Preset
Paper cutout
Construction paper characters with visible cut edges, layered flat sets, pivoting limbs and deadpan timing.
Shares the family guardrails: this direction follows the same rules as Animated cartoon.
- Best for
- Kids' content, mascots, and playful brand moments.
- Output
- Video
- Time
- 2 to 4 minutes
- Credits
- 22 to 66 credits est.
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About this preset
The paper cutout look is built from construction paper: characters with visible cut edges and paper grain, flat sets stacked in layers, and real drop shadows falling between those layers. The motion vocabulary is jointed; limbs pivot at pinned joints, props slide on their own layers, and the timing is deadpan, with pauses that let a simple gesture land. The palette is bright paper stock, kraft brown, sky blue, grass green and sunflower yellow, and the pacing is calm with a dry sense of humour. It suits explainers, education, indie brand work and stories that want to feel handmade without clay. Avoid copying the designs of any real cutout show; invent your own paper people and animals.
Use cases
- Explainers and education clips
- Indie brand and non profit stories
- Handmade looking social clips
- Story moments for young readers
Examples
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Kite chase in a windy meadow, paper cutout style with cut edges and layered shadows
A paper cutout animated scene. THE CHARACTERS: Juniper, a girl made of construction paper with a triangle dress, round cut paper hair and dot eyes, and Sprocket, her small orange paper fox with a zigzag tail. THE MOMENT: in a windy hillside meadow, Juniper flies a diamond paper kite; the kite dips, Sprocket leaps and catches the trailing string in his teeth, and the two slide to a stop and share a deadpan look. THE STYLE: flat construction paper characters with visible cut edges and paper grain, jointed limbs that pivot at pinned joints, layered flat sets with real drop shadows between the paper layers, hand cut clouds sliding on their own layer, deadpan timing. THE PALETTE: kraft brown, sky blue, grass green and sunflower yellow. Camera: flat frontal framing with a slow push in. Original designs, no lettering on the kite or signs, no logos, no titles or captions anywhere in frame. Sound: room tone plus paper rustle, gusting wind and the thrum of a kite string.
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Seedance 2.5
video- Credits per generation
- 65 credits per 5s clip
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