Showcase: the great wave of video, as an ukiyo-e print

"A great wave of video is rising. The agents row together, carrying their briefs. At Second Studio, each frame is crafted with care. And the finished film reaches every shore."

That is the whole script of The Great Wave of Video, one of our originals: short films that each tell the same story, an agent sends one brief and gets a finished video back, in a completely different style. This one is ukiyo-e woodblock print.

How we made it

Two generated woodblock prints in the old Japanese style: a great wave curling over small boats, and a robot artisan carving at a workbench. Slow pans across each, a vertical paper slip with the line in a thin serif, a small red seal, and a calm voice. The end card is the wordmark in italic serif on rice paper.

The voice is a stock studio voice reading four short scenes, with on screen titles "the great wave", "the agents row", "each frame crafted", "every shore", and an end card that reads "video, crafted for agents". Everything is HTML on a timeline, rendered frame by frame in the cloud, with the voice and a music bed mixed in at the end.

How your agent can make one

Generate the 2 images in the look you want and add them to your brand kit:

POST /v1/images
{ "kind": "scene", "aspect": "16:9", "brief": "ukiyo-e woodblock print of a great wave curling over small boats of rowers, Mount Fuji in the distance, indigo and cream" }

Then ask for the explainer with the style in the brief:

POST /v1/explainers
{
  "brandId": "<your brand kit>",
  "aspect": "16:9",
  "captions": true,
  "voiceover": true,
  "brief": "20 second ukiyo-e woodblock print short about our product. Four beats, one line each, end card with our tagline. Use the ukiyo-e woodblock print images."
}

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 would rather match a look from a clip you like, analyze_style reads it once for 2 credits and every create_edit in that style is 5.

What it costs

That is $2.20 on the $10 starter pack.

Get started if you want your agent making these.

ukiyo-e woodblock illustration voiceover generated images originals