Video editing styles

Flat-Vector Science flat-space

Flat-vector science-explainer illustration: deep navy-to-violet space gradients, chunky outline-free shapes with rich multi-stop gradients, flat crescent shadows and rim highlights, soft radial glows, sparkly star fields, banded ringed planets and cute big-eyed round characters.

Tech Glow Explainer tech-glow

The polished AI / tech YouTube motion-graphics look: deep navy-to-indigo space with drifting electric glows and a perspective grid, gradient-stroked icon tiles wired into node diagrams with light pulses racing along the connectors, dark cards with thin neon borders, gradient headline type and bloom on everything bright.

Papercraft Models papercraft

Printed-cardstock kit models: boxy low-poly robots, cats and charts assembled from flat printed faces with dotted fold lines, glue tabs and hairline seam gaps, Lambert-lit by a warm key light on a green self-healing cutting mat with craft tools at the edges.

Manim-Style Math math-anim

The math-explainer look of Manim, the open-source library behind 3Blue1Brown: pure black, crisp anti-aliased vector lines, a restrained palette of Manim blue, teal, yellow, red and green, LaTeX-like serif math with italic variables, axes with tick marks, curves, arrows, braces and surrounding rectangles.

Editorial Essay Collage editorial-collage

The editorial "animated essay" collage: warm grainy paper, archival halftone prints with torn white borders and soft shadows, newspaper clippings in serif type with a translucent yellow highlighter sweep, masking tape, flat colour blocks and big cut-out condensed headlines.

Product Launch Reveal product-launch

A big-tech keynote product film: one glossy hero object on a near-black stage, lit like a studio shot with soft key, rim light, a sweeping specular highlight and a floor reflection, huge tight-tracked sans headlines, gradient key numbers with a soft glow and hairline spec callouts.

Kawaii Anime kawaii

Flat 2D kawaii anime illustration: chibi characters with big glossy anime eyes and blush marks, chunky rounded shapes in strawberry-milk pink, mint, butter, lavender and sky, soft plum outlines of even weight, one cel-shadow tone and a small highlight, on polka-dot and star patterns.

Whiteboard Explainer whiteboard

Dry-erase marker on a glossy whiteboard: streaky chisel-tip strokes with pooled edges, wobbly double-traced boxes and arrows, a ghost of the last erased lesson, and a soft ceiling-light sheen.

Chalkboard Lesson chalkboard

Dusty chalk on a green slate: grainy, broken strokes that skip over the board tooth, colored chalk accents, cloudy eraser smears from past lessons, and a worn oak frame with a dusty chalk tray.

Etch A Sketch Toy etch-sketch

The classic red line-drawing toy: glossy rounded red plastic with hard specular streaks, two white knurled knobs, and a grainy silver aluminium-powder screen where everything is one thin dark line that never lifts: crisp horizontals and verticals, stair-stepped diagonals and curves, and visible travel lines joining every letter and shape.

Engineering Blueprint blueprint

A drafted cyanotype: white line-work bleeding slightly into mottled, sun-faded Prussian-blue paper, orthographic front/side views with a hatched section, dimension chains, a zoned border, title block and worn fold creases.

Napkin Sketch napkin-sketch

A back-of-the-napkin startup pitch in black Sharpie: ink feathering into soft tissue fibers, an embossed napkin border, quarter-fold creases and crumples, a coffee ring, all lying on a warm wooden cafe table.

Ballpoint Notebook ballpoint-notebook

A blue Bic doodle in the back of a college-ruled notebook: dense crosshatching for darks, pressure-varied lines with ink blobs where strokes start, bubble lettering with a hatched drop shadow and compulsive margin doodles.

Sketchbook Graphite sketchbook-pencil

A graphite study in a spiral sketchbook: faint construction circles and axes under confident darker contours, directional hatching that breaks on the paper tooth, smudged tones, kneaded-eraser highlights and a margin note.

Watercolor Wash watercolor

Transparent pigment glazed in dozens of ragged low-opacity layers on cold-press paper: dark pooled edges, wet-in-wet bleeds, cauliflower blooms, granulation and untouched white paper for the lights, over a faint pencil sketch.

Cathedral Glass stained-glass

A leaded Gothic window: hand-cut pieces of streaky, seedy antique glass held in thick dark came, painted grisaille details, and light blazing through into a dim stone interior with dusty rays.

Sumi-e Ink Wash sumi-e

Monochrome Japanese ink painting on fibrous rice paper: dilute grey washes that bleed and fade into mist, a few confident loaded-brush strokes that split into dry bristle tracks, vast negative space, a vertical calligraphy column and a vermilion seal.

Impasto Night impasto-oil

Thick oil paint in short loaded strokes that follow a swirling flow field, Post-Impressionist night-sky style; every stroke stands off the canvas with a lit ridge and a shadowed edge, colour broken within each stroke.

Gouache Travel Poster gouache-poster

Mid-century travel poster hand-painted in gouache: six flat, opaque, matte colours stacked in receding layers, dry-brush streaks where the paint thins at each edge, and a bold hand-lettered block.

Pointillist Afternoon pointillism

Neo-Impressionist divisionism: every form is built from small dabs of unmixed pigment — complementary hues side by side that blend optically — with the canvas weave peeking between the dots and a dotted painted border.

Halftone Pop Panel halftone-pop

A Lichtenstein-style blown-up comic panel: fat tapering black brush outlines, mechanical Ben-Day dot fields in red and blue, flat primary yellow, a tearful close-up and hand-lettered balloon.

Risograph Zine risograph

Three fluorescent spot inks (pink, medium blue, yellow) laid down as separate drum passes and multiplied on off-white stock — misregistered plates, grainy patchy solids, dotted tints and roller streaks.

Linocut Relief Print linocut

A hand-carved two-colour relief print: tapering white gouge strokes cut from dense black, parallel carving for tone, a red reduction layer, salty uneven ink on cream rice paper, signed and numbered in pencil.

Wood Type Letterpress letterpress

A two-ink wood-type broadside on cream stock: mixed display faces set block by block, each letter inked a little differently, wood grain and worn edges in the solids, ink squeezed to the rims and the whole forme bitten into the paper.

Vintage Newsprint newsprint

A 1950s broadsheet front page: blackletter masthead, condensed banner headline, dense justified greeked columns and a coarse halftone wire photo, printed in thin uneven ink on yellowed pulp with show-through from the reverse.

Silkscreen Grid screenprint-grid

A Warhol-style repeat portrait: the same robot pulled eight times through a grainy black photo screen over loose, hand-cut flat colour plates in garish combinations, each pull misregistered and streaked by the squeegee.

Shadow Puppet Theatre shadow-puppet

Black cut-out silhouettes with punched lace-like cut-work, pinned joints and thin control rods, pressed against a backlit cloth screen glowing amber at the lamp and falling to red-brown at the edges, with coloured gels in the openings.

Claymation Set claymation

A plasticine stop-motion still: chunky hand-squished characters and props with soft waxy subsurface shading, thumbprints, tool marks and lumpy silhouettes on a sculpted clay set, shot with shallow depth of field.

Cut-Paper Diorama cut-paper

A layered cardstock shadow-box: every shape is a separate scissor-cut sheet with fibre texture, a lit paper edge and a soft drop shadow onto the sheet behind it; torn edges show the white core of the paper.

Origami Studio origami

Folded-paper models shot on a seamless studio sweep: every form is flat facets with consistent fold shading, crisp crease lines, two-tone paper and soft table shadows.

Punk Zine Collage collage-zine

A photocopied cut-and-paste zine spread: torn halftone scraps, ransom-note letters cut from mismatched magazines, masking tape and staples, crushed to high-contrast black toner with one fluoro-pink spot ink overprinted off-register.

Felt & Patchwork felt-quilt

A cosy patchwork quilt of cotton prints with puffy quilted squares, topped with fuzzy felt appliqué edged in blanket stitch, button "nodes" sewn on and joined by running-stitch thread, plus an embroidered label.

Illuminated Manuscript illuminated

A Book of Hours folio: mottled vellum with ruling and pricking, textura in iron-gall ink with vermilion rubrics, a historiated initial on raised burnished gold, lapis, rose and malachite with white-lead filigree, ivy-leaf rinceaux with gold bezants, and drolleries in the margins.

Manga Page manga-panel

A black-and-white manga page: slanted panel gutters, brush-tapered ink, radiating focus lines, true halftone screentone gradients, katakana sound effects with white knock-out borders and hand-lettered speech balloons.

Tarot Card tarot-card

An aged art-nouveau tarot trump on crushed velvet: bold even outlines, flat muted lithograph colours, gold-foil halos and borders, celestial symbols and a worn, foxed cardstock with frayed corners.

Botanical Plate botanical-plate

A hand-coloured copperplate natural-history plate: swelling engraved hatching that follows every form, loose transparent watercolour tints laid over the print, numbered figures, Latin italic captions and foxed rag paper with a pressed plate mark.

Byzantine Mosaic mosaic

A Byzantine wall mosaic built from thousands of hand-cut tesserae laid in rows that echo every contour (andamento), with mortar grout, bevelled tile edges, per-tile colour variation and a glinting gold-smalti ground.

Sticky-Note Wall sticky-notes

A brainstorming cork board: curling Post-its with adhesive bands and lifted-corner shadows, marker handwriting and doodles, a taped index card, push pins and red yarn connecting the ideas.

Patent Drawing patent-drawing

A 1930s US patent sheet: ruling-pen black ink line art with shade lines, parallel-line and stipple shading, section hatching, reference numerals on curved leaders, typeset header and inked signatures on yellowed paper.

Ukiyo-e Woodblock ukiyo-e

An Edo-period woodblock print in the manner of Hokusai: Prussian-blue bokashi gradients, a towering wave with claw-like foam whose spray breaks into data cubes, a cargo ship stacked with server racks in the trough, flat colour blocks with carved keyblock outlines, wood grain and washi fibre, a vertical-text cartouche and vermilion seal.

Oscilloscope Vector Art oscilloscope

Oscilloscope-music XY art on an analogue lab scope: one P31 green beam draws everything, bright where it slows at turns and dim on fast retrace lines, with bloom and halation behind an internal 8x10 graticule, framed by a moulded CRT bezel and a knobbed instrument front panel.

16-Bit Pixel Odyssey pixel-16bit

A SNES-era cutscene: 320x180 hand-placed pixels blown up 4x, a strict ~40-colour palette, banded sky with checkerboard dither transitions, layered parallax and an RPG dialog box.

Phosphor Terminal crt-terminal

A green P1-phosphor CRT: VT323 boot log with bloom and halation, curved scanlines, true per-pixel barrel distortion with RGB fringing at the edges, tube vignette, hum bar, and a glass face catching the room light inside a plastic bezel.

Pocket Monochrome gameboy

An original DMG handheld frame: 160x144 pixels in exactly four pea-soup greens, a visible LCD pixel grid with each pixel casting a faint shadow on the reflective backing, motion ghosting, and the purple-grey bezel with its striped DOT MATRIX label.

Vector Arcade 1980 vector-arcade

An XY vector monitor cabinet game: hair-thin phosphor beams on pure black, additive bloom, brighter dwell dots where the beam pauses at vertices, dimmer long strokes, wireframe 3D in perspective and a hand-built stroke font.

ASCII Demoscene ascii-render

A ray-marched 3D torus rasterised into a strict monospace character grid via a luminance ramp, colour-coded like a 90s demoscene intro: box-drawn title panel, plasma backdrop, copper bars and a sine scroller.

MacPaint 1984 mac-1bit

Pure 1-bit black & white at the original 72-dpi grain: real Atkinson-dithered grayscale (blown-out highlights, crunchy shadows), 8x8 fill patterns, striped title bars, marching ants and bitmap type.

Synthwave Outrun synthwave

80s outrun poster: neon grid highway to a striped sunset, wireframe vector mountains, chrome-beveled italic title with a horizon reflection and a hot-pink neon script, all bathed in bloom.

Win95 Desktop win95

A mid-90s beige-box desktop at 2x pixel scale: teal wallpaper, 2-pixel bevelled grey chrome, navy title bars, aliased system text and a trail of frozen error dialogs.

Vaporwave vaporwave

Pastel-neon dreamscape: sliced sunset sun, glowing grid floor, a glitching marble bust on a checkerboard plinth, palm silhouettes, katakana, and a chewed-up VHS tape finish.

Isometric Pastel isometric

Clean vector isometric illustration: true 30° projection, flat three-tone face shading, soft pastel palette with a single coral accent, tiny people for scale and long soft shadows on a floating tile.

Voxel Diorama voxel

MagicaVoxel-style diorama: a floating voxel island with a waving robot, chunky trees and a pond — three-tone cube faces, per-vertex ambient occlusion in the creases, ray-marched soft shadows and a warm toy palette.

Low-Poly Faceted low-poly

Faceted low-poly 3D: a triangulated noise terrain with flat per-face Lambert shading, atmospheric depth fog, cone trees and a faceted rocket lifting off into a dawn gradient sky.

Glassmorphism UI glassmorphism

Frosted-glass UI: translucent panels that genuinely blur the vivid gradient blobs and orbs behind them, with 1px light borders, a diagonal specular sheen, fine frost grain and crisp Inter type.

Soft 3D Clay soft-3d

Dribbble-style “puffy” 3D icons: pastel matte-clay objects with chunky rounded extrusions, soft core shadows, bright bounce-light rims, glossy specular blobs and blurry contact shadows on a seamless pastel sweep.

Hidden-Line Wireframe wireframe-terrain

Vector-display 3D: a perspective wire-mesh landscape with true hidden-line removal (back-to-front quads filled with the night before stroking), a wireframe moon, phosphor-cyan lines with bloom on deep navy, and HUD coordinate labels.

1940s Film Noir film-noir

A high-contrast black-and-white still from a forties detective picture: venetian-blind light slicing across a fedora silhouette, a glowing terminal as the only other light, cigarette smoke hanging in the beams, with heavy nitrate grain, gate weave, dust and scratches.

Bioluminescent Deep Sea deep-sea

The midnight zone: near-black water with parallax marine snow, and nothing lit but living light — a jellyfish whose nerve net glows like a neural network, a siphonophore chain, a rainbow-rippling comb jelly and an anglerfish lure. Additive cyan, teal and electric-blue glow with magenta and amber accents; type is bioluminescent.

Neon Sign at Night neon-sign

Hand-bent glass neon on an old brick wall after rain: white-hot tube cores, saturated colour halos, painted-out blockout tube, clips and electrodes, light spilling across the brickwork and smearing in the wet pavement.

Holographic Foil Card holographic-foil

A holo-rare trading card and die-cut sticker: cracked-ice foil whose rainbow diffraction shifts with angle and surface normals, embossed robot, sunburst and lettering catching specular glints, printed ink sitting on top, glitter flecks and rainbow spill on the desk.

Thermal Camera thermal-camera

A handheld IR camera frame in ironbow: soft low-res heat field, cold glasses and warm breath, hot coffee and GPU racks, edge-enhanced outlines, sensor noise and the camera’s own HUD with spot meter, box measurement and scale bar.

Light Painting light-painting

A 30-second exposure in a dark field: a neural network drawn in the air with an LED wand and a twisting rainbow light-tube ribbon, hand-jittered trails with hot cores and coloured falloff, a ghost of the painter, pinpoint stars, horizon bokeh and colour spill on the grass.

Radiograph on Lightbox x-ray

A blue-base X-ray film clipped to a glowing viewer: additive translucent density of a robot hand — hollow-shelled bones, pivot pins, screws, tendons, battery cell and gears — with collimation borders, lead markers, an ID flash, grease-pencil notes, scratches and dust.

Editorial Chart editorial-chart

A prestige-newspaper data graphic on FT salmon: serif headline and dek, hairline grid, one claret highlight series against quiet greys, direct labels and hand-annotated callouts, small-caps source line.

Transit Map transit-map

A Beck-style metro diagram of an AI pipeline: fat coloured lines locked to 0/45/90 degrees with rounded bends, line-colour station ticks, black-ringed interchanges, a river and a boxed legend, all in clean sans lettering.

ISOTYPE Pictograms isotype

Vienna Method pictorial statistics: rows of identical flat pictograms where each symbol is a fixed quantity, partial symbols for remainders, three muted litho inks on a strict grid with geometric sans lettering.

Ebru Paper Marbling paper-marbling

Turkish ebru on laid paper: a battal stone ground of floated pigments raked into gel-git chevrons and combed, then suminagashi ring-drops pulled by a stylus into tulips — built with the exact drop and tine transforms.

Kinetic Type kinetic-type

A typographic music-video frame: condensed words cropped edge to edge with zero leading, filled vs outlined, strobe echoes, a slice glitch and one word stretched and filled with a halftone dreamscape — strictly two colours.

Op Art Sphere op-art

Hard-edged black/ivory checkerboard that swells into a lens-like sphere and ripples at the margins — Vasarely and Riley optical vibration, flat acrylic on primed canvas.

Nail & Thread String Art string-art

Taut cotton threads strung between brass nails on a stained walnut board; every curve is an envelope of straight chords, with thread translucency, sheen and cast shadows, plus pyrography lettering.

Guilloché Security Print spirograph

Banknote-grade lathe work: hairline hypotrochoid rosettes and woven sine-ring meshes in split-fountain iris inks on fibred security paper, with engraved serif lettering, microtext and red serials.

Multi-scale Truchet truchet

Bold two-ink multi-scale Truchet tiling of winged quarter-circle tiles whose paths flow continuously across three scales; a third ink fills only the closed regions that fall inside the letters "AI", so the word surfaces from the maze.

Psychedelic Poster psychedelic

1960s San Francisco concert-poster psychedelia: full-strength inks in vibrating complementary pairs, liquid churning ring bands, sunbursts and a mirror-symmetric eye-flower, with bulbous melting Shrikhand lettering on worn poster stock.

Cosmic Star Chart cosmic

Deep-space illustration crossed with an engraved celestial atlas: fbm nebulae in teal, violet, rose and gold, a lit ringed gas giant with cratered moons, comets and a diffraction-spiked star, overlaid with hairline gold and pale-cyan chart work (dotted orbits with arrowheads, degree rings, ring markers, small-caps serif labels).