Make a Watercolor Explainer Video

Build a short explainer where each moving part helps teach the idea.

What this helps you do

Storyboard a short explanation, create matching stills with ChatGPT Images 2.5, and animate them in HyperFrames.

Before you start

Choose a topic you understand or have a reliable source for. Save a Pinterest style reference for direction, then make original artwork. You need access to ChatGPT Images 2.5, Claude Code, and HyperFrames.

Terms to know

A storyboard is a shot-by-shot plan. An asset is a still image or layer used in the video. A layer is a separate object you can move independently.

Step-by-step

1. Find a watercolor reference on Pinterest. Note the paper texture, palette, and brush style. Do not copy an artist’s image.
2. Storyboard the explanation in four shots. For a rainbow: rainy sky, close-up raindrop, light bending and reflecting, color fan.
3. Use voice mode to explain your idea aloud or paste a source article. Have ChatGPT turn it into short shot descriptions and check the facts.
4. Use ChatGPT Images 2.5 to create matching stills. Ask for separate sky, drop, light, and color elements.
5. Bring the images into HyperFrames inside Claude Code. Animate only the parts that teach the sequence.
6. Render a preview and compare it with the storyboard and source facts. Revise confusing movement before adding captions.

Copy this

Paste this in the tool named above. Replace each bracketed detail with your own information.

Create original watercolor assets for a four-shot vertical explainer about how a rainbow forms. Use a consistent hand-painted paper texture and palette. Shots: (1) rainy sky, (2) one transparent raindrop close-up, (3) sunlight entering and reflecting inside the drop, (4) colors spreading toward the viewer. Deliver the sky, drop, light ray, and colors as separate assets so I can animate them independently. No text in the images.

Things to know

A still-image model gives you art assets, not a finished accurate science lesson. Use a reliable explanation of refraction, reflection, and dispersion before animating. HyperFrames assembles and renders the motion.

If something goes wrong

If the style shifts between shots, keep the same palette and reference wording. If the motion looks decorative, remove movements that do not clarify the explanation.

Final check

A pass is a preview where a viewer can follow the concept with the sound off.