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Uses pictures
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Grey photocopied scraps and photo cut-outs shouted over by two flat, loud colours.

Collage & photo · Medium
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Layered strips of torn paper, newspaper and poster, headline letters cut from print.

Collage & photo · Medium
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Odd treasures set one by one into the boxes of a dark wooden cabinet, each with a small brass number.

Collage & photo · Calm
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Old objects printed in halftone on flat colour tiles, numbered like a mail-order page.

Collage & photo · Medium
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Torn pieces of an old map with cut-out places pinned on it and a red route drawing itself between them.

Collage & photo · Calm
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Soft pictures built from hand-torn coloured paper, white fibre showing at every edge.

Paper & cut · Calm
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White card sculpted into soft bas-relief, its form shown only by a slow raking light.

Paper & cut · Calm
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coloured-pencil lines wander across cream paper, tiny figures stand on them.

Drawn & painted · Calm
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frame-by-frame figures in a thin wobbly line and flat fills on a single colour ground.

Drawn & painted · Calm
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a thin black line drawing with one hot felt-tip colour scribbled in.

Drawn & painted · Medium
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blue biro on a soft quilted café napkin: the idea sketched, crossed out, and circled.

Drawn & painted · Calm
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a mid-century screenprint poster that breathes, one word at a time.

Print & press · Calm
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A full-bleed two-drum risograph: blue and fluoro orange that overprint into a third, darker colour.

Print & press · Calm
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A close-up of a real book page being read: pencil brackets, a note in the margin, one highlighter stroke.

Print & press · Calm
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Loose cobalt brushwork on glossy white tin-glazed tiles, flipping like cards to change the picture.

Handmade objects · Calm
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Pictures set from small stone and gold-glass tesserae, rows following the form, mortar between.

Handmade objects · Calm
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grainy camcorder footage with green terminal text typing over it.

Light, glass & film · Calm
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Black and white film strips glowing on a light table, marked up in red grease pencil, with one loupe on the keeper.

Light, glass & film · Calm
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Distressed screenprinted letters on textured black inside a thin technical frame.

Kinetic type · Medium
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Bold letters that wobble, tilt and get poked, as if hand-cut and alive.

Kinetic type · Lively
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Chunky letters with deep 3D extrusions and hatched shadows, bursting with confetti.

Kinetic type · Lively
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rubbery flat characters and simple chart marks in a clean explainer world.

Infographic & data · Medium
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a continuous drawn world with thick even outlines that the camera scrolls through.

Infographic & data · Medium
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clean black line cartoons with solid black shadow spots on white.

Cartoon & character · Calm
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Glossy die-cut vinyl stickers with fat white borders, peeled off a sheet and pressed down.

Cartoon & character · Medium
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one saturated flat sky, a complementary figure, stylised clouds sliding by.

Digital art · Calm
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Grey photo cut-outs doing strange things on graph paper above a duotone landscape band.

Collage & photo · Calm
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A greyscale halftone cut-out with a fat white sticker edge, sitting in a field of dots.

Collage & photo · Calm
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A single colour of line, chalk white or cobalt, drawn straight onto real footage.

Collage & photo · Calm
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Engraved plants and insects taped to a museum card, numbered, labelled and studied under a glass.

Collage & photo · Calm
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Real clouds and a few floating objects drifting in a pastel sky, slow and weightless.

Collage & photo · Calm
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A gem and a crystal floating in dark velvet, caught by a slow travelling light.

Collage & photo · Calm
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A nearly empty cream page with a crayon line, one torn photo square and a few flat bars, balanced like a modernist poster.

Paper & cut · Calm
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Crisp square paper that folds along hard creases, two-tone faces flipping into new shapes.

Paper & cut · Calm
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Envelopes, stamps, tickets and old pages laid on kraft paper, then franked with a postmark.

Paper & cut · Calm
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painted storybook landscapes at dusk, warm light catching the edges.

Drawn & painted · Calm
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a deadpan painting of an ordinary moment, a little awkward, quietly funny.

Drawn & painted · Calm
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one huge restless pen scribble and one tiny figure, with a lot of white space.

Drawn & painted · Calm
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dusty chalk on a worn green slate, then one coloured loop for the idea that matters.

Drawn & painted · Calm
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Blue ballpoint doodles on dot-grid paper: pencil guide first, then ink, then a highlighter that misses the lines.

Drawn & painted · Calm
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risograph pictures on a rounded card, halftone pink, line frames and sparkles.

Print & press · Lively
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a sun-printed blueprint on brushed cyanotype paper, drafted line by line, then one yellow flow.

Print & press · Calm
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Soft clay figures and sets, thumbprints visible, warm studio light.

Handmade objects · Calm
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Pictures inlaid from contrasting wood veneers, grain direction as shading, under a polished finish.

Handmade objects · Calm
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A lamp-lit cork board of photos, typed cards and notes, slowly tied together with red string.

Handmade objects · Calm
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frosted glass cards float through a dark room lit only by a screen, one drifts into focus.

Light, glass & film · Calm
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A speech built as a tight puzzle of words, each sized to fill its line, the camera turning to find the next.

Kinetic type · Medium
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Letters stretch, squeeze and extend their strokes like rubber.

Kinetic type · Medium
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Words wrapped round a turning drum or rolling like a counter.

Kinetic type · Lively
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Warm flat shapes wipe across the frame to reveal small and big type.

Kinetic type · Calm
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red technical annotations, grids and readouts around a bold word or shape on black.

Infographic & data · Medium
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An old engraved paper map: coasts ringed with water lines, and one dotted route inking itself across the sea.

Infographic & data · Calm
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A tiny low-resolution world in a handful of colours, dithered skies and stepped, chunky motion.

Cartoon & character · Calm
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a scratchy early-cartoon film loop: noodle limbs, pie eyes, then a flush of two-strip colour.

Cartoon & character · Medium
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saturated hard cel-shaded objects with sharp highlights and slash wipes.

Digital art · Lively
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Everyday objects in their own colours, enormous next to tiny buildings, on a flat sand and terracotta world.

Collage & photo · Calm
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Cut-out hands reaching in from the edges to point at, hold and pass real objects over flat colour.

Collage & photo · Calm
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Unlikely objects stacked into a tower in one green wash, set down one by one until it holds.

Collage & photo · Calm
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A photocopied zine page: blue halftone cut-outs, a fluoro orange shape, ransom letters and masking tape.

Collage & photo · Medium
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A printed paper theatre: engraved arch, flat painted wings and figures gliding on sliders.

Paper & cut · Calm
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Layers of hand-cut coloured paper stacked in a shadow box, each one casting a soft shadow on the next.

Paper & cut · Calm
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bold oil pastel strokes in saturated colour, all hatched in one direction and boiling.

Drawn & painted · Medium
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a dark painted room where one hot light does all the talking.

Drawn & painted · Calm
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streaky marker on a glossy whiteboard full of ghosts, the tally grows, one red ring.

Drawn & painted · Medium
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everything drawn and shaded in one red ink, stippled grain for shadow.

Print & press · Calm
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a one-block colour woodcut: soft inked shapes with paper-white grooves between, printed area by area.

Print & press · Calm
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A hand-carved lino print in black and one rust block, every form built from tapered gouge marks.

Print & press · Calm
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Soft wool felt shapes with fuzzy edges and running stitches, pressed onto a felt board.

Handmade objects · Calm
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old things on a sunlit shelf with stuck-on googly eyes, quietly watching the room.

Handmade objects · Calm
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soft glowing colour fields drifting under heavy film grain.

Light, glass & film · Calm
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jewel glass in a dark stone wall slowly fills with sun and spills colour onto the floor.

Light, glass & film · Calm
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One heavy word per beat, hard cut, flat speckled colour.

Kinetic type · Lively
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A calm paragraph of editorial serif where one word moves and the rest make room.

Kinetic type · Calm
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The speaker's own footage plays inside huge letters, then breaks out to fill the frame.

Kinetic type · Calm
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One small word on a flat field, and a single drawn line that loops through to lead to the next.

Kinetic type · Calm
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a printed walking map: tinted hills, brown contours, a red dashed trail climbing at walking pace.

Infographic & data · Calm
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Round, outline-free cartoon characters made of simple soft shapes, full of squash and stretch.

Cartoon & character · Medium
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Angular 1950s-style cartoon: flat off-register colour blocks, wobbly ink and held poses.

Cartoon & character · Calm
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simple flat shapes shaded only with a fine grain brush.

Digital art · Calm

How to use a style

  1. Pick a look by feel. Open it to see it bigger, its colours, its rules and what it suits.
  2. Copy the ref, or copy a prompt. "Any AI" carries the whole look and the rules for telling your clip's story. "With Slice connected" is short, because your AI reads the style from Slice.
  3. Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or any AI with your clip's transcript. The AI keeps the look and invents the scenes. Most of the clip becomes animated scenes, with a cut back to the speaker once or twice.

For AI agents

Every style is also plain text: /styles.txt lists them all, and each style page has a .md version. The API needs no key: GET /api/v1/styles, GET /api/v1/styles/<code>, and POST /api/v1/styles/suggest with a transcript for a few suggestions with a reason each. With the Slice connector, your AI can call get_visual_style and suggest_visual_styles itself.

Questions

What is a visual style?

A look and feel for the pictures in a short clip: the materials, colours, textures and the way things move. It is a moodboard, not a template. Your AI keeps the look and invents its own scenes for what your clip says.

What is a style ref?

A short code such as sref-V4RYN2 that names one style. Copy it into Claude, ChatGPT or any AI. With Slice connected, the AI looks the style up itself. Without it, the ref points to the style's page and its plain text version.

How do I use a style with my AI?

Open a style and copy one of its two prompts. "Any AI" holds the whole look plus the rules for telling the clip's story. "With Slice connected" is short, because the AI reads the style from Slice. Paste it with your clip's transcript.

Which style fits my clip?

Pick by feel, or let Slice suggest. Send a transcript or a script to the suggest endpoint, or ask your AI with Slice connected, and you get a few styles with a short reason each. They are only suggestions: choose one, mix them, or use none.

Do the styles cost anything?

Browsing, copying refs and prompts, the plain text records and the suggest endpoint are free and need no account. An account lets you keep favourites.

Can I make the clip itself in Slice?

Yes. Shorts by Slice turns a long episode into captioned clips, and with Slice connected your AI can build visual scenes on top of a clip in any of these looks.

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