Personal cards · from £2.99
Write their name.
We'll make the card.
Thirty seconds of real film for £4.99, or a drawn animation for £2.99. Either way the name is set in type — so it is spelled the way you spelled it, in every frame, with its accents intact.
Two ways to make one
One is filmed. One is drawn.
They are genuinely different things, and the cheaper one is better at some jobs. Here is the honest comparison rather than a feature grid designed to push you upward.
A director writes a shot list for your occasion, a video model films it, and a voice reads your message over it. It looks like something that was shot — real light, real depth, a camera that moves for a reason.
- Thirty seconds, 9:16, with sound
- Your photos can appear in it, and the same face carries through every shot
- A spoken message, in the tone you pick, or none at all
- The greeting itself is set as type and composited, never left to the model to spell
- Takes a few minutes to render, not seconds
- Every re-render costs us money, so revisions are limited
Drawn, not filmed. The whole card is a function of time — every frond, ember and letter computed from one clock — so it can be re-rendered with a different name for nothing, instantly, as many times as you like.
- Plays anywhere a web page plays, at any size, sharp
- Ready the moment you have typed the name
- Change your mind about the wording as often as you want
- Under 100 kB, so it opens on a bad signal at a birthday party
- Illustrated. It does not look like footage, and is not trying to
- Your own photos cannot appear inside it
The animated cards
An apology should not arrive with confetti on it.
The occasion sets the register, and the registers are not interchangeable. These three are different cards — different art, different pacing, different light — not one card with the colours swapped. All three are playing right now.
How a filmed card is written
Before anything is filmed, someone writes the shots.
This is the real plan our director wrote for one real brief — “a peacock feather firework display that evolves into a display that spells out Happy birthday Sara”. Four shots, one camera instruction each, and a greeting that is set in type rather than left to the model to spell.
From near-darkness a single gold comet climbs the centre of the frame. The camera tilts up to follow it. At its apex it opens into one enormous peacock-feather burst, teal fronds unfurling, each tip igniting into a gold-ringed eye.
A slow push-in as five more bursts open in an overlapping arc, arranged like a peacock's fanned tail across the upper frame. The eyes pulse brighter one after another, left to right. Emerald embers rain slowly through the frame.
The camera cranes down, revealing a still lake carrying a perfect mirrored copy of the display. Above, the scattered bursts drift and converge, their sparks curling inward into a single swirl of teal and gold.
Locked off on the glowing heart of the display. The greeting fades in, centred, and holds to the end. Behind it the scene stays alive — small bursts still blooming at the edges, embers still falling, the lake still shimmering.
Show the greeting plate as it was specified
"exact_text": ["Happy Birthday", "Sara"], "cta_mode": "overlay", "ratio": "16:9", "prompt": Elegant celebration overlay graphic, landscape canvas. An opaque deep midnight-navy rounded rectangle backing with a very subtle darker vignette at its edges. Two lines of centred text: the first line in a refined high-contrast serif, warm metallic gold with a fine emerald-teal gradient edge and a restrained soft outer glow; the second line larger, in a graceful flowing script, same gold treatment. Beneath the text, a small ornamental flourish of a single stylised peacock feather in teal and gold, horizontal and symmetrical. Generous margins, luxurious and festive, no other elements. NEGATIVE CONSTRAINTS: the fireworks never form letters, numbers, words, or symbols of any kind — all written content comes only from the provided overlay graphic; no people, crowds, or silhouetted figures in frame; no daylight; no fade to black before the end.
The animated card in the hero is that same plan, drawn instead of filmed: same four beats, same fanned tail, same crane down to the water, same resolve onto a held greeting.
What happens
Three steps, and one of them is waiting.
Tell us who it's for
The occasion, their name exactly as you spell it, and what you want to say. Two sentences is plenty — the best cards are short.
We make it
The animated card is ready straight away. A filmed card takes a few minutes: the shots are written, then filmed, then the greeting is set and composited over the last beat.
You send it
You get a link and a file. Send it in a message, put it on a screen at the party, or play it from your phone across a table.
Start a card
Who is it for?
Tell us about the card and we'll send you a link to preview and pay. Nothing is charged here, and we don't send anything except your card.
A live preview of the animated card, with what you have typed on it. The filmed card is shot from the same brief.