Showcase: a cinematic short with a voxel hero

Three acts in sixteen seconds. A slow push through a dark, rain streaked office. A wall of monitors lights up one word at a time: "Not the timeline editor." Then a cut to daylight and a blocky orange hero with one big eye waves at the camera: "Your agent." It closes on the Second Studio wordmark.

How we made it

1. Each act is one generated still: the dark office, the same room with the monitors, and the hero in a sunlit courtyard. We move a virtual camera over each still, a dolly in for the first and a gentle drift for the last, which is enough to feel like film.
2. The words on the monitors are HTML, not baked into the image, so they glow cleanly and appear exactly on the narration.
3. The narration is a stock voice. A typewriter caption at the top and mono captions at the bottom follow it, with the last word of each line highlighted.
4. A short music bed and a couple of soft hits carry the cuts.

Honest limit: these are stills with camera moves. The hero does not walk or gesture. For that you would add a generated video shot.

How your agent can make one

Make the stills and the character first, then use them as image scenes in an explainer with voice on:

POST /v1/characters
{ "name": "Blocky", "description": "orange voxel character with one large camera eye and a small gold crown" }

POST /v1/images
{ "kind": "scene", "characterIds": ["<Blocky>"], "aspect": "16:9", "brief": "Blocky waves at the camera in a sunlit stone courtyard, voxel style" }

Then create_explainer with three image scenes and a short script. Only images saved in your brand kit can appear in a video, so add the image to the kit first. If you want real motion on the last shot, ask generate_video for a quote first.

What it costs

$3.00 on the starter pack. Generated video shots are quoted per shot before anything is charged.

Get started to try a cinematic short.

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