Animatic

A screenplay becomes a rough cut. Rocky (1976), scenes 1–8.

1 · Parse the screenplay

runs live

Reads the PDF and re-derives the beat list on every call — nothing here is replayed. Takes about a minute.

2 · Render the cut

The same scenes at three states. Assembly is live; the panels, voices and motion it assembles were generated ahead of time.

Today’s generation budget

Google caps each model at 100 requests a day. Three of the controls below cost nothing; one of them can spend a third of the image budget in a click.

3 · Swap a shot for real footage

0% real

Drop a clip on any shot. The filename does not matter — the beat it lands on does. Remove it and the drawn shot comes back.

4 · Characters

Point a character at a folder of reference images and its panels redraw from that art instead of being re-invented from text each time. The number on each row is what the redraw costs.

5 · Edit a shot

free unless you redraw

Pick a shot, then hold it longer, describe a change, or drop in a version you edited yourself. Only the described change costs a call.

Choose a shot from the strip above.

6 · Dailies

free

A take covering a range of beats. It plays its own full length with its own production sound, so the cut gets shorter or longer to fit it.