Grain gradient

How to use it

Let the drifting grain fields carry most of the clip as full-frame mood scenes with a few words set on them, cutting back to the speaker once or twice.

Where the speaker sits

Full sceneSuits itSmallSuits itSplitAvoidSideWorksDrawn overWorks

Full scene: the scene fills the frame. 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: Grain gradient
Slice style ref: sref-7HF6A5
Grain gradient. Soft glowing colour fields drifting under heavy film grain.
Palette: #FF6A3D warm orange, #FFC857 glow yellow, #2F80ED clear blue, #18A999 sea green, #111418 deep ground. Keep warm and blue apart, with sea green between them, so no blend ever turns purple or pink-purple.
Line and fill: no lines at all. Large blurred blobs and soft forms of light that bloom into each other.
Texture: heavy fine film grain over everything, moving every frame.
Light: the colour is the light. Glows screen into each other; one slow swell of the warm light is the peak.
Camera: locked. Only the colour drifts.
Motion: slow drifting and morphing on smooth easing, loops that never snap. Type fades in while its letter spacing slowly opens, holds, then fades.
Type: a light clean grotesque or light wide sans, white, lowercase or small spaced capitals, generous tracking, one short line at a time.
The rule: soft colour light under grain; nothing hard-edged except the type.
Don'ts: no purple or pink-purple blends, no hard shapes, no outlines, no busy type, no fast moves.
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

• Grain gradient. Soft glowing colour fields drifting under heavy film grain.
• Palette: #FF6A3D warm orange, #FFC857 glow yellow, #2F80ED clear blue, #18A999 sea green, #111418 deep ground. Keep warm and blue apart, with sea green between them, so no blend ever turns purple or pink-purple.
• Line and fill: no lines at all. Large blurred blobs and soft forms of light that bloom into each other.
• Texture: heavy fine film grain over everything, moving every frame.
• Light: the colour is the light. Glows screen into each other; one slow swell of the warm light is the peak.
• Camera: locked. Only the colour drifts.
• Motion: slow drifting and morphing on smooth easing, loops that never snap. Type fades in while its letter spacing slowly opens, holds, then fades.
• Type: a light clean grotesque or light wide sans, white, lowercase or small spaced capitals, generous tracking, one short line at a time.
• The rule: soft colour light under grain; nothing hard-edged except the type.
• Don'ts: no purple or pink-purple blends, no hard shapes, no outlines, no busy type, no fast moves.

What it suits

Best for

Calm openers, wellbeing talk, brand statements and music moments that need mood more than pictures.

Avoid for

Detailed explainers, lists or numbers that need clear diagrams.

Content

Wellbeing, Announcement, Something emotional, Motivation

Tone

Calm, Warm, Dreamy

Pace

Slow

Topics

calm, wellbeing, mindfulness, music, mood, brand, intro, breathe, rest, meditation

Colours

#FF6A3D #FFC857 #2F80ED #18A999 #111418

For AIs: this style as plain text.