What is Melies?
Melies is an AI filmmaking studio for indie filmmakers, creators, and other people developing visual projects. It brings together tools for writing stories, storyboarding, generating images and video, creating voices and music, and finishing a film. Users can choose from more than 30 AI models, work with ready-made or custom AI actors, and create assets such as movie posters and thumbnails in the same platform.
Melies Features:
Filmmaking Toolkit: A set of 42 focused tools supports writing, storyboarding, casting, image and video generation, editing, sound, and finishing.
Image and Video: Generate images and turn text or images into video clips using models such as Kling, Veo, Sora, Luma, and Seedance.
AI Actors: Choose from a library of more than 150 AI actors or train a custom character from a single photo for use in images, videos, and posters.
Character References: Upload reference photos to keep a character’s face and identity consistent across scenes, expressions, and camera angles.
Styles and Effects: Apply visual styles from a searchable, curated library and use cinematic effects, camera movement presets, and duration controls for video.
Story and Sound: Create screenplays, voices, music, and sound effects alongside visual assets in the creative suite.
Plans and Credits: Monthly-credit plans include the AI tools, with model costs varying by settings; Pro and Max include commercial licenses.
Melies Benefits:
Fewer Tool Handoffs: Keeping writing, visuals, and sound in one studio can reduce the need to move project material between separate creative tools.
Consistent Characters: Reference photos help preserve a character’s identity across shots, making it easier to build a coherent sequence.
More Visual Options: Access to multiple models and styles gives creators room to compare different treatments for the same idea.
Clearer Credit Planning: Model cost comparisons and monthly credit allowances help users estimate how much generation their plan can support.
Commercial Project Use: The commercial licenses on Pro and Max give eligible users a plan option for work intended for commercial use.
Use Cases:
Indie Film Development: Develop a film concept by writing the story, creating storyboards, and generating visual references in one workspace.
Character-Led Scenes: Build scenes featuring the same custom or library actor across multiple images, video clips, and poster designs.
Short Video Concepts: Turn a text prompt or still image into a cinematic clip to explore a visual idea or assemble footage for a project.
Film Promotion: Create a movie poster or thumbnail that gives an indie film, pitch, or video project a visual identity.
AI Agent Assets: Use Melies’ CLI toolkit to generate images, videos, posters, and thumbnails as part of an agent-led creative workflow.