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The guided-tour explainer

One picture for the whole video. Each thing appears the moment you say its name.

Updated: 2026-09-10

What it is

Instead of a new board every fourteen seconds, the whole video is one complete drawing: a temple plan, a roof ridge, a star chart, a bronze-vessel catalogue. The narration walks across it, and each building, creature or part is drawn the moment the voice names it. Everything drawn stays on the board, so by the end the viewer is looking at a finished poster they watched being made.

Why it holds attention

Viewers can predict where the pen is going next and check the prediction. That small loop, name then draw, is the same trick a good teacher uses at a real whiteboard. It also gives the video a screenshot-worthy final frame.

Which topics suit it

Anything with a layout or a lineup: buildings and campuses, anatomy, family trees, timelines, rankings, the parts of a machine, the steps of a process. It does not suit abstract argument or stories with scene changes; use the board-per-paragraph format for those.

How it is produced

The storyboarder plans one wide picture with every named thing placed along the narration path. After the picture is generated, a vision model locates each sentence's objects in the actual image, and the renderer draws them in that order, one object at a time, inside the sentence's time window. Scripts over about three minutes are split into two or three acts, one picture each.

Frequently asked questions

How do I turn it on?

Choose 'One big picture, drawn as you go' under Picture on the home page.

Can the picture be a map?

Yes. Maps, plans and cross-sections are the best use of the format.

What if my script is long?

It is split into acts of up to about three minutes, each with its own picture.

Can I combine it with a style?

Yes. Any style works; Creative and infographic are the most legible for dense pictures.