Stadium
A floodlit night stadium — packed stands and boundary boards, graded like a TV broadcast.
- Moves
- Camera flashes pop in the crowd.
- On the hit
- The crowd and their phone torches rise in a wave.
Backdrop scenes
Bat in another world.
Pick a scene and your net session plays out somewhere else — a floodlit stadium, a jungle temple, a neon street in the rain. Every scene is a painting drawn by code, on your phone, that moves through your clip — and in many, the moment you hit the ball sets something off. And the next one could be yours.
- The batter always stays in clear view
- Painted on your phone — no download
- Works offline, any frame shape
The scenes
One opening. A different world around it every time.
Every scene leaves a doorway, an arch or a window where your batter stands, and builds its world around that opening — so the cricket is never covered.
In the app today
Space Portal
A glowing round viewport on a starship deck, looking out on a ringed planet.
- Moves
- Energy wisps circle the rim, moons orbit and comets streak past.
Inferno
A burning, eye-shaped opening between erupting volcanoes, under hanging ash.
- Moves
- Craters flicker, embers fall and lightning crosses the range.
Temple Gate
A carved stone doorway sinking into the jungle, hung with vines.
- Moves
- Fireflies drift and blink beside the batter.
Desert Worm
A giant ringed worm bursting up through the dunes — with the batter in its mouth.
- Moves
- Its body breathes, a freighter crosses the sky and a booster rocket comes down once.
Bengaluru Nights
A city at night across a lake, flowering trees, and a flyover arch over the batter.
- Moves
- Traffic crawls, a metro train crosses and tower lights blink.
Keyhole Wood
A gilt keyhole cut through a great tree, with roses, toadstools and a top hat.
- Moves
- Butterflies drift, sparks run up the keyhole and a grin slowly appears in the leaves.
Simulation Corridor
A hallway made of code, with doors of light down both walls.
- Moves
- Falling characters stream down the walls and cables spark overhead.
Neon Monsoon
Looking straight up a rain-soaked neon street canyon.
- Moves
- Rain falls, a hologram unicorn flickers and an airship sweeps its searchlight.
Windward Sands
A beach at sunset under two crossing palms, with a lighthouse on the point.
- Moves
- Surf runs up the sand, a dolphin leaps and gulls trace a heart.
- On the hit
- The lighthouse beam flares toward the camera and seabirds dive.
Night Fest
A neon portal in a fan of peacock feathers, on a dry lake bed at night.
- Moves
- A timber figure burns, a glowing jellyfish drifts and light beams sweep the sky.
Arriving in the next update
Maidan Morning
Tournament morning on a big city ground, under a scalloped banner arch.
- Moves
- Kites swing and birds land in the flowering trees.
Ninja Dojo
A lacquered gateway at sunset, ninja murals holding bats, a snow-capped volcano behind.
- Moves
- The fountain and the waterfalls flow.
- On the hit
- A ninja’s leap across the gate peaks right on the hit.
Sea Fort
The arched gate of a whitewashed sea fort, a clock tower and a beach beyond.
- Moves
- Clouds drift, the flag flies and kites sway.
- On the hit
- Spectators under umbrellas along the walls rise in a wave.
Cloud Table
A ground by the sea, with a flat-topped mountain across the bay.
- Moves
- A white cloud slides slowly over the mountain’s flat top.
- On the hit
- A wave runs through the stands and along the grass banks.
Bush Oval
A country oval in the bush: an iron-roofed grandstand and gum trees full of parrots.
- Moves
- The windmill turns and the flags wave.
- On the hit
- Birds burst from the gums, cars flash their lights and a kangaroo leaps the boundary board.
County Summer
A county ground by a river as a summer shower passes, a cathedral beyond.
- Moves
- Drizzle falls and the willows sway.
- On the hit
- The sun breaks through, the umbrellas fold and a rainbow rises.
Southern Lights
Cricket on the sea ice beside a polar station, with penguins and an iceberg.
- Moves
- The aurora ripples overhead.
- On the hit
- The iceberg calves, and the crowd and the penguins cheer.
Each card is a sketch of the scene’s palette and its opening, not a frame from the scene — they look best moving, in the app. Pick one per clip, or one for the whole reel.
The art
No stock images. Every leaf is drawn.
A scene isn’t a video file or a downloaded picture. It is drawn, line by line, by code that runs on your phone when you export — so scenes cost no data, work offline, and fit any frame from a vertical Reel to a wide YouTube cut.
The idea
A world in one sentence
A place, a time of day, and the one thing nobody forgets about it. The name comes early, and it names the kind of place, never a real brand or landmark.
The brief
Written before it’s drawn
Where the batter stands, what fills the band across the top, what moves through the clip, what happens on the hit, the light and the palette — agreed in words first.
The drawing
Painted in code
Skies, walls, crowds and lanterns built up layer by layer: soft gradients, one light, haze for distance. A reference picture gives the shape; the art is drawn from scratch.
The testing
Measured over real footage
Checked in portrait and landscape, close up and far away, around a real batter — never covering them, never too dark to read, and still alive when the clip ends.
The batter comes firstThe opening is solved around the player in every frame. A scene that covers the cricket doesn’t ship.
Story in the top bandOn a wide shot a scene may be only a strip above the batter, so that strip has to say where you are.
One signatureEvery scene is built around one element you remember — a lighthouse beam, a hologram unicorn, an aurora over the ice.
The hit is the cueIn many scenes the moment of bat on ball sets something off: a crowd wave, a burst of birds, the sun breaking through the rain.
Kind to every eyeA “Still backgrounds” setting holds every scene on one calm frame for viewers who prefer less motion.
Made with careNo real brands, flags, badges or names in the art, and every outside reference recorded in the app’s credits.
Propose a scene
Got a world you’d love to bat in? Send it.
A sketch on paper, a photo you took, an AI image you made, or just a paragraph. The strongest ideas become real scenes in the app — and you can be credited by name.
What makes a scene work
- A place you can say in one sentence — “a tea estate in the hills at dawn”.
- An opening the batter stands in — a doorway, an arch, a gap between two trees. Taller than it is wide, standing on the ground.
- A top band that tells the story — what’s above the batter matters most, because on a wide shot that strip may be all that shows.
- One signature thing nobody forgets.
- Something that happens on the hit.
- A time of day and a handful of colours.
What we can’t use
- Real brands, logos, team badges or sponsors’ names
- Flags, or religious or political symbols used as decoration
- Real people, or characters and worlds from films, games or comics
- Anything frightening or unsuitable for children
- Anything over the batter — the player always comes first
- Pictures you don’t have the right to share
A brand that wants a scene of its own is a commission — see CricCuts for brands.
Pictures
Link them, or email them
Paste up to three links below — Google Drive, Dropbox, your own site — and tell us where each picture came from. Or email them to support@criccuts.com with your scene’s name in the subject.
Using AI?
We’ll write the prompt for you
Fill in the form and it builds a prompt that frames the image the way scenes are made — the opening in the centre, the story across the top, no text or logos. Copy it into your image tool, then link the result.
Designers
Send a full brief
The form saves as a scene brief file our build tools read directly. Start from the blank template or the worked example, and import it back into the form to send.
Propose a scene
The essentials take about three minutes. Everything under “More detail” is optional but helps a lot. Fields marked * are required.
After you press send
What happens to your idea.
Every proposal
We read it
Every one, and we reply by email — whether or not we can take it further.
If it fits
We write the brief
We turn your idea into a design brief, and may write back with questions about the opening, the colours or the hit.
Then
It’s drawn and tested
Painted in code and measured over real batting, round after round, until it is right.
Finally
It ships
In an app update, with your name in the credits if you asked for it.
Honestly: a new scene takes weeks of drawing and testing, so we can’t build every idea, and the one we build may change a lot on the way. We’ll tell you either way.
