A system creating an interactive video using a markup language is disclosed. The disclosed system receives a video request including a set of source scene IDs arranged in a predetermined ordering. The system retrieves a set of source scenes associated with the set of source scene IDs and generates video scenes in the form of a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) page for the set of source scenes. Each of the generated video scenes includes one or more interactive HTML elements and one or more animations. The system then generates a scene collection to include the video scenes arranged based on the predetermined ordering and renders the video scenes in the scene collection.