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Explainer video style · Neon synthwave
Synthwave retro explainer videos
80s vector CRT: glowing grids, magenta and cyan. Brief it in one sentence and get a narrated, animated explainer film in the Neon synthwave 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.
Deep indigo night, glowing magenta and cyan vector lines, a wireframe grid running to a striped sun, and a driving analog-synth score. Neon synthwave is 1980s retro-futurism, made for topics about speed, tech and the future, or anything that should feel like a trailer.
Best for
- Tech and future-facing topics
- Launch trailers
- Music and culture
Try a brief like
- “How a CPU runs a billion steps a second”
- “What happens inside a fibre-optic cable”
- “Why the 80s sounded like that”
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 Neon synthwave.
- Look
- 1980s synthwave retro-futurism: deep indigo night, glowing neon magenta and cyan vector lines, perspective wireframe grid ground running to a striped setting sun, bloom and chromatic glow, subtle CRT scanlines, chrome lettering. Characters are neon-outline silhouettes.
- Motion
- Endless forward motion over the grid, neon lines draw on with a glow flare, elements flicker on like tubes, VHS-style RGB split on transitions, slow camera fly-throughs.
- Music
- Synthwave: analog arpeggiated bass, gated reverb drums, lush poly-synth pads, a soaring lead — driving and nostalgic.
- Type
- Chrome or neon-tube script and wide geometric caps, with glow.
22 more styles. Or let the director choose.
Editorial collage
Risograph print
16-bit pixel art
Watercolor editorial
Swiss modernist
Archival documentary
Claymation look
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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