Regular Scene
A standard component scene. Add it blank, or describe it and let AI write the narration and visuals — and pick a storytelling device when the words call for one.
See the devicesScene types
A lecture is not one kind of visual. Use all of them.
Between any two beats of any lecture you can drop in a different kind of scene — and AI writes it to fit the lecture around it. Here is every scene type, with a real example of each.
Paste Text / Images
Already have the material? Paste your text and drop in your screenshots or diagrams — AI turns them into a scene that keeps your wording and shows your images.
Pasted a lot? It can suggest breaking it into several scenes before you commit.
Image Scene
Built around a picture — upload your own or describe one for AI to generate; AI writes the scene around it.
Chalkboard Sketch
A hand-drawn board that draws itself, stroke by stroke, while the narrator speaks. Pick a style (whiteboard, chalkboard, blueprint…); AI writes the scene from your notes — or from the surrounding lecture on its own.
Takes ~20–30 seconds to draw — runs in the background.
See the stylesPaper Cutout
A Vox-style paper collage — hand-cut cardboard elements with torn edges, tape and a bold cut-out headline, slapped down while the narrator speaks. Pick a craft style; AI writes the scene from your notes — or from the surrounding lecture on its own.
Takes ~15–25 seconds to build — runs in the background.
See the stylesStickman
A full comic panel — a setting, props and your saved stick-figure cast acting the idea out. Keep it as a moving image, or animate it (Pro).
Uses the characters you saved in Assets, so they look the same in every scene.
X-Ray Scene
Premium · ProThe X-Ray Reels method on one scene of this lecture: the real thing the words are about, found in reference photos and drawn in code on a cinematic plate — cut open, labelled, changing on the word that changes it — every render reviewed.
Takes 10–25 minutes (three reviewed renders) — runs in the background; keep working. The frontier model is on Studio.
PictureMotion Scene
Premium · ProThe PictureMotion Reels method on one scene: a realistic picture of the real thing, drawn from reference photos, with its later states as edits of the same picture — and the explanation animated on it: parts lit and labelled, flows, counters, on their words.
Takes 10–25 minutes (pictures + three reviewed renders) — runs in the background; keep working.
Cinematic Video Scene
Real-world footage with a mood you pick — AI video or stock film resolved automatically. Best for stories, history, business and real-world topics.
You can also add your own externally-generated videos later in the video editor.
MathMotion
A hand-animated math/diagram explainer (MathMotion). Describe what it should teach; the AI director choreographs and renders it. Optionally over real footage of the subject.
Renders in the background (1–3 min) — you can keep working or leave the page.
See the examplesMotionCraft Scene
Bespoke motion graphics authored by AI. Describe the animation — or attach an image and AI will build the scene around it. Optionally over real footage of the subject.
Renders in the background (1–3 min) — you can keep working or leave the page.
See the examples
Add from Captures
Drop in one of your Cutaway screen recordings, or an element-aware guide whose steps are stitched in as narrated scenes — added to this phase.
Reuse a Scene
Pull a finished scene from any other lesson — browse by course, topic and lesson. The rendered animation and imagery come with it, so nothing is generated again.
Your whole course library, reusable.
In the storyboard
One grid, between any two scenes.
Press + between two scenes — or Replace on a scene — and the same thirteen cards open. Pick one, describe it or leave it to the lecture around it, and keep working while it renders.
X-Ray and PictureMotion scenes are premium scenes on the Pro plan; their frontier-model option is on Studio. Every scene uses minutes of your plan — see pricing.
Storytelling devices
Let AI pick the device the words call for.
A Regular scene can become one of these when its narration is about a place, a date, a source, a conversation or a question — same words, a better way to show them. Choose one yourself, or leave it on Auto.
- Animated mapWhere it happened — a globe that flies between places, routes drawing on.
- TimelineWhen it happened — dates that build along a line.
- Document zoomWhat a source says — the camera pushes in and marks the exact passage.
- Chat threadA conversation, restaged as messages on a phone or in a team chat.
- Headline montageWhat the press said — headlines landing one after another.
- News deskA development framed as breaking news.
- Research trailBrowser tabs opening one by one, the way the answer was found.
- Annotated photoA picture with marker circles and arrows on the part that matters.
- Knowledge checkA question with real think-time before the answer.
Style for this scene
One scene, one treatment — picked from its real picture.
When you add or replace a scene, its type comes with a Style section: the moves an animated scene can make, the drawing styles of a sketch, the devices of a regular scene. Pick one, or none and the scene is made as usual. The same styles, and the looks for a whole video, sit in the script page’s Preview before you generate — see Styles for every lecture type.
Chain Reveal
The causes and effects the scene states as standing tiles; each tips into the next on its words.
Shape Shift
One shape flows from stage to stage on the words that name each, with no cuts, each stage labelled.
Isometric cutaway
A system with a real layout built as a tidy isometric model, then opened to show the inside at work.
Info cards
Two to four cards deal in one by one, each holding one short fact the scene states; the card being spoken lights up.
Kinetic type
The scene’s own words land as big type, word by word, with one word emphasised.
Spotlight
The frame dims and a soft pool of light singles out the one part the narration names.
Exploded-view poster
An illustrated drawing of the real product or machine pulled apart, each part labelled as it is named.
Photo collage
Real photos of the things the scene names, pinned to a board as they are said.
Code editor frame
One animation framed inside a code editor, with the lesson’s chapters beside it.
Image + animation split
A picture of the real thing on one half, the animation explaining it on the other.
Footage behind
Real footage of the subject plays dimmed behind the animation.
Bold transitions
A colour wipe or a zoom-through between scenes instead of plain cuts.
Chalkboard Sketch
Fifteen ways to draw a lecture.
Every scene is drawn stroke by stroke while the narrator speaks. Pick one style and it carries across the whole lecture — or drop a single drawn scene into a standard one.
Whiteboard
Clean dry-erase board, black marker linework with red and blue accents — the classic explainer look.
Chalkboard B&W
White chalk on a dark slate board — dusty, hand-drawn, lecture-hall feel.
Chalkboard Color
Dark green board with vivid colored chalk — yellow, pink, cyan strokes that glow off the slate.
Modern Minimal
Thin elegant lines, lots of white space, a single indigo accent — sleek SaaS-demo aesthetic.
Technical Blueprint
Navy blueprint background with precise white schematic linework and one orange accent.
Editorial
Magazine-style illustration: bold ink outlines with rich flat color fills on warm paper.
Playful
A riot of marker color on warm cream — rounded friendly lines, confetti and storybook energy.
Sharpie
Raw paper attacked with a full sharpie set — bold, rough, saturated and high-energy.
Sketchnote
Conference graphic-recording board — every idea cluster colour-coded across its lettering, banner and arrows.
Oil Pastel
Edge-to-edge oil-pastel painting — waxy layered colour, burnt orange against deep teal, broken crayon outlines.
Vector Infographic
Flat vector cards on warm grey — each card outlined in its own colour, with typeset labels and one crimson flag.
Crayon
Wax crayon on cream paper — bold black outlines, hot hatched fills that let the paper tooth show through, and a shouted word in a starburst.
Coral Line
Calm magazine-column ink drawing on warm paper — grey halftone, lots of empty space, and one coral accent on the thing that matters.
Comic Rough
Fast black ink like a storyboard artist at work — open, broken strokes, solid black shadows and no colour at all.
Marker Infographic
A hand-drawn infographic — black marker, two or three flat colours, boxed facts and numbered callouts joined by arrows along one clear path.
Paper Cutout
Seven craft styles, hand-cut.
Torn edges, tape, halftone shading and bold cut-out headlines — with the camera pushing and panning across the collage in time with the narration.
Editorial Collage
Torn-edge paper cutouts on bold flat color with halftone shading — the signature Vox look.
Cardboard Craft
Layered corrugated cardboard with scissor edges and real shadows — stop-motion diorama feel.
Newspaper
Clippings from aged newsprint layered like a scrapbook, black-and-cream with one red accent.
Construction Paper
Chunky scissor-cut shapes in saturated primary colors — playful classroom-craft energy.
Retro Archival
Sepia photo cutouts, manila folders and grease-pencil circles — mid-century dossier look.
Felt & Fabric
Stitched felt and fabric shapes on linen — soft, cozy, handmade craft-table warmth.
Xerox Zine
High-contrast photocopy grain with staples, tape and one electric neon accent — DIY punk zine.
MathMotion & MotionCraft
Animation authored for the idea.
Real scenes lifted from rendered lectures — no templates. MathMotion choreographs quantitative explanations; MotionCraft writes a fresh composition per scene.
The rings, a blizzard of ice — Astronomy
Thousands of ice particles resolve into the ring plane, then the camera drops into the gap to show how thin the disc really is.
The cliff of totality — Astronomy
The Moon slides across the Sun while a brightness curve drops off a cliff at the last one percent — why 99% is not an eclipse.
Inside the Roche limit — Astronomy
A moon drifts inside the Roche limit and tidal forces pull it apart into a ring, the limit drawn as the line it must not cross.
Why the rings cannot be solid — Astronomy
Inner particles lap the outer ones: differential rotation animated with live orbital speeds, so a solid disc would tear itself apart.
Storms ten thousand times ours — Astronomy
Lightning in Saturn's atmosphere scaled against a terrestrial bolt, the energy readout counting up as the comparison lands.
Energy of an ice-rock avalanche — Physics
Potential energy becomes kinetic on the slope: the bar chart and the falling mass move together, the numbers counted not typed.
Kepler's Second Law — Astronomy
The equal-areas law drawn live: a planet sweeps its orbital wedge while the swept-area formula builds beneath.
Sliding window dry run — LeetCode
From Sliding Window Maximum: the first window materializes over the array and the deque logic plays out step by step.
How one cell becomes two — Biology
Petrol and saffron: the chromosomes coil into X shapes, line up on the equator, spindle fibres pull them apart and the membrane pinches one cell into two.
How a rocket reaches orbit — Physics
Cobalt and coral: the rocket lifts off, tips into the gravity turn, drops its first stage and the second stage races to 7.8 km/s over the curve of the Earth.
When a comet strikes a planet — Astronomy
Void and gold: a comet streaks in at 50 km/s, strikes in a flash, shock waves sweep the planet and the ejecta settles into a debris ring.
Photon packets — Physics
From The Photoelectric Effect: light rendered as discrete glowing quanta streaming past E = hf.
Learn CourseSmith
Watch the short tutorial.
Every one of these is one click inside the storyboard.
Bring a repo, a document, a recording, or a topic — then build the lecture out of whichever scenes teach it best.