“Hat Day”
The Captain declares Hat Day in an enormous tricorn. The Chief won't wear one, until the vent he fixes blows the tricorn off her head and onto his.
Desktop appReelwright Studio for Linux, Windows and macOS
Write the script.
Write the script.
Reelwright makes the cartoon.
Reelwright is a studio for animated episodes that runs on your own computer. Write a scene as a screenplay, and it stages it on 3D sets with flat, cel-shaded characters, cuts the camera coverage, voices and lip-syncs every line, and renders the finished cartoon. Change your mind about a moment, and it directs just that stretch again.
Version 0.13.0 · out now for Linux, Windows and macOS
- Runs
- On your computer, offline, or in your browser
- Director
- Built in, or your own Claude; no API key needed
- Voices
- Kokoro, or your own cast
- Lip sync
- Rhubarb, every line
- Output
- MP4, ProRes, frames and stems
How it works
From page to picture in three steps
You write. Reelwright does the staging, the camera work, the voices and the render, and shows you every decision so you can change it.
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Write
Write the episode in Fountain, the plain-text screenplay format. As you type, Studio reads it the way the director will: who walks where, what gets picked up, and anything it can't stage yet.
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Direct
Press Direct. Reelwright blocks every scene on your sets, performs the action, and cuts it into shots that follow film grammar. Play the cut, and where a moment is not right, select it, press R and give a note: just that stretch is directed again.
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Render
Kokoro voices every line, Rhubarb syncs the mouths, and Godot renders the episode to an MP4 with captions, mixed to broadcast loudness.
Inside Reelwright Studio
One app, from the first line to the final frame
Write, design, direct, edit, record and render in one place, with your show's look, cast and sets a click away.
Script
Write it, and see it read
Beside every line, what the director will stage and what it won't. The show's memory keeps every writer on its story.
Script and read-along
Director
Staging from the action lines
Walks, hand-offs, gestures, floating, effects aimed where the script says, and coverage cut to film grammar. Then re-direct any moment with a note.
Director and staging
Timeline
Play it live, edit it to the frame
Roll a cut, slip a shot, ease a camera move, and restage a scene from above. Ctrl+Z takes it back.
Timeline and playback
Previs
Block and shoot it in 3D
Step into the episode at the playhead, look through the shot, move its camera, and drag the cast onto their marks.
Previs in 3D
Cast
Characters of any kind
A cat, a robot, a slug or a talking kettle, made from a sentence with no model, and directed like anyone else.
Characters of any kind
Look
A look of your own
Describe it or show it pictures, choose from four directions, and tune every part live on your own cast in the style lab.
The style lab
Showrunner · optional
Claude, if you want a partner
Use the Claude you already have, through claude.ai, the Claude app or Claude Code, with no API key, and talk the show through. Every change is a proposal you approve.
The showrunner
Render
A finished episode, ready to share
Title card to credits, voiced and mixed, as an MP4 with captions, or a ProRes master with its stems. The same show renders the same frames every time.
Rendering and export
Reelwright Runner
Your own machine does the work
Use Studio in a browser, and let your computer, or a few of them, render, voice and draw the previews.
Reelwright RunnerMade with Reelwright
Watch what it makes
Episodes of the example show, Marigold Salvage Co., rendered by Reelwright from their screenplays.
“The Lighthouse”
The cold open Reelwright was first proven on. Otto's scanner finds a lighthouse in deep space, and the Chief would rather stay down behind his console.
The gravity hiccups: everyone floats, and lands on the THUD. 
“The music box bobs up out of the Captain's hands.” 
Otto walks round the furniture to hand the Chief his wrench. 
A cleaning drone flies out of its crate and into the Captain's palm. 
Three at the galley, staged so the camera keeps every face. 
“Otto plants her feet on the Captain and pushes off.” 
Walk and talk: the camera pans with Otto to the core. 
Otto as a 3D figure beside the 2D Chief, in one shot.
What's in the box
Everything runs on your computer
On your computer, no account and no cloud: an episode is made on your own machine. Here is what you get, and what is still to come.
The whole studio, local
Studio, the director, the compiler and the renderer all run on your machine. Making, playing and rendering an episode needs no network.
Voices and lip sync
Kokoro speaks every line on your machine, and Rhubarb syncs the mouths. The voice model, about 330 MB, downloads once, the first time you voice a show. Or record your own cast in the booth, line by line.
Claude, optional Your own Claude
Connect the Claude you already have, with no API key: add Reelwright to claude.ai or the Claude app, or let Claude Code on your computer run it on your plan. Directing, re-directing a moment, the show's memory, the style lab and writing all work through it, and what it does shows in Studio as it does it. In claude.ai and Claude Desktop, its proposals show as Reelwright's card, to approve right in the chat. A key is an option too: it stays on your computer, you pay Anthropic directly, and budgets cap the spend.
Your show, in plain files
A show is a folder you keep wherever you like: readable specs, Fountain scripts and voice takes, in a git repository where every approved change is a commit.
A demo show to start from
Marigold Salvage Co. comes with Studio: a crew, a ship and episodes to watch and change, their previews made, so the first one plays the moment you open it. Or start a show of your own from its kit.
Updates on your terms
Studio checks once a day whether a newer version is out, and says so. On Linux it updates itself when you press Update, from a signed feed, and puts the old version back if the new one does not start. Nothing is installed until you ask, and you can switch the check off.
Free to try on the web: the same Studio, on the same core, runs in your browser, and your own computer can do its rendering. Sign up at reelwright.diy/app with a code sent to your email; there is no password and no card. A free account has daily and monthly limits on renders and storage, and Settings › Account shows your use of each.
Not signed yet: Studio comes without a Microsoft signature on Windows or Apple's notarization on a Mac, so your computer asks you to confirm the first time it opens. The install steps say what to choose.
Make your first episode
Open the demo show, change a line, press Direct, and watch it play.