Stories
Picture-book stories, illustrated and narrated
A tale told page by page and read aloud, in shadow theatre, red paper-cut, layered paper or flat illustration. For bedtime, a class or a channel.
Film types: 1 · Example films: 4
The whole Chinese fable as Martens translated it in 1921: dyed-hide puppets on rods, a lamp-lit cloth, the fox walking ahead.
Example of Story Director16:9 · 102 s
Public-domain text from Wilhelm's Chinese Fairy Book, read whole; puppets made for the film.
Example films
Each film was directed, scored and rendered by a coding agent with one of our skills, from a short brief. Turn the sound on.
The whole fable read as Townsend translated it in 1867, in papercut: the race, the nap, the moral.
Example of Story Director16:9 · 78 s
Public-domain text from Project Gutenberg, read whole; pictures drawn for the film.
9:16: the archer shoots down nine of ten suns and his wife floats up to the moon, cut in China red with rosettes and a red banner.
Example of Story Director9:16 · 106 s
Public-domain text from Wilhelm's Chinese Fairy Book, the first part read word for word; abridged and marked so.
A year by the pond in papercut, summer to spring, quoting the tale's own lines and its last.
Example of Story Director16:9 · 102 s
Public-domain translation from Project Gutenberg, abridged and marked so on screen.
Film types
Each film type has one director, with its styles built in. Try any of them free first: Starter Director makes a 10–20 second film.
Picture books
A picture-book story, illustrated and narrated.
Story Director
A story told in pictures and a voice, page by page.
Built-in styles: Shadow Theatre · Red Paper-cut · Papercut · Flat World · Whiteboard
Built-in styles
Shadow Theatre
Coloured leather puppets on rods, behind a screen lit by an oil lamp.
Red Paper-cut
Chinese red paper-cut: one red on rice paper, round flowers, a banner of characters.
Papercut
Layered paper shapes with depth and shadow.
Flat World
Bright flat illustration that zooms from tiny to huge.
Try it free first
Describe it in a sentence: your agent makes a 10–20 second film with its own music. When you want the full film, the director here picks up the same project.
Questions
Can it tell a story I wrote?
Yes. Give it the text; the Story Director (in testing; not on sale yet) splits it into pages, illustrates each one and reads it with your recording or a synthetic voice.
Which looks can it use?
Shadow theatre, Chinese red paper-cut, layered paper, flat illustration and whiteboard drawing, each with its own way of moving.
Can it use a classic tale?
Yes, from a public-domain text. The examples are Aesop, Andersen and two Chinese tales in an English translation from 1921, read in full or marked as an excerpt.