Vox-Style Explainer Ad Skill for AI Agents | Advibly Skills

The whole thing

One prompt in. A finished film out.

Nothing below was edited by hand. This is what came back from a single line, for a real brand, with the narration and the score the skill wrote itself.

Make a Vox-style explainer for CrunchLabs. 16:9, you pick the angle.

Start creating Install the skill

Your brand, your claim, the same pipeline.

Just ask

Say the word, it runs.

The skill fires on natural requests like these. No commands to memorize.

“Make a Vox-style explainer for my product”“Paper / torn-paper collage animation”“Turn this claim into a motion collage”“Collage explainer ad”

The pipeline

What the skill does for you.

1
Write the beat map
The skill picks a narrative arc for the claim (problem-agitate-solve, how-it-works, myth-buster, and more) and drafts the full beat map: a hook that lands in under 3 seconds, two shots per beat, varied camera moves, and a narration line written to time. This is the one mandatory approval gate.
2
Pick the theme by eye
It proposes 3 to 4 theme presets that fit the claim's era and tone (american-retro, swiss-modern, punk-zine, paper-craft-cream, and more), renders beat one in each as a bake-off, and you pick the winner. That choice also settles the image model for the whole ad.
3
Generate the collage posters
One richly layered torn-paper poster per shot with nano-banana-2 for the paper grain, the headline baked in at generation (Advibly has no text-overlay tool by design), and your real product photo composited in photoreal, the one element never stylized.
4
Bring the collage alive
Each approved poster animates into living-collage motion with Gemini Omni Flash: layers parallax, edges flutter, pieces assemble and scatter, all SFX-only. The dramatic punches (assemble-from-empty, confetti, impact shake, whip) come from motion prompts alone. Seedance 2.5 handles exact end-frame reveals.
5
Narrate and score
The beats' narration lines join into one continuous read (xAI TTS) and an instrumental bed (MiniMax 2.6) sits under it, mixed over the paper foley with sidechain ducking so the voice always leads.
6
Stitch, caption, publish
The shots stitch into one Vox-style cut, optional dynamic captions can be burned in, and the finished explainer can post to a connected social account.

Six steps, two of them yours.

Approve the beat map, pick the look, and the rest runs itself.

Start creating

Every format

It cuts vertical too.

Ask for 9:16 and the whole thing recomposes: the poster layout, where the headline sits, how far the camera pushes. Not a 16:9 cut with the sides cropped off, which is what makes most repurposed explainers unwatchable on a phone.

9:16 for Reels, TikTok and Shorts, 16:9 for YouTube and site embeds
Headlines composed for the tall frame, never cropped mid-word
Publishes straight to a connected social account when you are done

Start creating Install the skill

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The model stack

Right model, right job.

Six models across four labs, wired together so you never pick one. The skill knows which one draws paper best, which one moves it, and which one has to land a shot on an exact frame.

What you get

A finished Vox-style paper-collage explainer ad (9:16 or 16:9)
A collage poster per shot with the headline baked in
An approved beat map and a theme picked by eye
A narration script and score, mixed in
Everything filed in your Advibly library, ready to publish

Start creating Read the source

nano-banana-2

Torn-paper collage posters at 2K, headline baked in

gpt-image-2

The type-heavy fallback when a headline has to be exact

Gemini Omni Flash

Living-collage motion: parallax, flutter, assemble, scatter

Seedance 2.5

Shots that must land on an exact end frame

xAI TTS

The narrator, one read per beat

MiniMax 2.6

The instrumental bed under it

Install

Add it in seconds.

Install the skill, then make sure the Advibly MCP is connected so it has tools to call. Works with every skills-capable agent.

Claude Code

Claude

Cursor

Codex

VS Code

OpenClaw

Hermes

ChatGPT

Connect the Advibly MCP first

One click, no terminal

Download .skill Download .zip

Drop the .skill file into Claude → Settings → Skills, or unzip the folder into ~/.claude/skills.

One command (any agent)

npx skills add advibly/skills -s vox-explainer

Works with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any agent that supports skills. Pulls straight from GitHub.

Manual (Claude Code)

git clone https://github.com/advibly/skills.git
cp -R skills/vox-explainer ~/.claude/skills/

Or in Claude Desktop: Settings → Skills → Install and select the skill folder.

Bundled references

The playbook.

Each skill ships with reference docs the agent loads on demand, so the craft is baked in.

beat-layer.md

The narrative arc library, hook patterns, beat counts, shot sizes, the flat-safe camera vocabulary, and the anti-monotony move rhythm.

prompt-guide.md

The 5-part image prompt structure, the dimension vocabulary banks, the 5-axis motion prompt, and the theme presets with the bake-off.

motion-collage.md

The dramatic looks (assemble-from-empty, hero fly-across, confetti, impact shake, whip) reached through motion prompts, no local scripts.

models-and-gotchas.md

Image and video model choice, content blocks, the positive-phrasing rule, and the full final-mix ffmpeg recipe.

Honest limits

What to watch for.

The look lives in the poster. If a poster is not a rich layered collage, motion cannot save it, so weak posters get re-rolled before animating.
Every headline is baked in at generation; there is no text-overlay step. A degraded headline is re-rolled or shortened.
The real product stays photoreal while everything else is paper. Redrawing the product as paper is the most common failure and gets caught before motion.
One image model and one video model per delivered ad; the set swaps whole or not at all.
Real people or third-party logos move the whole ad to Kling, since the default motion models block recognizable faces and marks.

Questions

Before you install it.

What is a Vox-style explainer video?

It is the modern editorial look Vox made famous: torn-paper and halftone collage, a bold headline card on almost every shot, archival cut-outs sliding over textured paper, and a calm narrator explaining one idea. The skill reproduces that language shot by shot and ends on your product, composited photoreal so it never turns into paper with everything else.

What do I have to give the agent?

A brand that is already onboarded in Advibly and one claim you want the video to prove. Everything else - the narrative arc, the beat map, the shot list, the headlines, the narration script and the score - is written by the skill and shown to you before a credit is spent.

How long does a full explainer take?

The approval gates are the slow part, not the models. You approve the beat map and pick a theme from a live bake-off; after that the posters, the motion, the voiceover and the score run as background jobs and the finished cut lands in your Advibly library.

What does it cost?

The skill itself is free and open source. Running it spends your existing Advibly credits on the images and clips it generates, at no extra skill cost, and every generation shows its credit cost before it runs.

Which agents can run it?

Any agent that supports installable skills and the Model Context Protocol: Claude Code, Claude, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, OpenClaw, Hermes and ChatGPT. Install with one npx command, then connect the Advibly MCP so the skill has tools to call.

Can it make a vertical version for Reels and TikTok?

Yes. The same pipeline cuts 9:16 as well as 16:9. Ask for vertical and the posters, the headline placement and the motion are all composed for the tall frame, and the finished cut can post straight to a connected social account.