We make storiespeople can’t stopwatching
A video studio for AI motion, video essays and short-form, where every film is built around the first three seconds that decide whether anyone stays
Brands and creators who trusted us with their first three seconds
- Scaler School of Technology
- Masters’ Union
- SuperYou
- Anandi School
- Owled Media
- Tech Burner
- upGrad
- Scapia
- Frido
Selected work
Each one built to hold you well past the first three seconds
Short-form
Twenty-three days to pitch the founder of Reebok
Masters’ Union gave one student twenty-three days to design a shoe from scratch and present it to the founder of Reebok, and asked us to turn her journey into a daily series that people would actually follow
We cut it as a story with a deadline, one episode a day, each built so that finishing it made you want the next. The first episode crossed three million views inside seventy-two hours, has since passed 4.6 million, and brought her ten thousand new followers within days.
Follow the series on Instagram- Views on episode one
- 4.6M
- Views across the series
- 7.5M+
- New followers for her
- 10K
What happens when people don’t scroll past
- Views on day one of a 23-day series for Masters’ Union
- 4.6M
- Views on a single founder story for Masters’ Union
- 331K
- Likes on one 55-second creator reel
- 118K
- Average like rate across five films for Scaler School of Technology
- 5%
Public view and like counts as of October 2026
How we make people stay
We start at second one
Before a word of script exists we find the moment your audience can’t look away from, and build everything after it to earn that attention
Then we draw every frame
Script and storyboard come to you for sign-off first, so if anything needs to change it changes on paper, where changes are cheap
Then it moves
Generation, animation and the edit run side by side, which means you see a rough cut early instead of a surprise at the end
Then it goes everywhere
One master, recut for every screen it’s headed to, from widescreen to vertical, captioned and ready to post
A note from the founder
I started Cliffhanger because I kept watching brilliant ideas lose their audience in the first three seconds. Sharp founders, useful products and genuinely good stories, all gone to a thumb that moved on before the point arrived.
So we built a studio around that moment. Every film we make starts with the hook and has to earn every second after it, whether it’s an AI explainer for a product launch, an eight-minute video essay or a reel for someone who has never posted before.
We work with teams across the US, the UK and Australia, which in practice means your feedback often turns into a new cut while you sleep. If you have a story worth finishing, I’d love to hear it.
Smit BhuratFounder, Cliffhanger Studios
- AI motionExplainers, launch films, characters
- Video essaysResearch, script, edit, graphics
- Short-formFounder stories, Reels, Shorts
- Post-productionEdit, color, sound, cut-downs
Every story needs an ending, so let’s write yours
Tell us what you’re making and who it’s for, and a real person will read it and reply within one business day, whether you’re in New York, London or Sydney
Prefer email? smit@cliffhangerstudios.in