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title: Video visual styles
description: Choose how your video looks.
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A visual style sets how a [Video or short](/videos) looks and guides its generated script; uploaded scripts keep their exact wording. [Voiceovers](/voiceovers) have no style, and [choose a video product](/choosing-a-video-product) compares all three.

## Choose a style

Pick a card in the style rail below the prompt. Hover a card to see its description and, for most styles, a sample clip. A film badge marks styles that generate video clips. Jellypod chooses the art direction (palette, composition, treatment) from your topic and tone. The style is fixed once generation starts, so create a new video or short to try another. The style the composer starts on is covered in [starting values](/video-creation-settings#starting-values).

## Style catalog

The Brand Kit column shows how the style uses a [Brand Kit](/brand-kits): Full uses the whole palette, Accent uses only the accent color, and None keeps the style's own colors.

| Style | Look | Brand Kit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Almanac | Hand-drawn paper cutouts on aged parchment with documentary warmth. | Accent |
| Archival | History through authentic photographs, documents, and period-aware reconstructions. | None |
| Atomic Age | Flat mid-century gouache scenes with jet-age optimism and bold geometry. | Accent |
| Blueprint | Technical line drawings on a blue grid. | None |
| Chalkboard | White chalk drawings on a dark canvas. | None |
| Cinematic | Photographic storytelling with dramatic light and deliberate cinematic composition. | None |
| Claymation | Handcrafted plasticine puppets in warm miniature practical sets. | Accent |
| Code Rush | Fast developer explainers: cut-out photos, real logos, bold labels, and code that types itself. | None |
| Crayon | Deliberately clumsy child-drawn crayon pictures on pure white. | Accent |
| Documentary | Real photos and footage with natural photographic reconstructions. | None |
| Flat | Warm flat picture-book scenes built from bold rounded geometry. | None |
| Gouache | Soft painted scenes with chunky brushwork, cool blues, and warm light. | Accent |
| Paper Mache | Tactile editorial paper mache with layered analog texture. | Full |
| Pixel Art | Classic 8-bit adventures with chunky sprites and flat side-on scenes. | Accent |
| Retro Comics | Punchy 1980s newsstand panels with bold ink and halftone color. | None |
| Sketch | Fine pen-and-pencil story sketches with restrained, muted color. | Accent |
| Stickman | Deadpan stickman cartoons with bold ink and muted color. | Full |
| Tier List | Researched rankings, real imagery, and a tier board that builds with each verdict. | None |
| Toy Bricks | Cinematic toy-brick dioramas with polished stop-motion energy. | Accent |
| Watercolor | Hand-drawn ink illustrations with loose watercolor fills. | Full |
| Whiteboard Explainer | Dry-erase marker drawings on a clean white whiteboard. | None |

Whiteboard Explainer, Blueprint, Chalkboard, Crayon, and Sketch draw each visual on their own canvas. In the [video editor](/video-editor#edit-visuals), those visuals have no Crop option and no zoom effect.

## Realistic styles

Documentary, Cinematic, Archival, and Tier List use real media and also shape the story structure, tone, visual sequence and optional background score. Documentary gives a clear observational explanation, and Cinematic builds a factual story toward a visual payoff. Archival follows historical context and surviving evidence, showing sourced photographs and documents uncropped and still while footage keeps its original motion.

Documentary looks for verified public-domain and CC0 photos and footage on Wikimedia Commons, prioritizing named subjects. These automatic picks need no on-screen credit and cost no image or clip credits. When nothing suitable exists, Jellypod generates a photographic reconstruction, charged normally. If you manually choose media that requires attribution, a small credit appears at the bottom left of the video.

Visual sources in creation settings offers Mixed (real media, with generated fallback), Real media only and Generated only. Real media only leaves a visual unfilled when nothing suitable exists and never generates a replacement, so choose one yourself in the editor.

Visual treatment defaults to Auto, which picks one consistent finish for the video, possibly no filter. In settings, turn it off or choose Cinematic, 35mm film, Vintage camera, VHS, or Black & white, and adjust its intensity. Treatment applies to images and footage in the new video only, without changing the original files, captions, or attribution.

## Code Rush

Use Code Rush for programming topics: a framework, a language, a tool, or its history.

Code Rush cuts hard to a new visual at every clause, at least 1.5 seconds each, whatever your [visual density](/video-creation-settings#visual-density). A screen can stack several visuals, such as a person cut out in front of the code they wrote. It never generates video clips.

Most shots are cut-out stickers on a dark canvas with a white die-cut border. Jellypod looks for a real photo of each named person and the official logo of each named product, generates an image when nothing fits, removes the background, and adds a yellow name label unless the image already shows the name. A real person is drawn only from a real photo of them; without one, the shot shows their project or name instead of a face. Automatic picks can include media that needs attribution, credited on screen.

The other shots are drawn, not generated, and cost no image credits: code that changes step by step, a terminal typing real commands, diagrams that build with the narration, highlighted excerpts, a timeline of years, stamps, speech bubbles, headlines and animated text. When code changes, removed parts fade out, kept parts slide into place and new parts fade in, each change landing as the narration mentions it. To change drawn code, commands or words, ask the AI Assistant in the editor.

Visual sources and Visual treatment, described under [realistic styles](#realistic-styles), also apply to Code Rush.

## Tier List

Choose Tier List and describe what to rank and by which criteria, for example "Compare space telescopes by scientific impact for curious beginners." Put any item names or ranking preferences in the same brief. Jellypod picks the items, tiers, and reveal order.

The video opens with a hook and the empty S/A/B/C/D board, then discusses each item in a suspenseful order and reveals its tier at the spoken verdict. It ends with the completed board, the S tier pick, the biggest surprise, and an invitation to disagree.

A Tier List ranks three to eight items: five by default, or three for briefs under one minute. Each item gets the photo that most clearly identifies it in a small square, and supporting imagery uses the same sourcing as Documentary. The layout adapts to portrait and landscape, and captions start off.

In the [video editor](/video-editor), each board is a template visual you can replace, trim, reorder or remove. Ask the AI Assistant to move an item to another tier or swap its photo for an existing visual; it updates every board reveal, and the spoken verdict for ranking changes, with no image-generation charge. Manual narration edits do not rewrite rankings. Uploaded scripts keep their wording and get the style's photographic imagery, without ranked board reveals.