Stickman Studio

Write a story. Get a narrated stickman video. Everything runs on your Mac.

Stickman Studio turns whatever you write (a story, a script, an idea to explain, a poem, rough notes or just a topic) into a finished short video: a director's plan you can edit, a stick-figure drawing for every shot, a narrator's voice, camera moves, captions and optional background music, exported as an MP4 for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Reels or YouTube.

Nothing is uploaded and there's no account or API key: open-source models do the work, on your Mac. Optionally, connect a free Cloudflare account to draw shots in seconds instead of about a minute.

How it works

1. Write: anything. Pick vertical (9:16) or wide (16:9), a length (30 s to 3 min), a style (or Auto), a narrator, the music, and where to make it (this Mac or Cloudflare).

2. Review the plan: an AI director writes a shot-by-shot plan shaped by what you wrote: a story is told in order with its dialogue kept, a script keeps its words, a topic gets a hook and a payoff. Edit any line, scene, camera move or caption, add or remove shots, or ask for a rewrite.

3. Make the video: approve the plan and every shot is drawn, the narration recorded, and the video edited together: cuts timed to the voice, camera moves, subtitles, and music that dips under the narration. Redraw any shot you don't like; only the changed shots are made again.

Styles

Classic · Light Black stick figure on pure white, one red accent Classic · Dark White stick figure on black, one glowing cyan accent Studio Tech "Zeke" (red beanie, yellow t-shirt) in a bright studio with floating glass UI Cinematic Story Zeke in full-colour scenes with cinematic light Storybook A children's picture book: soft watercolour and pencil on cream paper Comic book Bold ink lines, flat colours and dramatic angles

The styles and the explainer arc come from Stickman Video Director, adapted from prompts for a cloud video model to a fully local, image-based pipeline.

Requirements

• macOS 14+ on Apple silicon, 16 GB of memory or more recommended.

• About 10 GB of disk for the models, downloaded once on first launch (16 GB if you also add Gemma 4 12B).

• Time: on an M3 Pro with 18 GB, a 60-second video takes about 20 minutes. Drawing is the slow part (about a minute a shot); planning takes under a minute, the voice seconds, the edit a minute or two. You can keep using your Mac meanwhile.

Qwen3 4B Instruct 2507 (or Gemma 4 12B) Writes the plan 2.5 GB Apache 2.0 FLUX.2 klein 4B Draws the shots 7.1 GB with its text encoder and decoder Apache 2.0 Kokoro 82M Reads the narration 354 MB Apache 2.0

Build from source

See the developer guide. In short:

pnpm install pnpm tauri dev # needs Rust, cmake and uv