Guide2026-10-196 min read
What Is a Rant Layout? The Frame, the Sprite and the Video
A rant layout is the transparent frame around a rant video. Learn its five pieces, why it is square, why the window must be see-through, and how to make one.
RantLayout tutorials
Rant Layout Blog
Guides for making rant layouts: what they are, how to design the frame, colours and decorations, fixing a sprite cutout, and placing the transparent PNG over your video in CapCut.
Where to start
These guides follow the order most people work in: understand the format, design the frame, fix what goes wrong, then put the layout into a video. Each one answers a single question and links to the next.
New to rant layouts
Start with what a rant layout is: the five pieces of a rant video, why most layouts are square, and why the window has to be transparent.
Designing your own
Pick an arrangement in rant layout structures, choose a palette with the colour guide, then add the small pieces from decoration ideas. All three draw on 200 public layouts we studied.
When something goes wrong
Repair a sprite with missing hands or leftover background in fix a sprite cutout, and keep your work safe with save and resume.
Finishing the video
Put the PNG over your slime clip without cropping in how to make a rant layout video, including the CapCut overlay steps on a phone.
Every guide is written from the Maker as it works today and updated when it changes; the date on each card is the last update. Spotted something out of date? Tell us through the Contact page.
Design2026-10-197 min read
Rant Layout Structures: Header, Frame, Complex, Dual and More
The arrangements behind most rant layouts, counted across 200 public examples: where the bands, sprite, stickers and video window go, and when to use each.
Design2026-10-196 min read
Rant Layout Colours: Match Your Sprite and Slime Video
Pick rant layout colours from your sprite and your slime clip, see six colour schemes that recur in 200 layouts, and avoid the mistakes that make a frame look flat.
Design2026-10-197 min read
Rant Layout Decoration Ideas: Stars, Name Tags, Lace and More
The small pieces that recur on rant layouts, from name tags and colour chips to eye strips and progress bars, with where to place them and how much to add.
Maker help2026-09-174 min read
Save and Resume Your Rant Layout
Keep your editable layout with browser autosave, restore a draft after refreshing, and download a JSON backup with your local images.
Maker help2026-09-175 min read
Fix a Sprite Cutout: Missing Parts and Extra Background
Select one person or anime sprite, restore missing edges, erase unwanted background, and check the transparent cutout before adding it to your layout.
Tutorial2026-09-177 min read
How to Make a Rant Layout Video
Learn how to make a rant layout video with a transparent PNG, a slime or edit background, safe sizing, and simple steps to avoid cropping.
Start with the Maker
Most tutorials here connect back to the same workflow: make a reusable transparent PNG in RantLayout, then place it over your video or edit background.
Open Rant Layout Maker