A narrated explainer in Hermoso is not one video render. It is a written script, a burst of pictures for each section — roughly one every second and a half — and narration cut together so that the motion is the edit rather than a slow fake zoom over a still. That structure is what makes a sixty-second explainer affordable, and it is also what makes visual consistency the hard problem: dozens of separately rendered frames have to look like one film.
The style catalog is the answer. Pick one and the pipeline renders a single style key image first, then locks every subsequent frame to it. An unrecognised style is refused by name rather than quietly replaced with the default.
Cinematic
Filmic editorial photography — the look this lane has always shipped.
See the style → IllustratedEditorial collage
Halftone photo cutouts, flat colour fields, hand-drawn marker accents — documentary energy.
See the style → IllustratedFlat 2D vector
Clean flat-vector animation look — bold outlines, solid fills, no shading.
See the style → IllustratedStickman cartoon
Hand-drawn stick figures on a plain field — the classic doodle explainer.
See the style → IllustratedWhiteboard doodle
Marker sketch on a whiteboard — diagrams, arrows, simple icons.
See the style → IllustratedInk & marker
Bold black brush-ink on off-white paper — high-contrast editorial monochrome.
See the style → IllustratedSilhouette minimalism
Black silhouettes on a white void — stark, contemplative, lots of space.
See the style → IllustratedPainted storybook
Hand-painted gouache — warm, soft, narrative picture-book art.
See the style → IllustratedPaper diorama
Layered cut-paper craft — soft shadows between stacked paper planes.
See the style → IllustratedIsometric vector
Clean isometric flat-vector systems — the tech / SaaS diagram look.
See the style → IllustratedClaymation
Stop-motion plasticine — thumbprints, matte clay, miniature sets.
See the style → IllustratedPixel art
Chunky 16-bit pixel scenes on a limited palette.
See the style → IllustratedWatercolor chronicle
Loose watercolour washes on cold-press paper — soft, historical, hand-painted.
See the style → IllustratedFluffy toy
Soft felted-plush characters and props — the warm, tactile look for kids topics.
See the style → IllustratedLow poly
Faceted low-polygon geometry with flat shading — clean, modern, abstract.
See the style → IllustratedStylised 3D
Chunky toy-like 3D with matte clay-render surfaces — playful, never photoreal.
See the style → IllustratedStudio 3D
Preschool toy 3D — chunky glossy characters with big cartoon eyes on a clean white sweep.
See the style → IllustratedMannequin reenactment
Clay-render mannequin reenactment — smooth featureless figures in solid role colors acting out history.
See the style →Style is not the same as channel
Orthogonal to the look is the channel type, which sets the pacing, the narration register and the story grammar. There are four: Explainer, History / documentary, Kids, Fairy tale & myth. Each supplies a default look — Explainer defaults to Editorial collage, History / documentary defaults to Editorial collage, Kids defaults to Studio 3D, Fairy tale & myth defaults to Painted storybook — but naming a style always wins. A history documentary and a children’s explainer rendered in the same style still differ in rhythm and in how the narration talks to you.
How a style is held across a whole film
A narrated explainer is not one render — it is dozens of frames, roughly one every second and a half, cut together so the motion is the edit rather than a fake zoom over a still. Holding one look across that many frames is the hard part, and the pipeline does it by rendering a single style key image first and locking every later frame to it, plus a continuity sheet that carries the recurring subjects.
The style is also separate from the channel — explainer, history, kids, or fairy tale — which sets the pacing, the narration register and the story grammar. A channel supplies a default look; naming a style always overrides it. An unrecognised style is refused by name rather than silently swapped for the default, because silently shipping the wrong picture under the right name is worse than an error.
The rest of the catalog
Explainers are one lane. The creative recipes index covers 110 ad formats, and native ad templates covers the 13 deterministic HTML formats.