AI animation examples
78 AI animated films, from crayon to chrome
Every film here was made with AI: the picture, the motion, the music and the sound. Find the look you like and we'll make your film in it.
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78 films in 11 families of animation. Each card names the look, the film and the kind of brand it suits.
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Edit & documentary
Caption News
The Bee Ledger
America lost 1.3 million bee colonies, yet the count rose 6 %: a news short that works with the sound off.
- Social news
- Report explainers
- Data shorts
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Edit & documentary
1920s Newsreel
Knock-Knee Alert
1926: the papers say the Charleston will ruin America's knees; at Ford's own picnic the kids dance it anyway.
- History stories
- Fads & eras
- Anniversaries
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Edit & documentary
Live Countdown Split-screen
Counting Itself Down
The last minute of the Artemis II launch, uncut: one cell opens to nine, and they merge into one at ignition.
- Launches
- Countdowns
- Live events
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Edit & documentary
Time-lapse Symphony
One Day in New York
One day in New York in time-lapse: rivers of light, a grid on the sixteenths, 1899 beside today.
- City films
- Music montages
- Openers
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Edit & documentary
Visual Investigation
The Hindenburg: Four Minutes, 32 Seconds
Newsreel, photos, testimony and the 1937 inquiry on one clock: five records point to the same spot.
- Reconstructions
- Fact-checks
- Incident reports
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Edit & documentary
Constructivist Montage
410 Days
The Empire State's 1931 brochure thanks its builders; the site film and Hine's photos answer: 2,500 a day.
- Industry histories
- Milestones
- Collective effort
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Edit & documentary
Sports Telestrator
Freeze Frame
Down 3–0 at half-time, Fenerbahçe scored three in 12 minutes: freeze, draw, split screen, shot map.
- Sports analysis
- Match recaps
- Coaching
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Edit & documentary
Variety Captions
Miaowu Diary EP.07
Rounded captions with layered outlines spring in, change colour and shape with the speaker's mood, and land with comic sound effects, like TV variety-show editing.
- Vlogs
- Pet videos
- Interviews
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Evidence films
Satellite Briefing
The Map Still Says Sea
A satellite follows the map to the Aral Sea and finds a desert; only the part someone dammed came back.
- Climate
- News explainers
- Geography
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Evidence films
Engineering Briefing Board
The Ship Decides
Four bridge types are tested on one briefing wall, and the ship that must pass under picks the winner.
- Engineering
- Option comparisons
- Briefings
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Evidence films
LiDAR Survey
The Fields Under the Forest
A laser survey strips the canopy off a Connecticut forest and finds 3.4 km of old farm walls.
- Heritage
- Environment
- Site surveys
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Evidence films
Projection on White Model
How a Flattened City Grew Back
A projector paints Rotterdam's white model layer by layer, from the 1940 gap to today's towers.
- Urban planning
- Exhibitions
- City data
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Evidence films
Data Physicalization
Two Spirals
Twelve years of wind and solar stacked as real plates, spiralling round a walnut dial until solar overtakes.
- Annual reports
- Investor decks
- Energy data
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Evidence films
Exploded Teardown
21 Keys, Opened
Half a mechanical keyboard comes apart in one orbit, down to the chip, then closes with its real dimensions.
- Hardware launches
- Product pages
- Spec explainers
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Evidence films
Microscope Story
Measured Blue
One continuous move from a liver slide to a single nucleus; two circles, counted pixel by pixel, differ 2.4 times in blue.
- Biomedicine
- Materials science
- Skincare science
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Evidence films
Archive Light Table
Two Seconds Short
The telegram said 57 seconds; under a loupe, the Wrights' glass negatives and the archive say 59.
- Brand history
- Archive stories
- Museums
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Hand-drawn & painting
Crayon Picture Book
The Moon Can't Sleep
The moon can't sleep, so a little girl climbs onto the roof to sing it a lullaby.
- Picture books
- Bedtime stories
- Kids' learning
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Hand-drawn & painting
Watercolor Brush
Follow the Rain
Follow the rain from Australia's red desert heart to its green coast in one unbroken painted walk.
- Nature documentary
- Travel
- Science explainers
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Hand-drawn & painting
Chinese Ink Wash
The Swordsman and the River
A swordsman crosses the river on the water and splits the current with a single stroke.
- Wuxia
- Cultural brands
- Poetry
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Hand-drawn & painting
Impasto Oil Painting
The Colour of Rain
In a grey, rainy square one red umbrella opens, and a waltz paints the whole plaza in colour.
- Music videos
- Art & culture
- Emotional ads
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Hand-drawn & painting
One-line Drawing
The Line That Never Lifted
One unbroken line draws a whole life, then the pen passes to a child.
- Brand stories
- Life milestones
- Minimal ads
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Hand-drawn & painting
Whiteboard Explainer
Einstein in Your Pocket
How your phone knows where you are: GPS, atomic clocks, and the 38 microseconds relativity adds every day.
- Explainers
- Online courses
- Science
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Hand-drawn & painting
Urban Sketch · Pen & Wash
Where the Wind Went
A park that is only a pen sketch; wherever the wind carries her straw hat, colour follows.
- City & travel
- Architecture
- Lifestyle brands
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Hand-drawn & painting
Chalkboard
The Story of Chinese Characters
Chalk writes a popular claim about two characters, wipes it, and traces one of them back three thousand years.
- Word origins
- Myth-busting
- Lessons
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Hand-drawn & painting
Frame-by-Frame
Hand Made
Hand-drawn frame by frame, with lines that jitter slightly every few frames so the picture seems to breathe. Smoke, splashes and speed lines add a crafted feel.
- Brand films
- Social ads
- Title cards
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East Asian traditions
Shadow Puppetry
Hou Yi Shoots the Suns
Ten suns scorch the earth until the archer Hou Yi draws his bow, told with leather puppets on a lit screen.
- Myths & folklore
- Heritage
- Festivals
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East Asian traditions
Ukiyo-e
Toward the Mountain
A traveller walks toward a distant mountain; every shot is a woodblock print, a great wave at the climax, the mountain and the whole scroll at the end.
- Travel
- Japanese culture
- Poetry
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East Asian traditions
Red Paper-cut
Nian Comes to Town
On New Year's Eve the beast Nian comes to town, and one girl's giant paper-cut lights up the village to scare it off.
- Lunar New Year
- Festive greetings
- Folk tales
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East Asian traditions
Paper-cut Lightbox
The Last Night Train
An old night train makes its last run, from a snowy mountain halt through a long tunnel to the sea, its lit windows going out one by one at the end of the line.
- Journeys and travel
- Farewells and anniversaries
- Places and their stories
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Print & printmaking
Risograph Print
Sunday Ride
A Sunday-morning bike ride through the city (bakery, park, riverside), each stop adding an ink until three misregistered plates overprint.
- Indie brands
- Zines
- Lifestyle
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Print & printmaking
Halftone Dossier
Case File: Chubby
A chubby orange cat stands trial for testing gravity and 4 a.m. parkour, and walks free.
- Humour
- Pet content
- Social shorts
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Print & printmaking
Woodcut Print
The Bell Founder
A village spends a whole winter casting one bell; the first time it rings, the snow stops.
- Folk tales
- Craft brands
- Book trailers
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Print & printmaking
Copperplate Engraving
The Honeybee, Plate VII
A natural-history plate engraves itself: the burin cuts the copper, the bee builds up line by line, and a watercolour wash brings it to life.
- Museum labels
- Science explainers
- Brand heritage
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Print & printmaking
Silkscreen Travel Poster
The Long Way Home
A traveller crosses the world one full-bleed screen print at a time, a ticket stub counting the distance from home, until the far side turns into the way back.
- Destination guides
- Tourism
- Event posters
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Print & printmaking
Printed Long Take
Thirty-Three Cranes
Red-crowned cranes in a Hokkaido valley, one scratchboard take, counted back from 33 to 1,927.
- Journeys
- Wildlife
- Landscapes
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Print & printmaking
Collage
Noggin Quarterly
Old photos, newspapers and torn paper cut up and put back together, with oversized heads, mouths that open on their own and halftone texture.
- Music videos
- Streetwear
- Editorial
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Graphic & type
Swiss Motion Graphics
Five Rules for a Poster
A concert poster lays itself out by five Swiss design rules; the fifth is to break just one.
- Brand identity
- Events
- Design education
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Graphic & type
60s Spy Title Sequence
The Velvet Cipher
Opening titles for an imaginary 1964 spy film: a chase for a stolen key until the shapes lock into the title.
- Title sequences
- Event openers
- Trailers
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Graphic & type
Art Deco
Midnight at the Starlight Hotel
A grand hotel, 1930: a bellboy races lifts and revolving doors to deliver one letter before midnight.
- Luxury & hospitality
- Galas
- Invitations
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Graphic & type
Blueprint
Patent Pending: The Cloud Catcher
An inventor's blueprint draws, explodes and assembles a cloud-catching machine, and its revision cloud starts to rain.
- Engineering
- Hardware launches
- Tech explainers
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Graphic & type
Stained Glass
The Dragon of the East Window
Sunlight crosses a cathedral window from dawn to dusk, waking each pane of a knight-and-dragon tale.
- Legends
- Heritage
- Holiday stories
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Graphic & type
Pictogram Motion
Left Behind
A yellow umbrella left on a bus waits out a sunny day on the lost-property shelf, then opens with 312 others when the storm comes back: objects, vehicles, weather and signs as beat-locked geometric pictograms.
- Public services and city stories
- Brand and event identity films
- Explainers told through signs and objects
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Graphic & type
ASCII / CRT Terminal
Tranquility.log
A moon-base AI wakes after forty years to a signal from Earth, and replies by drawing “home” in characters.
- Developer tools
- Sci-fi
- Tech brands
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Graphic & type
Flat Vector
Popwise: One Dot
Geometric characters and scenes in flat colour: bold blocks, few or no outlines, every element a clean vector shape.
- Product promos
- Science explainers
- Annual reports
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Graphic & type
Line Art
Atelier Linea: One Line
One thin line in a single colour draws itself on, turns and becomes the next shape, so the whole film reads as one stroke. Minimal and premium.
- Luxury brands
- Finance
- Logo animations
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Graphic & type
Shape Morph
Morphe: One Shape, Every Story
One shape turns smoothly into the next: a phone becomes a map pin, a coffee cup becomes a sunset. The story moves without a single cut.
- Explainers
- Keynotes
- Product launches
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Graphic & type
Geometric Bauhaus
Konstruktion · 20 Beats
Circles, triangles and rectangles move, rotate and scale on a strict grid in primary colours plus black and white, each move landing on the beat.
- Kinetic posters
- Music
- Events
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Information & keynote
Data Storytelling
A Hundred Summers
A hundred years of summer temperatures, where the chart itself tells the story.
- Data journalism
- Reports
- Climate & science
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Information & keynote
Isometric Infographic
From Bean to Cup
A coffee's journey from the plantation to your hands, across one isometric world.
- Process explainers
- Supply chains
- Annual reports
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Information & keynote
Dark Tech Keynote
Room to Think
Launch film for Tidy, a fictional app: one buried cursor snaps hundreds of windows back into place.
- Product launches
- Tech brands
- Keynotes
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Information & keynote
Sci-fi Hologram HUD
Volt · Spec Scan
An e-bike is scanned into a hologram; target boxes lock onto the battery, motor and brakes.
- Spec walkthroughs
- Launch videos
- Trade shows
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Information & keynote
Transit Map
6 Kilometres
A printed metro map grows from one 6 km line in 1993 to 21 lines and 906 km.
- Transport
- Growth over time
- Networks
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Information & keynote
Isometric Picture Book
Seventy-Two Seats
Travellers board an isometric plane, and the order shows why one way is nearly twice as fast.
- Everyday rules
- Queues
- Comparisons
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Information & keynote
Circuit Board
Seven Milliseconds
Rivers become copper traces as current runs 2,080 km from a dam to a phone charger.
- Energy
- Supply chains
- Devices
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Information & keynote
Isometric 2.5D
Isopolis: Let the City Grow
A miniature world in 30° isometric view: small cities, office cutaways and server rooms, all at one scale with no vanishing point. Dense with information, still cute.
- Tech explainers
- Feature demos
- Architecture diagrams
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Information & keynote
Sticker Explainer
How Many Elements Hide in a Phone?
Photos cut out with a thick white outline sit like stickers among flat icons and charts on a huge canvas, while the camera pans and zooms from point to point.
- Science explainers
- Finance
- Company explainers
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Information & keynote
Aurora & Glassmorphism
Aurora: Think in Light
Large blurred colour blobs drift underneath while frosted glass cards float on top. Slow, translucent and premium.
- Tech brand films
- Product launches
- Keynotes
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Cartoon & anime
1930s Rubber Hose Cartoon
Coffee Cup Chase
A coffee cup chases a runaway sugar cube around the kitchen, drawn like a 1930s cartoon.
- Food & drink
- Retro ads
- Kids
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Cartoon & anime
80s Cel Anime
City Lights, 1987
A courier girl rides through a rain-soaked neon city to deliver a tape before the dawn launch.
- Music videos
- Game trailers
- Nostalgia
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Cartoon & anime
Sci-Fi Sitcom Toon
Coffee Run
A jaded genius opens a portal just to buy coffee and tumbles through ever-stranger universes.
- Comedy
- Tech brands
- Social shorts
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Cartoon & anime
Mid-century Cartoon
Meet Pip
A robot vacuum set up in three steps, told like a 1950s classroom film.
- Set-up guides
- Help centres
- How-to
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Games
16-bit Pixel RPG
The Last Save Point
At the final boss door a hero saves the game, and the save screen replays the whole journey.
- Game trailers
- Recaps
- Nostalgia
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Games
HD-2D
The Lampbearer
The lighthouse goes dark; a girl carries the last flame through a night forest and up the storm cliffs.
- Game trailers
- Fantasy
- Story films
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Games
Microgame Frenzy
Five-Second Astronaut
A clumsy cadet survives a five-second boot camp, faster and faster, until the boss: landing home.
- Game trailers
- Onboarding
- Social shorts
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Games
Cyberpunk HUD
Kestrel-9: Target Acquired
A sci-fi head-up display: cyan and orange neon wireframes, target-lock boxes, radar sweeps and streams of tiny data.
- Gadget reviews
- Game edits
- Tech demos
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Games
Pixel Art
Pixel Quest
Big pixels, a limited palette and low-frame-rate sprite animation, straight out of a retro game.
- Gaming
- 8-bit music videos
- Nostalgia campaigns
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Cinema & eras
1920s Silent Film
The Runaway Loaf
A baker's boy chases a runaway loaf downhill, then breaks it in half for a hungry girl.
- Comedy
- Retro brands
- Silent storytelling
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Cinema & eras
Liminal Found Footage
Night Shift Orientation
A new night-shift hire films their first night in an endless yellow office, following the rules on the wall.
- Horror
- Mystery & ARG
- Game teasers
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Cinema & eras
80s Synthwave
Neon Drive: Midnight 1986
Neon grids, sunset gradients and chrome type, finished with VHS scanlines, colour shift and tape noise.
- Music videos
- Fashion films
- Retro campaigns
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Materials & 3D
Brick Toy
Rocket from Spare Parts
A brick astronaut builds a rocket from spare parts and flies to a brick moon.
- Toys & kids
- Product builds
- Space
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Materials & 3D
Paper Pop-up Book
Pip's Paper Adventure
A pop-up book opens on a desk; a sprite named Pip adventures through paper worlds and jumps out into ours.
- Children's books
- Game trailers
- Story films
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Materials & 3D
Tilt-Shift Miniature
Toy Town Rush Hour
Morning rush hour in a town that looks like a model: traffic, trains and tiny people.
- City promos
- Real estate
- Transport
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Materials & 3D
Low-poly Isometric Island
The Island That Grew
An island and its village grow tile by tile from an empty sea, each tile a note, into a starry night.
- Game trailers
- World building
- Calm content
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Materials & 3D
Glass Product Render
Aura: Hear the Light
Unboxing and close-ups of Aura, fictional glass earbuds, in strip-light sweeps and caustics.
- Product launches
- Consumer tech
- Beauty
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Materials & 3D
Memphis Diorama
Four Seasons in Pomelo Town
One river bend, four seasons, one take; each turns when the big tree squats and springs back.
- Web heroes
- Ambient loops
- Seasons
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Materials & 3D
Desktop Flythrough
Before the Ding
A cat photo hops across app cards on a sunlit desk, from one phone to a friend's.
- App explainers
- Workflows
- Products
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Materials & 3D
3D Render
Soft Landing
Solid, tactile 3D in soft rubber, glass, metal and cloth, with arrays of repeated objects and physics that feel real.
- Product films
- Brand idents
- Drinks & tech
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Materials & 3D
Liquid Motion
Drop: It All Starts with a Drop
Shapes flow, stretch, drip and merge like liquid: a transition is a splash of paint across the screen, and a logo gathers itself from a single drop.
- Music videos
- Food & drink ads
- Transitions
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