Hand-Drawn Callout Arrow — effect skill for headlines & callouts

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A wobbly arrow draws itself from a short label to the exact button or number on screen.

What it does

Built on Hand-Drawn Arrow by HeyGen (HyperFrames), Apache-2.0. The write-up and recipes below are varg's.

A marker-style stroke with a slight boil travels from a two-word note in the margin to the UI target; the head lands last.

When: Point at a small detail in a UI shot that the viewer would otherwise miss.

Watch out: Do not let the arrow cross the product UI it points at; route it around and land on the edge of the target.

Timing: Label 0.3 s, stroke draw 0.5–0.7 s power2.out, hold ≥ 1.5 s.

Also called: annotation arrow, doodle callout, ink arrow

In HyperFrames

npx hyperframes add hw-arrow

tl.fromTo("#arrow path",{strokeDashoffset:len},{strokeDashoffset:0,duration:0.6,ease:"power2.out"},2.1);

In Remotion

// npx shadcn@latest add @remocn/ink-arrow
const draw = interpolate(frame,[0,18],[len,0],{extrapolateRight:'clamp'});
<path strokeDasharray={len} strokeDashoffset={draw}/>

In CapCut

Stickers → search "arrow" (hand-drawn), place it, Animation In "Wipe" or keyframe Scale from the tail corner; add a Text label beside it.

Ready-made components

Where this comes from

Use when

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Install

Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/b7b197845a90/take-hand-drawn-callout-arrow.mp4 — The Hand-Drawn Arrow component rendered as installed (npx hyperframes add hw-arrow), defaults only (credit: Rendered by varg · HyperFrames Hand-Drawn Arrow, https://hyperframes.heygen.com/catalog/components/hw-arrow)

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