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Documentary-style lectures from stock footage, AI stills and animated frames.

The Cinematic family produces documentary, character-story and stickman films. Stills are the source of truth: every AI clip animates a frame you have already seen, characters and places stay consistent through reference sheets, and paid media runs inside a per-video budget.

Stock + AICharacter consistencyBudget-cappedAny subject
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The detail that makes it work.

Many kinds of film

Documentary, character story, social short, map journey and document deep-dive — each with its own style bible and rhythm, in Moving Images, Mixed Motion or Full Animation.

Stills first, then motion

Image-to-video animates an approved still, so consistency never breaks between shots.

STEM interleave

On math-heavy subjects the director can drop in animated math beats and split-screen motion scenes.

Maps, documents, chats and depth

Globe flights for where things happened, close reading of a source document, a dialogue restaged as a chat thread, and hero stills the camera moves through in depth.

Your own cast

Cast characters you designed in Character Studio — in seven looks from photoreal to claymation — and they stay the same in every shot.

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Pairs well with these.

Whiteboard Sketch lecturesHand-drawn boards that sketch themselves part by part, each part drawn on the sentence that names it — in fifteen drawing styles.Paper Cutout lecturesVox-style collage boards — hand-cut paper, torn edges, tape and bold cut-out headlines — with a camera that moves on the narration.K–5 character videosSing-alongs, letter songs, shapes and compare lessons for Kindergarten to Grade 5, with animated cast members and built-in think time.MotionCraft bespoke animationA director plans a design system for the whole lecture; each scene is then written as its own animation and rendered in isolation.MathMotion lecturesA Manim-only format for STEM subjects: fluid typeset math, plotted functions and geometry that moves as the narration explains it.Promos, how-tos & recipesSix formats for marketing promos, how-to guides, recipes, coaching and listicles — kinetic type, glass cards, cinematic imagery and speech-synced motion.Mixed-media explainersWhiteboard sketches, paper cutouts, motion graphics and animated math in a single film, split evenly across the lesson.Presentation lecturesPitch decks, business overviews and product launches built from a template catalogue that self-heals its own props.Accessible learning profilesFour accessibility profiles that slow narration, extend pauses and simplify motion — applied per scene, not as an afterthought.Subject lanesDedicated scene libraries and pedagogy per subject: molecule engines for chemistry, orbits for astronomy, schematics for electronics, 3D for biology.Sports BreakdownRules, technique, analysis or the latest news of any sport or game — drawn on a field at its real proportions, with sources on screen.Landscape or vertical, any lecturePick Landscape or Vertical before you generate, and every picture, animation and caption of any lecture type is made for that frame.

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