Scenes, shots, dialogue, music, transitions, credits — planned on a real timeline. The kid directs an AI partner. They keep, revise, or undo every cut. Friends watch the finished film at a kid-named URL.
Filmmaking is the same four moves on every project. The kid stays the director; the AI does the typing.
The kid names the change in their own words. No editing software to learn. No transitions list to memorize.
Three concrete cuts. The kid picks one. Pacing taste compounds.
The change lands on the timeline. The kid scrubs back and forth. Doesn’t guess — watches.
The kid is the editor of every cut. Authorship lives with the human.
Pick a film shape and the studio scaffolds the right primitives: scene templates, transition library, music selection, credits format. The kid can switch shapes mid-project — the engine adapts.
A 30-second-to-three-minute story told with hand-drawn or AI-illustrated frames. The shape every kid asks for first — the most worked examples, the most wizards. Pixar-short scale, not Pixar-budget.
If your kid wants to make their own Piper, Paperman, or a Saturday-morning cartoon opening.
A two-to-four-minute film cut to a song the kid picks. The studio handles beat-locking; the kid picks the shots and the visual arc.
If your kid is the family AUX-cord captain.A 60-90-second teaser for a real or invented project. Heavy on rhythm, title cards, and the one perfect shot. Good first project — constrained and finishable in a weekend.
If your kid memorizes movie trailers and re-edits them in their head.Photos, clips, and titles assembled into a one-minute story. Family travel recap, art-class highlight reel, "the summer we got the dog."
If your kid wants to make grandparents cry on demand.Real-world frames (LEGO, clay, drawings, people) imported and assembled into a film with proper timing and music. The studio handles the editing; the kid handles the camera.
If your kid’s last birthday gift was a tripod.Every wizard is a single named recipe. The kid runs arrange-timeline; the AI proposes the file changes; the kid keeps or reviews. The Movie track ships seven recipes — here are six that come up first.
Drops a new scene block onto the timeline with a setting, time of day, and viewpoint. The kid names it; Inkie scaffolds the opening shot and the surrounding cuts.
The core film-editing surface. Reorders scenes and shots, retimes cuts, fades the music in or out. The kid says "tighten the open," Inkie proposes three different pacings, the kid picks one.
Adds a named character with a look, a voice, and a one-line motivation. Used by every shot they appear in. The kid sketches the character in the studio if they want; Inkie cleans the lines.
A character speaking line that ties to a scene + shot. The kid writes the line; Inkie picks the right delivery cadence and lip-sync timing.
Layers a music bed under a scene or the whole film. The kid picks mood (sleepy / urgent / wistful); Inkie proposes three royalty-clean tracks; the kid picks one.
A visual effect on a shot or transition. Flash, shake, slow-mo, swirl, ink-bleed. The kid says what they want it to feel like; Inkie previews three options and the kid picks one.
Plus pick-genre (the starting shape; see below) and parental-controls. The full Movie-track recipe shelf.
Underneath the chat, the studio runs a timeline that thinks about pacing for the kid — and a quiet quality-check loop that watches engineering health. Both surface as read-only chips in the drawer.
The film’s spine, visible. Scenes, shots, dialogue, music, transitions, all laid out on one strip the kid can scrub. The most kid-readable timeline editor we’ve seen — no track count, no professional-suite menu, just colored blocks the kid drags.
The drawer shows a small status row: structure ok, performance watch: 4K asset, audio peaks clean, style consistent. No code to read. No errors to fix manually.
Only the most recent AI change can be undone. Intentionally simple. The kid clicks Undo last; the film rolls back to before the last AI proposal. Cleaner mental model than git for an 8-year-old.
The kid’s drawer reorganizes the project into four kid-readable phases. Make is where they direct the AI. Test is the preview play. Review is the change-summary plus Keep / Review / Undo. Ship is the parent-approval checklist before publishing.
The Game track is anchored by Theo. The Movie track is waiting on its first finished public film. We have a kid in the pipeline today; their movie is in the parent-approval queue. As soon as it ships, this section fills with a real URL you can watch.
Want to be the first family with a Movie-track project on this page? Buy the Movie track today — write us and we’ll feature your kid’s published film here, with their permission.
Movie track is $99 by itself. Or get all four creative tracks for $149 and let your kid pick the next adventure when this one’s done.
Open the studio. Drop the first shot. Score the opening beat. Ten minutes in, your kid will be picking between three AI proposals like they’ve been directing for years.
