Showcase: opening night, in Art Deco
A 20 second 1920s Art Deco premiere with gold sunbursts, an emerald curtain reveal and a marquee title plate, how I made it and how your agent can make one.
Posts by Peter Sullivan
Founder of Faro.io Corp, the company that builds Second Studio and the Spark iMessage app. Full bio.
Launch videos from your release notes
A walkthrough of turning a release note into a recorded, narrated launch video with Second Studio, with the exact calls and the credit cost.
Showcase: how an agent judges its own takes
A 34 second dark product explainer: tests passing, a mosaic of renders, two takes side by side, a score on a dotted sphere and a chart, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: an animated bar and line chart in 7 seconds
How we made an animated chart that builds bar by bar with a trend line, and how your agent can turn its own numbers into a short chart video.
Showcase: an ASCII art logo loop
A 15 second silent loop of ASCII fish swimming around a wordmark, how we made it in code and how your agent can make a branded loop.
Showcase: from billboard to hoodie, a vertical merch drop
A 10 second vertical ad where a city billboard announces a hoodie and the hoodie slides up into your hands, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a brief, drawn as an engineering blueprint
A 20 second technical drawing short with self drawing lines, dimension callouts and a title block, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: agents make their own videos, breaking news
A 19 second cable news parody with breaking bars, a scrolling ticker and a live clock over an anchor desk, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a toy brick film lot that builds itself
An 18 second square toy brick diorama: the set assembles brick by brick, the camera pushes in on the crew and the van, then pulls out, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: this video is a web page, brutalist style
A 16 second brutalist web design short with raw blue links, hard shadows, a scrolling marquee and flat yellow and green blocks, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a cartoon agent's day at the desk
A 28 second flat cartoon story where a clapperboard robot starts a session, takes notes and ships a video, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: CCTV footage with a HUD and a flagged subject
A 10 second security camera look with a teal grade, scanlines, a lock on box and an info panel, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: in a world where every agent needs video
A 18 second epic movie trailer parody with a deep voice, letterboxed title cards and a lone figure under a glowing play button, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a cinematic short with a voxel hero
A 16 second cinematic short with a dark dolly, glowing monitor words and a sunlit voxel character, how we made it from stills and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: the tiniest film studio, in claymation
An 18 second claymation style short with a plasticine robot, stepped 12 fps motion and a voiceover, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: code that types itself, for developer launches
A 9 second code editor animation that types out a real Second Studio API call, how we made it and how your agent can make developer facing videos.
Showcase: Captain Render vs the edit queue, as a comic book
An 18 second comic book short with halftone panels, onomatopoeia bursts and caption boxes, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: the recipe for a video, as a cooking show
A 20 second TV cooking show short with recipe cards, ingredient callouts and a ding at the end, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a dark launch trailer
A 23 second dark launch trailer with a chat notification, a pixel resolve title, a floating 3D screen, an editor UI and a halftone sphere, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a quiet documentary with chapter cards
A 21 second observational documentary short with slow push ins, chapter cards and lower thirds, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a close up encyclopedia scroll with a highlighted quote
A 9 second tilted, defocused encyclopedia article that racks into focus and scrolls to a highlighted quote, and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a feature launch as a collage
A 24 second feature launch for auto captions: skater b-roll, a phone with ransom note letters, an MCP comment box and a template grid, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a felt mascot party, stop motion style
A 30 second felt and plush short: a lonely mascot on a bench, a crowd under spotlights, coffee in a cafe and a stitched end card, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: the case of the missing edit, in film noir
A 19 second black and white detective short with blind shadows, rain and typewriter title cards, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a generative art manifesto
A 27 second generative art short with a noise square, a pixel field, tile bursts, a pixel sprite and a galaxy end card, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a giant keyboard on a tabletop
An 8 second vertical top down shot of a table where a see through keyboard types a prompt and photos and a phone slide in with the result, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a homepage hero as a film
A 16 second website hero film where the headline restyles itself in four looks before landing on the call to action, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: one horse in eight styles, ultra wide
A 9 second 2560 by 720 piece with a galloping horse shown in side by side panels that cycle through eight looks, and how your agent can make style studies.
Showcase: but wait, there's more, a 90s infomercial
A 22 second 1990s TV infomercial parody with a frustrated before shot, an excited host, starbursts and a call to action, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a tour of Render Town, an isometric diorama
A 17 second pastel isometric diorama with tour callout pins and smooth camera moves, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: it is just HTML, a developer explainer in 20 seconds
A 20 second developer explainer with kinetic type, a hand annotated code editor, a neon glow and a particle word, and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: introducing Second Studio, keynote style
A 22 second product keynote parody with a deadpan narrator, glowing product shots, stat widgets and a meadow aerial, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: kinetic captions that hit on every word
A 6 second kinetic type sequence where each word slams in on its own beat, how we made it and how to get word timed captions from the API.
Showcase: a 13 second kinetic type opener
A 13 second kinetic typography piece where words swing in, a shape morphs and the wordmark scrolls, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a kinetic typography reel in six looks
A 27 second type reel: a typed HUD line, glitch text, a motion smear, chrome DEPTH over a synthwave sun and an editorial counter, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: making a launch video, without and with an agent
A 40 second split story: a launch video the old way with storyboards and a 4 hour export, then an agent doing it over MCP, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a punchy lime launch with kinetic caps
A 14 second lime on black launch with neon outlines, a keyframe graph, agent panels and word timed caps, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a live coding editor that changes with the beat
A 30 second square live coding piece where an API script is typed in an editor, the theme shifts on the beat, and it ends on an ASCII SHIP IT, and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a low poly sitcom two hander
A 19 second vertical sitcom scene between a tired developer and a cheerful clapperboard robot, with top captions and a voiceover, and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a manga fight over the last render slot
A 17 second black and white manga sequence with sliding panels, speech balloons, a BAM splash and a sepia to be continued card, and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a Halloween party with two mascots
A 30 second purple cartoon Halloween short with glowing eyes, speech bubbles, a BOO burst, a disco floor and confetti, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a 6 second logo sting on a moving gradient
How we made a soft mesh gradient logo sting for Second Studio, and how your agent can make an intro or outro card in your own brand colors.
Showcase: agents in the wild, a nature documentary
A 21 second wildlife documentary parody with hushed narration over savanna and macro shots and field guide labels, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a lock screen notification cascade, made for vertical
A 9 second vertical video where phone notifications stack up as an agent makes a video, how we made it and how your agent can make vertical UI stories.
Showcase: build a pixel platformer in four steps
An 18 second tutorial with a code panel beside a live pixel art game: draw the world, add a player, add danger, keep score, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: an awards night in one continuous camera move
A 32 second dark gold awards show web UI shot as a single take, with mascots, race bars, a nominee grid and an envelope countdown, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: Render Rats, a pixel sitcom opener
A 19 second pixel art sitcom title sequence with four baby developers and a launch video job, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: robots make films, a risograph zine
A 17 second risograph print short with two ink colors, grain, misregistered type and a hand reaching for film, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a screen tutorial with a step sidebar and a mascot host
A 22 second product tutorial: UI screens for each step, a sidebar that tracks progress, captions and a mascot that talks, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a shard logo reveal
A 20 second logo reveal where hundreds of glowing triangle shards fly in and converge into the Second Studio mark, and how your agent can make an intro.
Showcase: agents vs the edit queue, as a sports broadcast
A 21 second sports broadcast parody with a scorebug, live badge and slashing wipes over a floodlit stadium, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a square app walkthrough with a serif logo reveal
A 19 second square video of a cream app UI: a prompt typed, setup picks, a navy logo reveal and an export panel, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: five steps, five colors, one 9 second video
How we made a 9 second step by step title sequence with hard color cuts, and the brief and API call your agent can use to make one like it.
Showcase: storyboard first, a pastel product launch
A 21 second pastel launch with dark app windows, a storyboard grid, floating glass chips and a cursor mascot, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a storybook message that travels to mum
A 21 second vertical storybook in navy and cream where a message travels as light under the sea to a grandmother, and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: video, made by agents, in Swiss editorial type
A 16 second Swiss typography short with a strict grid, bold sans, red rules and one red block, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: render the future, in synthwave
A 16 second 80s synthwave short with a neon grid, chrome type and a striped sunset, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a talking head with words behind the speaker
A 20 second 4:5 social cut with a presenter, giant words behind him, karaoke captions and a full screen API card, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: the great wave of video, as an ukiyo-e print
A 16 second woodblock print short with a great wave, rowing agents, vertical title slips and a red seal, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: our own 26 second vertical explainer
How we made the vertical explainer for Second Studio itself, scene by scene, and the brief and calls your agent can use to make one for your product.
Showcase: a vertical presenter demo with words that cross out
A 27 second vertical demo with a presenter, a lower third, crossed out tool cards, karaoke captions and a giant 10 SECONDS slam, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a vertical five step tutorial on a 3D diorama
A 33 second vertical how-to with a 3D style diorama, numbered steps, karaoke captions and a voiceover, and how your agent can make tutorials like it.
Showcase: tape two, a VHS home movie
A 19 second camcorder style home movie with tracking noise, chroma bleed, a PLAY overlay and a timestamp, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a vintage newspaper front page push in
An 8 second vintage newspaper front page under a soft vignette that pushes in to a highlighted quote, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a small robot's story, as a watercolor storybook
An 18 second picture book short with painted pages, page turns and handwritten type, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: from your website to a launch video
A 32 second light product promo with a question headline, pricing cards, a create screen, a hook grid and a dark call to action, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a five second wordmark sting
A 5 second square sting where the letters tumble off and a coral brush swipes them back into place, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: video for the new millennium, in Y2K chrome
A 16 second Y2K chrome short with liquid chrome type, iridescent gradients, sparkles and bubbly pop up windows, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Showcase: a YouTube explainer edit
A 30 second YouTube style edit with a green screen counter, a calendar grid, word by word b-roll captions, glitch text and a chart, how we made it and how your agent can make one.
Why agents need a video studio, not a video model
A model can make a clip. A studio makes a video someone will finish watching. Here is the difference and why it matters for agents.
A homepage explainer for a SaaS product, from one brief
How to go from a five sentence brief and a brand kit to a narrated, captioned homepage explainer with Second Studio, step by step.
Five client variants from one reference video
An agency workflow for Second Studio. Analyze a reference the client loves once, then cut several variants from their raw footage for approval.
How we made our own explainer in one call
The explainer on our homepage was made by Second Studio from a single brief. Here is what happened between the request and the file.
Short product videos for an online store
How a store could use Second Studio to turn product photos and a few phone clips into vertical product videos, with costs per item.
Building an AI social media manager on Second Studio
The architecture I would use for an agent that plans, makes and drafts short videos every week, with a person approving every post.
Reference driven editing: show, do not describe
Describing an editing style in words is hard. Pointing at a video is easy. Here is how style matching turns a reference into a repeatable recipe.
A recurring mascot your agent can direct
How to create a consistent brand character once with Second Studio and reuse it across images, scenes and short videos, with quoted prices.
Turning help docs into short how to videos
A support team workflow for Second Studio. Record each help article's steps in the real app and render a captioned how to video that stays current.
Edit my clips like this one: a creator walkthrough
How a creator can hand Second Studio a reference video and a folder of footage and get a cut that matches its rhythm and captions.