What it does

Melies describes itself as an all-in-one AI studio for taking a film from first idea to final cut. The site says it offers 42 focused tools that cover writing, storyboarding, casting, image and video generation, editing and sound, including an image generator, a video generator and a movie poster generator. For characters, there is a library of 150+ AI actors, and you can train a custom actor from a single reference photo and reuse it across images, videos and posters. Images can be turned into video clips of up to 10 seconds with camera movement presets and a library of cinematic effects, and a large set of visual styles can be applied in one click. The site says it connects to 30+ third-party models, naming families such as FLUX, Veo, Kling and Sora. Melies also ships a command-line package, installed with npm, that coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot can call to generate images, videos, posters and thumbnails. A documentation page is linked. The page tells visitors to choose a plan and links to a pricing page, but it states no prices.

Capabilities

42 tools for writing, storyboarding, casting, image and video generation, editing and sound
Library of 150+ AI actors, with custom actors made from one reference photo
Image-to-video with camera movement presets and clips up to 10 seconds
Style library for giving a project a consistent look
Access to 30+ third-party image and video models
Command-line toolkit for coding agents, installed with npm

When to use it

You want to turn a film idea into images, video clips or a poster without a studio
You need the same character to appear consistently across images and videos
You want to try several image and video models from one place
You want a coding agent to generate images, thumbnails or videos from the terminal