What if none of the thirteen fits?

Describe what you want in your own words. The style field is free text, and a custom description is composed into scene prompts exactly the way a preset is.

What is a visual motif?

One recurring visual idea — a colour, an object, a kind of framing — chosen when the script is written and then required in every scene. It is a large part of why the finished video reads as one piece.

Does the style affect the price?

No. Style is part of the prompt, so it costs nothing extra. Price depends on which engines you pick, your resolution and how long the video is.

Visual styles

Thirteen visual styles, or describe your own

Scenes AI gives you thirteen visual styles to pick from — cinematic, anime, film noir, cyberpunk, stop motion and eight more — and whichever you choose is applied to every scene rather than to individual images. If none of them is the look you want, describe your own and it is treated the same way. A recurring visual motif then keeps the whole thing feeling like one piece rather than a set of nice stills.

The thirteen styles

Pick one and it is applied consistently across every scene in the video.

Cinematic — dramatic lighting, shallow depth of field, a graded film look.
Photoreal — as close to real-world footage as the engines get.
Anime — cel-shaded 2D animation.
Watercolor — visible brushwork and paper texture.
3D — CGI rendering with volumetric light.
Vintage — analog grain, period broadcast artefacts.
Minimal — flat design, limited palette, clean negative space.
Comic — bold inks, panel-book colour.
Cyberpunk — neon, rain, chrome and holographic interfaces.
Film noir — hard shadows, high contrast, monochrome mood.
Dreamy — soft ethereal light and surreal, symbolic imagery.
Retro-future — how the past imagined tomorrow.
Stop motion — tactile, handcrafted, frame-by-frame physicality.

Or write your own

The style field is free text. If none of the thirteen is what you want, describe the look you are after and it is composed into every scene prompt exactly the way a preset would be. There is no penalty for going off-list.

The visual motif

When the script is written, one recurring visual idea is chosen and recorded — a colour that keeps returning, an object that reappears, a kind of framing. Every scene prompt is then required to include it, and the reviewer checks that it did. It is a small thing that does a lot of work: it is often what makes a set of generated scenes read as one deliberate video rather than twenty separate images in a shared style.

Shot grammar keeps it coherent

Style is not only palette. A dozen scenes shot identically look like a slideshow no matter how good each one is.

Shot scale varies rather than repeating — no three consecutive scenes at the same distance.
Energy alternates instead of running flat.
Scene durations vary, with at least three distinct lengths across a video.
Colour temperature stays consistent unless there is a reason for it to change.
The 180-degree rule is respected, so the geography of a scene does not flip.

FAQ

Visual styles questions

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The style applies to the whole video, which is what keeps it coherent. If you want a different look you can change it and regenerate, or start a new episode with different settings.