How to Create RSA Animate, MinutePhysics, The Swedish Investor, Practical Engineering and The Paint Explainer Styles With Golpo
Watch five real Golpo Custom Style videos inspired by the broad visual languages of RSA Animate, MinutePhysics, The Swedish Investor, Practical Engineering, and The Paint Explainer. See the exact reference image and prompt used for every example.
Search for an explainer video style and you will quickly encounter five recognizable reference points: RSA Animate for connected visual synthesis, MinutePhysics for economical science doodles, The Swedish Investor for clean financial diagrams, Practical Engineering for technical mechanism drawings, and The Paint Explainer for playful flat-painted storytelling.
This guide shows how to create original videos with those broad visual characteristics using Golpo Canvas Custom Style. Every example below is a real Custom Style video. For each one, you can see the exact image uploaded to Golpo, the resulting animation, and the prompt used to create it.
RSA Animate · The Swedish Investor · Practical Engineering · MinutePhysics · The Paint Explainer · Create your style
Five real Golpo Custom Style examples
1. RSA Animate-inspired visual synthesis
RSA Animate is strongly associated with arguments that accumulate across a shared visual field: people, objects, pathways, arrows, metaphors, and short labels connect into one evolving explanation. For this original Golpo interpretation, the reference uses organic black pen lines, loose hatching, an off-white background, and a restrained red accent.
Open the RSA Animate-inspired Golpo video
Prompt used:
Explain why some rewards can reduce motivation in one minute. Show how an external reward can change an enjoyable activity from something a person chooses to something they feel paid to do. Explain why motivation may decline when the reward disappears, and why purpose, progress, and autonomy can be better motivators.
What Golpo learned from the image: hand-drawn pen-and-ink rendering, an off-white field, black organic linework, loose hatching, red directional accents, dispersed diagrams, connected pathways, and generous whitespace.
2. The Swedish Investor-inspired minimalist finance style
The Swedish Investor is a useful reference for turning investing and business concepts into clean visual comparisons. A restrained white background, flat figures, coins, charts, and consistent accent colors keep attention on the financial relationship rather than decoration.
Open The Swedish Investor-inspired Golpo video
Prompt used:
Explain dollar-cost averaging to a beginning investor in one minute. Show how investing the same amount regularly buys fewer shares when prices are high and more shares when prices are low. Explain that it does not guarantee a profit or eliminate market risk, and emphasize the behavioral benefit of following a consistent plan.
What Golpo learned from the image: flat vector rendering, pure-white backgrounds, uniform black outlines, simple gray shadows, blue primary elements, red secondary elements, yellow highlights, modular diagram groups, and high whitespace.
3. Practical Engineering-inspired technical whiteboard
Practical Engineering's whiteboard segments are a useful reference when the viewer must understand how a physical system works. The successful ingredients are orthographic views, cross-sections, dimensions, material cues, force arrows, and magnified details—not generic decorative illustrations.
Open the Practical Engineering-inspired Golpo video
Prompt used:
Explain why bridges need expansion joints in one minute. Show how steel and concrete expand in hot weather and contract in cold weather, how small changes add up across a long bridge, what can happen when movement is restricted, and how expansion joints protect the structure while traffic crosses safely.
What Golpo learned from the image: hand-drawn architectural sketches, cross-hatched shading, faint grid lines, blue-black construction lines, orange callouts and arrows, magnified detail inserts, and a structured technical layout.
4. MinutePhysics-inspired physics doodles
MinutePhysics is a strong reference for explaining a narrow scientific question through economical marker diagrams. The art does not need to be elaborate; its job is to expose the physical relationship quickly through arrows, motion paths, objects, and compact notation.
Open the MinutePhysics-inspired Golpo video
Prompt used:
Explain Newton's Laws to a 10th Grader.
What Golpo learned from the image: hand-drawn digital line art, minimal hatching, an off-white paper-like background, black outlines, blue dashed motion paths, red force arrows, modular diagrams, and ample negative space.
5. The Paint Explainer-inspired playful flat-paint style
The Paint Explainer is a useful reference for educational storytelling that feels deliberately handmade, colorful, humorous, and approachable. Thick imperfect lines, grainy flat shapes, simple characters, and visual metaphors create personality without requiring realistic animation.
Open The Paint Explainer-inspired Golpo video
Prompt used:
Explain why habits are hard to break in one minute. Introduce the cue-routine-reward loop, show how repetition makes behavior automatic, and explain how changing the cue, replacing the routine, and preserving a satisfying reward can help someone build a new habit.
What Golpo learned from the image: grainy flat digital painting, a warm cream background, thick textured black strokes, teal, orange, pink, and purple shapes, scattered flow-chart composition, playful geometry, and expressive visual metaphors.
How to create one of these styles in Golpo Canvas
- Open video.golpoai.com and enter your topic or script.
- Select Golpo Canvas.
- Open the Style menu and select + Custom Style.
- Give the style a descriptive name such as “Physics Doodles” or “Technical Engineering.”
- Choose Image or Video and upload an original or authorized visual reference. You can use the original reference images displayed in this guide.
- Select Add Style. Golpo analyzes the rendering medium, background, palette, line quality, composition, and overall aesthetic.
- Select the saved style under My Styles, review the rest of the configuration, and generate the video.
The saved style remains available for later Canvas videos. After generation, the Library configuration retains the image, video, or description that influenced the animation, making the visual provenance reviewable.
For screenshots of every step, read the complete Golpo Canvas Custom Style guide. Custom Canvas Video Styles are listed for the Business plan; consult the current pricing page because plans can change.
Which explainer style should you choose?
| Searchable reference | Broad visual language | Best topic fit |
|---|---|---|
| RSA Animate | Connected black-ink visual synthesis | Talks, psychology, strategy, systems, abstract arguments |
| The Swedish Investor | Minimal flat finance diagrams | Investing, book summaries, business models, comparisons |
| Practical Engineering | Technical sections and mechanism drawings | Structures, infrastructure, machines, hardware, physical systems |
| MinutePhysics | Economical marker diagrams with motion arrows | Physics, mathematics, compact science questions, intuition |
| The Paint Explainer | Playful grainy flat-paint storytelling | History, behavior, culture, light educational narratives |
How to choose a strong Custom Style reference image
A Custom Style image should teach Golpo a repeatable visual grammar. It should make the following qualities obvious:
- Rendering medium: pen and ink, marker doodle, technical sketch, vector illustration, or textured paint.
- Background: whiteboard, off-white paper, grid, dark board, or colored field.
- Palette: the primary line color and a small, intentional set of accent colors.
- Line behavior: uniform outlines, organic strokes, hatching, dashed connectors, or thick crayon-like marks.
- Composition: connected canvas, modular grid, orthographic layout, sparse diagrams, or narrative scene.
- Character and object construction: realistic, geometric, diagrammatic, or deliberately naive.
Avoid using a busy screenshot filled with another creator's logos, titles, or proprietary characters. Build an original style board instead. The reference should communicate how to draw, not what copyrighted scene to reproduce.
Write a prompt that fits the visual language
The best results happen when the information structure matches the style:
- For an RSA Animate-inspired video, write a connected argument with causes, consequences, tensions, and a conclusion.
- For a Swedish Investor-inspired video, define the variables, comparison, numerical example, risk, and takeaway.
- For a Practical Engineering-inspired video, name the components, materials, forces, movements, failure mode, and protective mechanism.
- For a MinutePhysics-inspired video, ask one narrow question and build the answer from a small number of physical relationships.
- For a Paint Explainer-inspired video, use concrete behavior, a memorable loop or sequence, and room for humorous visual metaphors.
If the topic is broad, reduce it before generation. “Explain Newton's three laws to a tenth grader” is more drawable than “explain all of classical mechanics.” “Why do bridges need expansion joints?” is more visually specific than “explain civil engineering.”
Quality and rights checklist
- Use an original or authorized reference image.
- Do not include another channel's logo, mascot, thumbnail, or recognizable frame.
- Write an original narration rather than paraphrasing a particular published video.
- Verify equations, measurements, financial claims, and technical diagrams.
- Check that small labels remain legible on a phone.
- Make accent colors mean something—motion, risk, category, or emphasis.
- Review whether every scene explains the narration instead of merely decorating it.
- Describe the result as “inspired by broad visual characteristics,” not an official collaboration or exact copy.
Frequently asked questions
How do I make an RSA Animate-style video with Golpo?
Create a Golpo Canvas Custom Style from an original black-ink visual-synthesis image. Use an argument that connects ideas through people, objects, metaphors, arrows, and pathways. Keep the composition original and exclude RSA branding or copied artwork.
How do I make a MinutePhysics-style animation?
Upload an original physics-doodle style board with economical black diagrams and sparse blue-red accents. Choose a narrow scientific question, then write the explanation around forces, motion, comparisons, and simple visual relationships.
Can Golpo create a Swedish Investor-style finance animation?
Yes. The real example above uses Custom Style derived from an original minimalist finance image. Clean vector figures, coins, charts, comparison panels, and a restrained color system work well for investing and business concepts.
Can Golpo create Practical Engineering-style whiteboard segments?
Yes. Use an original technical reference that clearly shows the drawing language: cross-sections, dimension lines, force arrows, material hatching, grid structure, and magnified details. Human review is essential for engineering accuracy.
How do I create The Paint Explainer-style animation?
Use an original reference with grainy flat shapes, thick imperfect outlines, simple geometric characters, a warm background, and playful metaphors. Prompts about behavior, culture, history, and everyday systems are a strong fit.
Is Golpo affiliated with these channels?
No. RSA Animate, MinutePhysics, The Swedish Investor, Practical Engineering, and The Paint Explainer are independent editorial references. Golpo AI is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
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- Use copy-ready whiteboard video prompts
- Build a complete AI explainer video
Create your own Custom Style
Start with the visual language that best matches your information. Download the corresponding original reference image above, upload it through Golpo Canvas Custom Style, enter an original prompt, and generate a short test before standardizing the look across a series.
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