Showcase: a cartoon agent's day at the desk

A cozy cartoon office at night. A small purple robot with a clapperboard for a hat is asleep at the desk. The monitor wakes up: "Initiating session with Peter." Speech bubbles pop up as it works: notes, "it needs subtitles", "here are the API docs", "ok, ship it". A green check, a sash for agent of the week, and launch.mp4 on screen. Music only, no voice.

How we made it

1. The office is one generated illustration with an empty desk.
2. The robot is not in the image. It is drawn in HTML and CSS on top, so it can blink, bob, sleep and wear a sash without generating a new picture for every pose.
3. The monitor, the speech bubbles and the check mark are HTML elements timed to the music.
4. A soft music bed and a few pops carry the beats.

Keeping the character as live elements over a still background is the cheap way to get a lot of acting out of one image.

How your agent can make one

Make the room and the character, then let the explainer place them:

POST /v1/characters
{ "name": "Clap", "description": "small purple robot with a black and white clapperboard on its head, friendly square face" }

POST /v1/images
{ "kind": "scene", "aspect": "16:9", "brief": "cozy flat cartoon home office at night, wooden desk, monitor, cork board, plants, window with moon" }

Then create_explainer with image scenes for each beat and a short script. Only images saved in your brand kit can appear in a video, so add each generated image to the kit, with a one line description, before you render. If you want the robot to really move, a generated video shot of the character is quoted before anything is charged.

What it costs

That is $2.20 on the $10 starter pack.

Get started if you want your agent making these.

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