Felt tip on line

How to use it

Tell most of the clip as full-frame line drawings with one felt-tip colour scribbled in per tip, cutting back to the speaker once or twice.

Where the speaker sits

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Drawn over: marks and type drawn over the full speaker. Stock speaker from Pexels.

Palette

THIS IS A MOODBOARD, NOT A TEMPLATE. The style below is inspiration for the look and feel. Keep its materials, colours, textures and the way it moves, but invent your own scenes, characters and objects for this clip. You are not limited to anything shown in the preview, and nothing in it has to appear. Use illustration and animation to help tell the clip's story.

STORY FIRST. Read the whole clip before you design anything.
1. Write the clip's arc in one line: setup, tension, turn, pay-off. Name the one line that is the reveal.
2. Tag every sentence with its job: setup, context, tension, turn, reveal, example, number, contrast, list, quote, feeling, metaphor, callback, pay-off, aside.
3. The visuals carry the whole clip. If the clip shows the speaker's face, open on them (the first scene keeps them on screen) unless the person says otherwise. After that, never cut back to the speaker full-frame unless the person asks for it; if they do, only on the ending, never in the middle of an explanation. The speaker can still sit inside a scene (a corner, a split or drawn in) when the person wants to be seen.
4. Build one flowing visual story, not a new picture per sentence. Each scene covers a whole thought (one to three sentences), holds 3 to 8 seconds and turns into the next.
5. Start each scene on the first word of its sentence, or up to half a second before. Never cut mid-sentence.
6. Inside a scene, bring small details in on the words they show (an item, a tag, a tick). Earlier details stay.
7. Choose one or two recurring objects or characters in the first scene and bring them back changed. Callbacks beat new pictures.
8. Build up the same picture where you can (add to it, move the camera across it) instead of replacing it.
9. Energy: about 80 percent still, drifting or gentle. Allow one big move in the whole clip, on the reveal, for 1 to 2 seconds, then settle and hold.
10. Numbers sit on a scale (gauge, bar, table, timeline) and hold long enough to read. Contrasts are a still split or the same layout twice.
11. Feelings get a quiet image, or one of the cuts back to the speaker; never effects.
12. On-screen text names, labels or quotes; it never repeats the caption. Five words or fewer per label.
13. End every scene by settling or thinning out, or by turning into the next scene. No exit effects.
14. The style sets the look. These rules set when, how long and how calmly. If the style's own motion rules ask for more energy than this, use less.

VISUAL STYLE: Felt tip on line
Slice style ref: sref-79CNV7
Fine black line drawing with one hot felt-tip colour scribbled in. Palette: white #FAFAF7, fine line #161616, felt-tip orange #FF6A13, felt-tip blue #2D6FD6 (one per scene, both only rarely). Line: a fine, even black line, calm and unhurried. Colour: loose felt-tip zigzag hatching at about 70 percent opacity, offset a few pixels from the shape and overshooting its edges; overlaps go darker, streaks show. Texture: marker streaks and overlaps only. Light: none, no shading. Camera: locked. Motion: lines draw on, then colour scribbles in fast (6 to 10 frames), on twos; details land on the word and stay. Type: hand-lettered marker capitals in the hot colour. The one rule: the line is calm and black; the colour is fast and messy and never stays inside. DON'T: flat fills, more than two colours, shading.
Accent: as in the palette.
Frame shape: ask me before you start (9:16 vertical, 4:5 portrait, 1:1 square or 16:9 wide).
Energy: normal.

TECH: one HTML file, one GSAP 3 timeline created paused as window.__timelines.main, duration = the scene's length, transforms and opacity only.

Look rules

• Fine black line drawing with one hot felt-tip colour scribbled in.
• Palette: white #FAFAF7, fine line #161616, felt-tip orange #FF6A13, felt-tip blue #2D6FD6 (one per scene, both only rarely).
• Line: a fine, even black line, calm and unhurried.
• Colour: loose felt-tip zigzag hatching at about 70 percent opacity, offset a few pixels from the shape and overshooting its edges; overlaps go darker, streaks show.
• Texture: marker streaks and overlaps only.
• Light: none, no shading.
• Camera: locked.
• Motion: lines draw on, then colour scribbles in fast (6 to 10 frames), on twos; details land on the word and stay.
• Type: hand-lettered marker capitals in the hot colour.
• The one rule: the line is calm and black; the colour is fast and messy and never stays inside.
• DON'T: flat fills, more than two colours, shading.

What it suits

Best for

Practical coaching and everyday tips with an upbeat hand-drawn feel.

Avoid for

Grief, dark subjects or serious news.

Content

Advice, How-to, Motivation

Tone

Upbeat, Playful

Pace

Medium

Topics

tips, coaching, productivity, habits, design, ideas, practical, advice, routine, creative

Colours

#FAFAF7 #161616 #FF6A13 #2D6FD6

For AIs: this style as plain text.