Animated Explainer AI video style
Animated Explainer is an AI video style: Motion-graphics metaphors, diagrams and cut-outs. See 2 real shorts made in it, then make your own from an idea, a link or a podcast episode.
Animated Explainer belongs to the Source-backed formats family, a drawn, animated treatment. The same script can be rendered in any look, so the style changes how a short feels, not what it says.
Animated Explainer examples
Real renders from the public gallery, most watched first.
- Billionaires, public highways and the case for giving back (28 seconds, 1 view)
- Master AI Agents for $1M+ Returns (5 seconds, 1 view)
Make a Animated Explainer short
- Open the composer with Animated Explainer selected and describe an idea, or paste a link or a PDF.
- Read the script it writes and change what you like.
- Render it: 1 credit per 5 seconds, and the first 5-second short is free (plans and credits).
You can also start from a podcast episode, from your own YouTube videos or from an X post.
More Source-backed formats styles
- 3D Explainer: The idea staged in 3D: objects, light and a moving camera
- Documentary B-roll: Observational B-roll look with a calm narrator
- Explainer Overlay: B-roll look with animated callouts and arrows
- Office Sketch: Workplace comedy sketch with original characters
- Illustrative Footage: Cinematic concept shot of the idea itself