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title: "Film styles"
description: "Lesson 9.4 of Creator Terminal's lesson films (Agents and explainers): Choose a film's style, and see one director make an explainer in two different looks."
canonical: "https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/film-styles/"
last_updated: 2026-10-28
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# Film styles

> Lesson 9.4 of Creator Terminal's lesson films (Agents and explainers): Choose a film's style, and see one director make an explainer in two different looks.

- The film (1:54): https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/media/9.4-film-styles/ef86f6387584/9.4-film-styles.mp4
- Vertical cut: https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/media/9.4-film-styles/0955e5ba3aa0/9.4-film-styles-vertical.mp4
- Captions: https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/media/9.4-film-styles/ce9e004cff8e/9.4-film-styles.vtt
- The page: https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/film-styles/

## In this lesson

### Find the styles (0:08)

Here's Creator Terminal. Let's set a film's look before it's made. Press Control-O for Agents Mode, then Control-N for a new idea. Press Control-T twice to choose a film, directed. Under it is the Style list.

### Pick a feeling (0:24)

Bright Science is bold, saturated flat vectors with labels. Click it, and a strip shows the look. For something gentler, click Pastel Friends: matte pastel stages, and soft, friendly characters.

### One director, two looks (0:38)

Here are two films the same director made. Click the flamingo film, in Bright Science: bold and labelled. Point at it to play. Now click the bee film, in Pastel Friends: soft and gentle. Point at that one too. The same kind of explainer, in two looks.

### A style remembers (0:55)

And a style remembers. The director drew a bee, a flower and a honeycomb for this film, and kept them with the style. The next film in Pastel Friends can use the same characters.

### How Bees Make Honey (1:07)

And here's the honey film, start to finish, in Pastel Friends, with its own voice and music.