Animation is a different kind of generation. Instead of motion graphics built from shapes and text, the AI draws the whole scene in the illustration style you pick and animates it. It is great for stories and explainers.
At a glance
Details
Credits
15 per generation, the same for every style
Speed
About 2 to 4 minutes
Length
Up to 10 seconds
Background
Transparent works: you get an alpha MOV
What you get
Controls ready. The scene arrives with its controls open: main colours, the texts on screen, overall speed, optional elements, Sound and Background. See Customization controls.
Transparency. Set Background to Transparent to get an alpha MOV that sits over your footage. See Background & transparency.
Images work: attach up to 5 and place them as is or have them redrawn in the chosen style. See Writing prompts.
Tweak keeps the style. Describe a change in words and the AI edits the scene in the same style. See Editing a generation.
Styles
On the Animation tier, the dropdown at the top left of the composer shows illustration styles instead of presets. There are sixteen styles, plus Auto:
Auto: picks the style and the closest reference scenes for your prompt, 3D looks included (3D engraving, Clay 3D, Toon 3D, Low-poly 3D) when the prompt asks for 3D, clay or a scene in depth.
Ink: hand-inked drawing on warm paper, with hatching. Best for explainers, cut-aways, nature.
Blueprint: white technical lines on blueprint blue, with dimensions and callouts. Best for how things work, engineering, architecture.
Flat: clean flat vector, bold colours, crisp type. Best for illustrated promos, icons, infographics, lower thirds and logo stings.
UI: your product's interface as the hero: real app and web screens with readable text, soft shadows, and a cursor or finger that clicks through them, in a light or dark theme. Best for app walkthroughs, SaaS feature demos, onboarding flows.
Collage: cut paper, torn edges, halftone, stop-motion poses with a smooth camera. Best for promos, news and maps, playful subjects.
Painterly: brush strokes, a gouache or oil look. Best for atmosphere, nature, cities, emotional scenes.
Watercolor: transparent watercolour on white paper: soft washes that bleed and dry with darker edges, a loose pencil sketch showing through, the paper left white for the lights. Best for flowers and nature, illustrated travel maps, gentle storybook scenes.
Chalk: chalk on a blackboard: hand-drawn lines with board grain and dust, handwriting, shading with coloured chalk. Best for lessons and worked examples, science diagrams, business plans sketched at the board.
Pixel art: retro 16-bit game graphics: big square pixels, a small palette, dithering, sprites that move in stepped frames and a pixel font. Best for game scenes, retro title screens and channel intros, score and level-up moments.
Neon: glowing neon tubes on a dark wall: a white-hot core, a coloured rim and a soft glow, light that runs along the tubes, signs that strike on with a flicker. Best for sign intros and titles for a bar, show or channel, logos at night, charts and routes drawn in light.
Typography: pure kinetic typography with no pictures or icons: big type on a plain page, words rising on the beat, a key word struck in an accent colour, numbers that roll and count. Best for manifestos and brand statements, quotes, stats reveals, slogans.
3D engraving: a real 3D object drawn with engraving hatching on paper, like an illustration from an old book, with a slowly moving camera. Best for objects, mechanisms, products and hero shots.
Clay 3D: a small world of soft modelling clay with smooth motion: waxy matte surfaces, gentle light, soft shadows. Best for friendly characters, tabletop scenes, food and cosy products.
Toon 3D: a 3D cartoon with flat three-step shading, a bold outline and a crisp shadow. Best for mascots, playful promos and bold, readable objects.
Low-poly 3D: faceted shapes with few polygons, one clean colour per face and soft light. Best for small worlds, landscapes, maps and tech illustrations.
Freestyle: the look you name in your prompt when it is none of the styles above, for example a risograph print, a Bauhaus poster, a comic book page or a tape from an old camcorder. 40+ ready looks, 3D included, are picked up by keywords in your prompt, and you can still describe a look of your own.
The card shows which style was used next to the tier, for example "Animation · Blueprint (auto)".
Examples
A few Animation scenes from the home page, each in its own style: