Behind the story
Credits
The music, creative work, and tools behind Ellie and this story-to-Shorts tutorial.
Music
Through The Woods by Shane Ivers, from Silverman Sound.
© 2020 Shane Ivers. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
Music attribution
Music: Through The Woods by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
Use in Ellie: the track is looped or trimmed to fit the video, faded in and out, and mixed at a lower volume beneath the dialogue.
When publishing a video that uses this track, include the attribution above in its description or caption. See the original track page for the artist’s credit instructions and the license for its terms.
Explore the process in Lesson 04: TTS & music mix.
Course & production
- Course: Ellie Lab, part of Sidney Shapiro’s teaching resources.
- Illustrations: AI-generated reference images and story contact sheets, developed with a consistent character and visual style. See Images & frames.
- Generated voices: Kokoro text-to-speech, with voice selection and character adjustments documented in Story & voices.
- Audio processing: Python and FFmpeg for the dialogue and background-music mix.
- Video assembly: Remotion and React for the timeline, illustrations, titles, and subtitles. See Remotion assembly.
- Website typography: Fraunces, Figtree, and IBM Plex Mono, served through Google Fonts.