Explainer video style · Hand-painted anime

Hand-painted anime style explainer videos

Sunny watercolour backdrops, wind in the grass, simple characters. Brief it in one sentence and get a narrated, animated explainer film in the Hand-painted anime style, scored and voiced, in about 15 minutes.

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What it looks like, and when to use it.

Soft watercolour washes, big summer clouds, grass moving in waves of wind and sunny rooms with lace curtains, with simple two-tone characters painted into the scene. Hand-painted anime is drawn in code, from the washes to the wind. It is gentle, nostalgic and warm, for nature, seasons and small stories where the feeling matters.

Best for

Nature, weather and seasons
Children’s stories
Gentle, nostalgic stories

Try a brief like

“How the wind carries dandelion seeds”
“Why summer days feel longer”
“How a forest grows back after a fire”

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 Hand-painted anime.

Look: Drawn in code, no generated images: the hand-painted background art of classic Japanese animated films. Transparent watercolour washes on paper, layered, with soft pigment pooling at the edges. Bright summer skies with big white cumulus clouds, green hills, swaying grass and large trees, warm plaster rooms with wooden floors and lace curtains, dappled light through leaves. Characters are simple two-tone cel paint (a base colour and one crescent of shadow) with soft warm-brown lines, painted to sit inside the world.
Motion: Gentle and alive, with wind as the constant motion: gusts sweep across grass in visible waves, curtains billow, hair and ribbons drift, trees sway, clouds float, dappled light flickers on walls, small flowers nod. Characters move simply and calmly. Scene change: wet paper blooming, the new scene's washes spreading in.
Music: Warm orchestra and piano: a lilting waltz or folk melody with accordion or strings, nostalgic and hopeful.
Type: A soft rounded serif or a brush-lettered title in warm brown on cream paper, few words, like a storybook title card.