berlin to a town with a hundred loaves, it shows why printing money does not make anyone richer.
Tell Me More
A 49-second leadership training film in an editorial collage style. It shows why answering every question fast ends the conversation, and how asking first brings the bad news early, while it is still small.
22 more styles. Or let the director choose.
Risograph print
16-bit pixel art
Watercolor editorial
Swiss modernist
Archival documentary
Claymation look
Neon synthwave
Ukiyo-e woodblock
Kinetic typography
Felt & yarn craft
Pop comic book
Blueprint / technical
Oil impasto
Isometric low-poly
Ink noir + one colour
Layered papercut
Mid-century cartoon
Data-journalism dark
Whiteboard doodle
Nature documentary
Bold flat vector
Chalkboard lesson
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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