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Explainer video style · Risograph print
Risograph style explainer videos
True spot-ink print: halftone dots, misregistration, drawn in code. Brief it in one sentence and get a narrated, animated explainer film in the Risograph print 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.
Two or three fluorescent spot inks on warm cream paper, screened into halftone dots and printed slightly off register. Risograph is drawn in code, so every shape stays crisp while the print texture stays honest. It is bright, friendly and graphic, and it works for science as well as it does for maps.
Best for
- Science and geography lessons
- Maps and simple diagrams
- Friendly product explainers
Try a brief like
- “How does a rainbow form?”
- “The Curonian Spit, in Lithuanian”
- “Why the sky is blue”
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 Risograph print.
- Look
- Risograph print drawn in code with the riso engine: two or three spot inks (fluorescent pink, blue, yellow) screened into halftone dots on warm cream paper, overprinted darks, slight misregistration, starved solids, bold mid-century shapes with hand-cut contours and lots of empty paper.
- Motion
- Calm, deliberate print motion: shapes move inside the plates while the screen and paper stay pinned; tone ramps become changing dot size; reveals by growing clips; rhythmic cuts on the beat; restraint, with empty cream frames earning the dense ones.
- Music
- Lo-fi retro groove: vinyl crackle, jazzy keys, laid-back drums.
- Type
- Lettering printed on a plate: connected italic or chunky retro display drawn with fillText into an ink plate, offset by that plate's registration.
Films made in Risograph print.
How does a rainbow form?
A 33-second science explainer in a Risograph print style. Dot the raindrop shows how white sunlight splits into colours inside a raindrop, and why you only see a rainbow with the sun behind you.
Kuršių nerija
A 69-second explainer in Lithuanian about the Curonian Spit, the 98-kilometre strip of sand between the Baltic Sea and the Curonian Lagoon: the legend of the giantess Neringa, the dunes that buried whole villages, and the forest people planted to hold them.
22 more styles. Or let the director choose.
Editorial collage
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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