About ShortsCraft

Why we rebuilt it

The first version of ShortsCraft animated paragraphs: big words sliding across a colourful gradient. Creators told us plainly that it did not look like animation. They were right — the tools people admire animate objects and interfaces: a toggle flipping, a counter ticking, a progress ring sweeping, a logo drawing itself. The subject matter was the problem, not the polish.

So the template engine was replaced. Every template is now a single looping idea, built from CSS only, on a monochrome base with exactly one accent colour you control.

How it works

1. Pick a template from 59 motion templates across eight categories.
2. Edit the content — the fields are named for what the animation actually shows, so a progress ring asks for a percentage, not a paragraph.
3. Build a sequence on the timeline. Each clip has its own template, text, accent and duration.
4. Export a real MP4. Headless Chrome renders the animation frame by frame and ffmpeg encodes H.264 — deterministic timing, no screen recording, no dropped frames.

What the AI does

Two separate things. It writes the words — scripts, titles, descriptions, hashtags, follow-up ideas and thumbnail prompts, in Hinglish. And from a prompt it can design a brand-new scene: describe an object and it writes the CSS for a looping animation of it, up to ten seconds.

What it produces is still CSS, not video. That matters, because it means an AI scene exports through exactly the same deterministic pipeline as a built-in template — the same project renders identically every time, and nothing is re-generated at export.

Everything it writes is a first draft. Review it, make it yours, then publish. That is also the platform-safe way to work.

Who builds this

ShortsCraft is an independent product built for Indian creators, from the same workshop as the Tech Vault channel. Feature requests reach a human: use Feedback.