FORMATS

Premium motion explainers for non-technical topics.

The General Video family covers everything that is not code or math. A director picks scenes from an eleven-slot menu, writes beats and image queries, and a cinematographer fills them with reranked stock or AI imagery and synced Lottie motion — with real footage clips where the story calls for them.

6 formats7 themesLottie motionStock clips

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What it does

The detail that makes it work.

Six formats

Promo, how-to, recipe, coaching, lifestyle and listicle — each curated per specialization.

Seven themes

Every component paints its own themed canvas, so a recipe and a product promo never look alike.

Real footage where it counts

Stock-first clip scenes, with optional AI video under a small per-video budget.

Pairs well with these.

Cinematic documentariesA narrative director plans the film; stock clips, AI images with Ken Burns motion and short AI video clips bring it to life — for any subject.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.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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