Marker doodles on footage

How to use it

Draw the doodles straight over the speaker's own footage for most of the clip, so the clip stays on them and the doodles point, label and react, with one or two clean moments left undrawn.

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.

PICTURES: this style uses photo cut-outs. Before you start, ask the person one short question: use stills from their own clip, Slice's stock search, their own uploads, or (only if you can make images) images you generate. If they don't mind, use stills from the clip, then stock.

VISUAL STYLE: Marker doodles on footage
Slice style ref: sref-CFHN1D
LOOK: real footage, kept natural but turned to soft black and white whenever its colours fight the markers (always if anything purple is in shot), with bright, kid-simple marker doodles on top: #FFD23F yellow, #3FA9F5 blue, #FF5A4E red, #2ECC71 green, outlined in #111111.
LINE AND FILL: wobbly black marker outline; flat marker fills with streaky strokes, set about 2 px off the line so the colour does not quite reach it.
TEXTURE: marker streaks only; the footage keeps its own grain and light, no stylising filters.
LIGHT: none on the doodles; they are flat stickers on the real world.
CAMERA: the footage camera. Doodles roughly track the surfaces they sit on.
MOTION: doodles on twos with line boil every 2 frames; they pop on in 3 frames with bouncy squash and stretch, then sit and boil gently. One bigger pop moment per beat.
TYPE: hand-lettered marker words with an uneven baseline, sometimes on a quick marker scribble.
THE RULE: the world is real; everything added is a kid-simple marker doodle.
DON'T: no clean vector doodles, no shading, no stylising filters on the footage beyond the plain black and white, no doodles covering faces.
Treat these as the look, never a template: invent fresh pictures, words and compositions from what this clip says.
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

• LOOK: real footage, kept natural but turned to soft black and white whenever its colours fight the markers (always if anything purple is in shot), with bright, kid-simple marker doodles on top: #FFD23F yellow, #3FA9F5 blue, #FF5A4E red, #2ECC71 green, outlined in #111111.
• LINE AND FILL: wobbly black marker outline; flat marker fills with streaky strokes, set about 2 px off the line so the colour does not quite reach it.
• TEXTURE: marker streaks only; the footage keeps its own grain and light, no stylising filters.
• LIGHT: none on the doodles; they are flat stickers on the real world.
• CAMERA: the footage camera. Doodles roughly track the surfaces they sit on.
• MOTION: doodles on twos with line boil every 2 frames; they pop on in 3 frames with bouncy squash and stretch, then sit and boil gently. One bigger pop moment per beat.
• TYPE: hand-lettered marker words with an uneven baseline, sometimes on a quick marker scribble.
• THE RULE: the world is real; everything added is a kid-simple marker doodle.
• DON'T: no clean vector doodles, no shading, no stylising filters on the footage beyond the plain black and white, no doodles covering faces.
• Treat these as the look, never a template: invent fresh pictures, words and compositions from what this clip says.

What it suits

Best for

Light everyday stories, travel moments and jokes where doodles add fun to real footage.

Avoid for

Serious, sensitive or grieving topics.

Content

Comedy, Personal story, Advice

Tone

Playful, Upbeat, Warm

Pace

Medium

Topics

everyday, travel, food, family, funny, weekend, adventure, routine, friends, holiday

Colours

#FFD23F #3FA9F5 #FF5A4E #2ECC71 #111111

For AIs: this style as plain text.