Crayon line storybook

How to use it

Tell most of the clip as one wandering crayon line through full-frame storybook scenes, with a cut back to the speaker once or twice for the lesson.

Where the speaker sits

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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: Crayon line storybook
Slice style ref: sref-CHG3S5
Coloured pencil and crayon on one sheet of cream paper (#F1E8D6). Pencils: blue #2F5EA8, red #C8432B, ochre #E3A93A, green #3E8E5A. Line: strokes about 6px wide built from several thin parallel strands with broken edges and wax skips where the paper tooth shows through. Fills: tiny figures in small hatched fills of one pencil colour. Texture: paper grain across the whole frame, every stroke shows tooth. Light: soft and low; tiny figures cast one soft shadow. Camera: locked; at most a slow tilt along a line. Motion: lines draw on smoothly and tangle; figures walk on twos; words write on stroke by stroke and stay. Type: small handwritten pencil capitals, centred near the top. The one rule: everything is drawn with coloured pencil on one sheet of cream paper. DON'T: vector-clean lines, black outlines, saturated digital colour, heavy type.
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

• Coloured pencil and crayon on one sheet of cream paper (#F1E8D6).
• Pencils: blue #2F5EA8, red #C8432B, ochre #E3A93A, green #3E8E5A.
• Line: strokes about 6px wide built from several thin parallel strands with broken edges and wax skips where the paper tooth shows through.
• Fills: tiny figures in small hatched fills of one pencil colour.
• Texture: paper grain across the whole frame, every stroke shows tooth.
• Light: soft and low; tiny figures cast one soft shadow.
• Camera: locked; at most a slow tilt along a line.
• Motion: lines draw on smoothly and tangle; figures walk on twos; words write on stroke by stroke and stay.
• Type: small handwritten pencil capitals, centred near the top.
• The one rule: everything is drawn with coloured pencil on one sheet of cream paper.
• DON'T: vector-clean lines, black outlines, saturated digital colour, heavy type.

What it suits

Best for

Life lessons, gratitude, coaching and faith told as a gentle storybook.

Avoid for

Hard news, numbers or loud hooks.

Content

Faith, Advice, Wellbeing, Personal story

Tone

Tender, Warm, Calm

Pace

Slow

Topics

life lesson, gratitude, faith, coaching, growth, kindness, journey, hope, encouragement, purpose

Colours

#F1E8D6 #2F5EA8 #C8432B #E3A93A #3E8E5A

For AIs: this style as plain text.