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AI animation styles: one story, any look

Every style on this page is a preset in the Insaga studio. You pick it before the first frame is drawn, and every shot, character sheet and location of your story follows it. To compare them fairly, each style below shows the same scene: a woman in a red coat on a rainy rooftop.

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23 core styles, one heroine

Open a style to see full scenes, what videos it suits, how to get the look in the studio and how it differs from its neighbours.

  • A stick-figure girl in a red coat on a rainy rooftop, orange sky and black city silhouettes behindStickman

    Stick figures with rubbery limbs and huge reactions, for storytime, psychology and comedy explainers.

  • A brown-haired girl in a coral coat looks back on a wet rooftop, pastel city lights reflected below2D Animation

    Clean outlines, soft cel shading and painted backgrounds, for fairy tales, adventures and kids' series.

  • A dark-haired woman in a red trench coat glances back on a rainy rooftop, inked in bright comic-book colourClassic Comics

    Bold ink, flat bright colour and heroic poses for action stories and a superhero of your own.

  • A woman in a long coat and scarf turns on a rainy rooftop, drawn in clean grey manga tonesManga

    Black-and-white manga panels with screentone, for drama, romance and samurai stories told in voiceover.

  • A dark-haired girl in a red coat and white gloves on a rooftop under a golden stormy skyClassic Cartoon

    Golden-age cartoon look: squash and stretch, white gloves and painted backdrops, for slapstick and fables.

  • A flat vector girl in a red coat walks in the rain, purple skyscrapers and glowing street lamps behind herKurzgesagt Style

    Flat shapes, no outlines, glowing color: the look of science explainers about space, biology and scale.

  • A plasticine girl in a red coat and brown hat stands on a wet miniature rooftop at sunsetClaymation

    Plasticine characters with fingerprints on miniature sets, for cozy tales, holiday stories and dark fables.

  • The heroine in a red trench coat on a rainy rooftop, drawn in ink with halftone clouds and neon signs2.5D Spider-Verse

    Comic-book ink over cinematic volume and neon color, for action, superhero and cyberpunk stories.

  • The heroine in a red trench coat on a rainy rooftop at dusk, drawn with dark wavering outlinesRotoscopy

    Painted-over-reality look with living outlines for conversations, dreams, memories and monologues.

  • A woman in a coat of torn red fabric, pinned over a sepia rainy city with pink paint splashesCollage Animation

    Torn paper, old photos, newspaper clippings and tape, for history essays, travel stories and investigations.

  • A pie-eyed cartoon girl in a red coat with an umbrella and big shoes on a rainy amber rooftopModern Rubber Hose

    1930s cartoon anatomy with clean modern lines: pie-cut eyes, noodle limbs, white gloves, vintage color.

  • A young woman in a wet dark-red trench coat looks back from a rainy rooftop above city lightsCinematic

    Film lighting and color grading for short films, trailers and dramatic retellings.

  • A young woman in a red wool coat looks back on a wet rooftop at dusk, lit city windows behindRealism

    Photographic detail and natural light for true stories, life stories and documentary-style narration.

  • The heroine in a fedora and a coat turned black, on a rainy rooftop with art deco towers behindNoir

    Black-and-white film noir for detective stories, true crime and night-city mysteries.

  • The heroine in a red coat on a wet rooftop, the sunset sky and city lights melting into the paperWatercolor

    Soft transparent washes for bedtime stories, poems, travel diaries and calm narration.

  • A woman in a red coat on a rainy tiled rooftop, a neon city behind her, drawn in pixelsPixel Art

    16-bit pixels, dithering and a curated palette, for game lore, retro sci-fi and stories told like an RPG.

  • A woman in a long dark coat looks back on a wet rooftop, drawn in pencil above a hazy citySketch

    Graphite pencil with cross-hatching and visible construction lines, for biographies, essays and storyboards.

  • The heroine in a red coat on a rooftop, sky and city lights laid on in thick orange strokesOil Painting

    Thick impasto and golden light for myths, legends, epic history and the stories behind paintings.

  • A woman in a torn red coat stands on a wet rooftop against an ochre sky, framed by ink splatterDirty Comics

    Gritty ink, heavy shadow and neon in the rain, for crime, horror and dark folk tales told to adults.

  • A woman in a red coat on a rooftop under a purple and yellow sky, printed in halftone dotsRetro Comics

    1950s comic pages with halftone dots and yellowed paper, for pulp adventure and mid-century history.

  • A small girl with dot eyes and a red coat on a pastel rooftop, rain falling in thin strokesQuirky Minimalist

    Big heads, dot eyes and wobbly lines in muted pastels, for calm essays, reflections and dry humor.

  • The heroine as a warty hag with a lolling green tongue in a torn red coat among trash and fliesGross-out Animation

    Bulging eyes, drool, warts and neon slime: grotesque cartoon comedy for adults, horror spoofs and gross facts.

  • A woman in a red coat grimaces on a rooftop under a pink and yellow sky, acid-coloured towers behindUnderground Comic

    Grotesque caricature, garish colour and cross-hatched ink, for satire, absurd stories and music history.

How to choose a style for your video

Start with who carries the video. If it is a narrator explaining an idea, pick a style that stays out of the way of the voice: Stickman, Kurzgesagt Style or Quirky Minimalist. Viewers of a 15-minute explainer look at the picture for the idea, not for the brushwork.

If the video is a story with a cast, you need faces that read at a glance and hold up in close-ups: 2D Animation, Classic Cartoon, Classic Comics or Manga. For drama, true crime and history retold as film, go for Cinematic, Realism or Noir.

Painted and hand-made looks, such as Watercolor, Oil Painting, Sketch, Claymation and Collage Animation, give a channel a signature that is hard to mistake for anyone else's. They suit fairy tales, poems, biographies and calm narration better than fast action.

Not sure? Run the first scene of your script in two styles. Frames cost a credit each, so a comparison costs a few credits, not an evening.

What a style changes, and what it keeps

Changes: line, colour and light
Outline weight, palette, shading, texture and how the light falls. Noir drops colour entirely; pixel art turns everything into a grid; watercolor lets colours bleed.
Changes: proportions and faces
Stickman reduces a person to a circle and lines; rubber hose makes limbs bendy; realism keeps anatomy as a camera would see it.
Keeps: the story and the cast
Scenes, characters, locations and their order come from your script. The characters are designed once, as reference sheets, and stay the same in every frame of that style.
Keeps: voice and edit
Voiceover, subtitles, music and the timeline work the same in every style, so a channel can switch looks between videos without changing how it works.

More than these 23

The studio has 100+ styles in total, including anime looks, and this page shows the 23 core ones with examples. From the Director plan up you can also build your own style from reference images: upload a few pictures in the look you want, and every frame of the story follows it.

Questions about styles

Are the examples on this page made in Insaga?

Yes. The woman in the red coat is the studio's own preview of each style, one scene drawn with every preset. The wide and vertical frames on each style page were made with the same presets, and the extra frames come from stories made in Insaga.

Can I change the style after the frames are drawn?

The style is chosen before generation and applies to the whole story. To see the same script in another look, generate it again with a different style; you can also redraw any single frame.

Do all characters stay the same within one style?

Yes. In the Characters mode every character gets a reference sheet before the scenes are drawn, and each frame is drawn from those sheets, so faces and outfits hold from the first scene to the last.

Can I get the style of a famous show or studio?

The presets are made in the spirit of well-known looks, such as flat science explainers or clay stop-motion, but Insaga is not affiliated with those studios and does not draw their characters. Invent your own heroes; the style carries the mood.

Which style is best for YouTube?

There is no single answer: explainers do well in stickman or flat vector, story channels in 2D, comics or manga, history and true crime in cinematic, noir or oil painting. The AI animation generator page matches styles to types of videos.

How do I try the styles for free?

Sign up and you get 100 free credits, no card needed. One frame costs one credit, so you can draw a scene in several styles and compare them before you pick one for the whole story.

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