The right AI animation style depends on the job, not on taste alone: a story with recurring characters needs a style that keeps faces consistent, a social ad needs text that lands in three seconds, and a background loop needs to be cheap and seamless. Yeşilçam Studios offers 19 styles, and each one is built for a different kind of work. This guide sorts them by use so you can decide in a minute.

All styles share the same basics: a preview in the browser, rendering to MP4, WebP or GIF, aspect ratios of 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1, a length between 10 and 120 seconds, and Professional or Premium quality. What differs is what the style can show, whether it takes your own characters, and how much it costs to produce.

Start with three questions

  1. Does the piece need characters the viewer will recognise from scene to scene? If yes, look at the Cinemation family, Foliomation or Puppetmation. These are the styles where the Characters panel appears.
  2. Do the characters need to talk? Spoken dialogue belongs to the Cinemation styles, with lip sync in all of them except Shadowmation and Pixelmation, which voice the lines and caption the speaker without mouth animation. Foliomation also offers the Speech selector; Puppetmation takes characters by name and description only; Typemation and Popbook have no dialogue at all, because the text is the content.
  3. Is budget the main constraint? Papercraft, Typemation, Fluxmation and Dioramation generate no images, so they cost noticeably less than styles that paint pictures or animate video.

For stories and short films

Inkmation is the all-rounder for storytelling. You give it a story; it writes a screenplay, narration and music and delivers a brush-drawn animated film, with 11 platform aspect ratios for export. Pick it when the story matters more than a specific character design.

Foliomation suits fairy tales and quiet, atmospheric stories: layered paper-cut scenes with parallax depth, snow, stars or fireflies, and word-by-word subtitles. It accepts your own character, so a family mascot or a picture-book hero can star.

The Cinemation styles are for stories that need motion, dialogue and a strong visual genre. Choose by mood:

  • Celmation for classic anime drama and adventure.
  • Toymation for a warm, cute 3D feature-film look that works for family audiences.
  • Toonmation for slapstick and classic cartoon comedy.
  • Claymation for the tactile plasticine stop-motion charm.
  • Wuxiamation for martial-arts legends, either as a Legend 2D ink-and-gold scroll or in Cinematic 3D.
  • Neonmation for cyberpunk, night cities and tech stories.
  • Pixelmation for 16-bit game nostalgia.
  • Shadowmation for Karagöz shadow play: backlit screen, perforated coloured leather puppets, lamp flicker. Ideal for folk tales and cultural projects.
  • Panelmation for motion comics: panel by panel, speech balloons, SFX lettering and halftone.
  • Postermation for mid-century travel-poster vector art in two to four colours, perfect for places such as the Bosphorus or Kadıköy.

For social ads and promos

Typemation is the first choice when the message is the product: kinetic typography timed to the narration, with no characters and no dialogue. It reads well with the sound off and fits 9:16 and 1:1 feeds.

Postermation works for travel, city and event promotions where a bold, flat graphic identity helps. Panelmation is strong when an ad tells a mini story with lines of dialogue, because balloons carry the words visually. Toymation and Toonmation give a friendly mascot a voice.

For backgrounds, loops and ambient visuals

  • Fluxmation: shader-driven fluid ink or marble art that never repeats. Use it for background clips behind a speaker, a stage screen or a website hero, or as a narrated art video.
  • Papercraft: paper landscapes that build themselves layer by layer. Calm, economical, lovely for intros.
  • Dioramation: self-building low-poly floating 3D islands with windmills, lighthouses and waterfalls, lit from day to sunset to night. Good for openers and brand worlds.

These four generate no images, so they are the least expensive styles and a smart way to fill screens on a small budget.

For children, families and classrooms

Popbook is an interactive pop-up book that runs in the browser. Children choose what happens by typing or pressing buttons, the story teaches a value such as courage, sharing or patience, and it ends with a question for the family or class. It is shared by link. See Popbook for classrooms.

Puppetmation suits simple kids’ stories: jointed paper puppets that walk, jump, wave and sit, described by name and look. Toymation and Foliomation are gentle choices for bedtime-style videos.

For teaching and explaining

Labmation builds an interactive lab that teaches one concept, for example how camera focus works with an exploded lens, light rays, the focal plane and the aperture. It runs in a secure sandbox in the browser and is shared by link; read building interactive labs for good topics. For explainer videos, Typemation turns a narrated definition into readable motion, and Panelmation can dramatise a historical scene.

A quick decision list

  • Story, no fixed characters, want it fast: Inkmation.
  • Story with your own talking characters: a Cinemation style chosen by mood.
  • Soft fairy tale with your character and subtitles: Foliomation.
  • Text-first ad or quote: Typemation.
  • Background loop or ambient art on a budget: Fluxmation, Papercraft, Dioramation.
  • Something children interact with: Popbook.
  • One concept students can play with: Labmation.

When in doubt, open the samples on the Animation page, then make a 20-second Professional test in your two favourite styles and compare.

Frequently asked questions

Which animation style is cheapest? Papercraft, Typemation, Fluxmation and Dioramation, because they generate no images. The exact price is always shown before you start.

Which styles let me use my own characters? The Cinemation styles, Foliomation and Puppetmation. Puppetmation takes a name and description only, no image upload.

Which styles support spoken dialogue? Character styles offer the Speech selector, except Puppetmation. Dialogue in each character’s own voice is part of the Cinemation styles, and it is lip-synced in all of them except Shadowmation and Pixelmation, which are drawn by a 2.5D animation engine.

Can I use the same story in two styles? Yes. Each production is separate, so you can paste the same text into a second style and compare the results.