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Charcoal drawing animation style

Painterly · 16:9

Charcoal on rough paper: strokes built by a hand from gesture to tone, paper-tooth grain, smudged mid-tones, erased highlights, hard black accents, palm-sweep wipes with ghost marks, optional red chalk.

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8-second cut from a test film, sound off. Made by a fresh Claude Code with only this kit in an empty folder.

What you'd type

Make a 2-minute video about [your topic] in the reelstyles charcoal-sketch style. Show me the scene plan first.

Briefs we tested this kit with

  1. "The quiet hours" (30 s): night street lamp (erased glow), empty bench (hard black), rain streaks (gesture lines), caption "Nobody is awake." Red chalk: the lamp's flame.
  2. "What a ruin remembers" (40 s): three drawings of one stone arch from far, near, inside; palm wipes keep the arch ghost; last shot is a rough cut to the sky through the arch.
  3. "Slow tea" (20 s): a kettle, a cup, steam as erased paper against a smudged wall; captions in three short lines; camera pushes into the dark window.

In the kit

  • Style guide: palette, type, how things move and cut
  • Scene templates your agent builds from
  • A checklist your agent grades its own stills against before it renders
  • Render steps for 16:9, 1920 × 1080 at 30 fps

Your films are yours to publish and monetise. Licence and refund

Video formats it fits

Guide: How to make animated videos with Claude Code

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