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DESIGN

Design a character once. Cast it in every film.

In Assets → Characters, give a character a name and a description and pick its family: stickman, paper cutout, whiteboard sketch or cinematic, with seven cinematic looks from photoreal and painterly to anime, claymation and 3D animation. CourseSmith draws a full reference sheet. Change one thing with a sentence, redraw it, or redraw it in another style — and cast it in your lectures and shorts so it looks the same in every scene.

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What it does

The detail that makes it work.

A reference sheet per character

The sheet locks the face, clothes and proportions, so every scene is drawn from the same character.

“Want to change something?”

Ask for one change — a red scarf, glasses, shorter hair — and only that changes on the sheet.

Cast up to four

Pick saved characters for a Stickman, Cinematic, Whiteboard, Paper Cutout or Mixed Media video and they play the parts.

A drawn presenter for any lecture

Put one of your characters in the corner or at the side of any lecture; it changes pose with each scene — explaining, pointing, thinking, celebrating.

Your character, beside the real thing

In a programming or physics lesson, your character can sit beside the real code, equation or chart it is explaining.

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Watch the short tutorials.

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Add any scene, mid-lectureBetween any two beats, insert an image, a self-drawing sketch, a paper-cutout collage, a stickman panel, an X-Ray scene, a cinematic clip, animated math, or bespoke motion graphics.Storyboard editorDesign every scene visually — component, background, animation, and narration, side by side.Component libraryA rich library of accurate scene templates — Socratic, Tutorial, and PowerPoint families.AI video agentDescribe a scene in chat and the agent builds it — layout-aware and catalog-aware.Your workspaceThe Projects page keeps courses, shorts, storyboards in progress, Studio edits, videos, product videos, Cutaway captures and sources apart — and links every source to what was made from it.Scene styleColours, fonts and text size for a single scene or the whole deck, with no per-template code.Styles for every lecture typeEvery lecture type’s looks and “scenes to include”, each shown as a real frame — searchable, recommended per lesson, remembered per type.Stock + AI imageryPexels and Unsplash photos and clips, AI images, and short AI video — with a vision model picking the best match.

Build a course with character studio.

It’s one part of a tool that carries your source all the way to a polished, finished video.

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