The real thing, not an icon
Each scene is drawn from real reference photos at the subject’s real proportions, then opened up to show how it works.
SHORTS
See inside anything in about a minute.Flagship
Name a subject — a jet engine, an eye surgery, a folding phone. CourseSmith researches it, finds real reference photos, paints the setting and draws the subject on top, cut open where the mechanism is inside. It opens with a question, explains how the thing works step by step at a pace you can follow, and closes on the one line to remember. Every change lands on the word that says it, and a reviewer checks each scene before you see it.
≈40 s or ≈70 s9:16Question hookReal referencesWord-synced
What it does
The detail that makes it work.
A question, then the answer
The hook is a question; the middle explains how it works, one step per scene; the close is the line a viewer could repeat to a friend.
Moves on the words
The whole short is voiced in one take at a teaching pace; every part changes on the exact word that names it, with word-by-word captions.
Checked before you see it
Every scene is rendered, looked at and fixed against a checklist — nothing cut off, nothing static, the subject filling the frame.
Ready to post
Export it with a cover frame and a caption with hashtags, and keep your voice, caption style and accent in a reel profile.
Frontier model on Studio
Studio can draft every scene with the frontier model for the most detailed results, at three times the minutes; regular X-Ray Reels are on Pro.
Real renders
Made with X-Ray Reels
Learn CourseSmith
Watch the short tutorial.
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