Bold flat sky

How to use it

Run most of the clip as full-frame poster skies with one figure making the journey, cutting back to the speaker once or twice.

Where the speaker sits

Full sceneSuits itSmallSuits itSplitWorksSideWorksDrawn overAvoid

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: Bold flat sky
Slice style ref: sref-811S8H
Bold flat sky. One saturated flat sky, a figure in its opposite colour, stylised clouds sliding by.
Palette: #FF6A13 flat orange sky, #1F6FD1 cobalt for figures, #F8E3A1 cream clouds and sun, #F2C14E cloud shade, #0E1726 night band for the ground. One bold field and its complement; nothing else competes.
Line and fill: flat fills everywhere. Only fine cream linework on figures (a strap, a seam, a scarf). Clouds are clusters of overlapping circles with a flat darker shade on the bottom half.
Depth: flat poster layers, not gradients. The low sun sits inside one or two flat rings of slightly lighter orange; distant ridges are the night colour laid over the sky at rising strength, nearest is solid.
Texture: faint soft noise over the whole frame.
Light: flat, with that small stepped glow round the horizon.
Camera: locked. Parallax only: two cloud layers and the ridges scroll at different steady speeds.
Motion: figures walk in place while the world slides past them; smooth, steady, never sped up. Small markers pass at the moment they matter.
Type: small clean sans, high contrast, tucked near a corner on the dark band, a few words.
The rule: one bold colour field and its opposite colour, nothing else competes.
Don'ts: no gradients in the sky, no third strong colour, no clutter, no outlines round shapes.
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

• Bold flat sky. One saturated flat sky, a figure in its opposite colour, stylised clouds sliding by.
• Palette: #FF6A13 flat orange sky, #1F6FD1 cobalt for figures, #F8E3A1 cream clouds and sun, #F2C14E cloud shade, #0E1726 night band for the ground. One bold field and its complement; nothing else competes.
• Line and fill: flat fills everywhere. Only fine cream linework on figures (a strap, a seam, a scarf). Clouds are clusters of overlapping circles with a flat darker shade on the bottom half.
• Depth: flat poster layers, not gradients. The low sun sits inside one or two flat rings of slightly lighter orange; distant ridges are the night colour laid over the sky at rising strength, nearest is solid.
• Texture: faint soft noise over the whole frame.
• Light: flat, with that small stepped glow round the horizon.
• Camera: locked. Parallax only: two cloud layers and the ridges scroll at different steady speeds.
• Motion: figures walk in place while the world slides past them; smooth, steady, never sped up. Small markers pass at the moment they matter.
• Type: small clean sans, high contrast, tucked near a corner on the dark band, a few words.
• The rule: one bold colour field and its opposite colour, nothing else competes.
• Don'ts: no gradients in the sky, no third strong colour, no clutter, no outlines round shapes.

What it suits

Best for

Journeys, persistence and confident talk about keeping going.

Avoid for

Comedy, dense data or busy lists.

Content

Motivation, Personal story, Advice

Tone

Bold, Calm, Warm

Pace

Slow

Topics

journey, persistence, goals, travel, music, freedom, ambition, road, future, resilience

Colours

#FF6A13 #1F6FD1 #F8E3A1 #0E1726 #F2C14E

For AIs: this style as plain text.