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BudgetPixel Director · AI film director · Coming soonEvery idea deserves a director.

Tell it your idea in plain words. It writes the script, casts the faces, boards every shot and makes the film with you, one step at a time, and at every step you can ask for changes.

See how it works

Not on a Sunday

A woman in her seventies asks the greatest film director alive to make a movie about her neighbor’s leaf blower. He takes it dead seriously. Every face, voice, place and note of music was generated on BudgetPixel, in the steps below.

How it works

A film, one milestone at a time.

Director walks you through it in a chat and shows you the work at every step. Everything below comes from the film above.

  1. 1

    The story

    Tell Director your idea in plain words, as rough as you like. It comes back with a few different films you could make, says which one it would pick and why, and you choose.

    • Not on a Sunday

      ComedyIts pick

      A retired woman hires a legendary director to make a film about her neighbor’s leaf blower.

    • The Yellow Umbrella

      Heart

      Fifty years married and no photo of the day they met, so he makes her the film.

    • One Line

      Pure cinema

      A lighthouse keeper finds a letter dated tomorrow.

  2. 2

    The script

    Every line, every shot and every cut, timed out before anything is generated. Each role is written the way an actor gets it: what they want, what is in the way and what they do about it.

    INT. KITCHEN. SUNDAY, 8:04 A.M.

    DOTIt’s about my neighbor’s leaf blower.

    DIRECTORGo on.

    DOTEvery Sunday. Eight a.m.

    DIRECTORAnd what does she want?

    DOTSilence.

    DIRECTORIt’s a Western.

  3. 3

    The cast

    Real-looking faces for every role, shown in the actual scene, so you choose people and not descriptions. Once you pick, that face stays the same in every shot.

    Close-up portrait of Dot, a tiny woman in her seventies with tortoiseshell glasses on a chainClose-up portrait of the Director, a gaunt, towering man with long silver hair and a brass viewfinderClose-up portrait of Gary, a sunburnt, cheerful man with sunscreen on his nose and yellow ear defenders
  4. 4

    The world

    Every place, costume and prop is made once and kept, so the kitchen stays the kitchen and the hat stays the hat.

    The small lived-in kitchen where the film beginsA suburban cul-de-sac photographed like a frontier street
    A battered orange leaf blower on a workbenchA green garden hose with a brass nozzle on a workbenchA black gunslinger’s hat on a workbenchA tiny floral teacup and saucer on a workbench
  5. 5

    The storyboard

    One picture for every shot, played back at the length of the film. You see the whole movie as pictures before any video is made.

    Storyboard: the two of them across the tiny kitchen tableStoryboard: four photographs on the fridge doorStoryboard: Gary at the end of his driveway in a black hatStoryboard: Dot on her porch with a garden hose at her hipStoryboard: extreme close-up of Dot’s eyesStoryboard: extreme close-up of Gary’s eyes under the hat brimStoryboard: the water punching through a storm of leavesStoryboard: Gary soaked, holding the dead leaf blower
  6. 6

    The scenes

    Each scene is made as a draft with its acting, voices and cuts in one go, so you can check the performance first and pay for final quality only when you like it.

  7. 7

    The music

    A song written for your film, in a few versions to choose from by ear, with the cuts placed on its beat and its words.

    He rode in at eight with the sun at his back,Two strokes of thunder, a leaf on his track.The town drew its curtains, the dogs ran away,But nobody blows on the Lord’s own day.

  8. 8

    The final cut

    Transitions, titles, sound and captions, then the finished film in 1080p, with the same performances you approved.

    Finished frame: leaves burst from the blowerFinished frame: Dot fires the hose from her porchFinished frame: a jet of water floods the orange leaf blower

At every step

Give it notes like you would a person.

Every step ends with a review. Say what you would change, in plain words, and it remakes that part and keeps the rest.

“He needs a hat.”

A note from the film itself. One picture changes and the hat stays on for the rest of the movie.

Gary at the end of his driveway, bareheadedThe same picture with a black hat on his head

“Show the fight in more detail, how the hose overpowers the blower.”

A note we gave on the first cut. It became new shots, fitted to the same song.

The water punches through a storm of leaves in the middle of the streetA jet of water floods the leaf blower

Who it’s for

Storytellers

You have a film in your head and no crew. Bring the idea and direct it.

Brands and small businesses

A commercial with real-looking people and a real story, made in an afternoon of decisions.

Creators

Series with characters who stay the same, from one episode to the next.

Questions

What is BudgetPixel Director?

Director is an AI film director you work with in a chat. You give it an idea and it plans and makes a short film with you, one step at a time: the story, the script, the cast, the storyboard, the scenes, the music and the final cut. It is coming soon.

How is it different from an AI video generator?

A video generator gives you one clip for each prompt. Director plans a whole film. It keeps the same faces, places and props across every shot, writes the dialogue, makes the music, cuts everything together and shows you each step so you can change it.

Do I need to know how to write prompts?

No. You talk to Director in plain words, the way you would talk to a person directing your film. It writes the technical prompts for you.

Can I change things along the way?

Yes. Every step ends with a review. You can ask for a different face, a new line, another song or a longer scene, and it remakes that part and keeps the rest.

Can I use my own characters?

Director can create new characters for your film or cast the ones you already have on BudgetPixel, and the faces stay the same from shot to shot.

Was the film on this page made with AI?

Yes. Every face, voice, place, shot and note of music in Not on a Sunday was generated on BudgetPixel, in the same steps Director will take you through.

When can I use it?

Director is coming soon. Press Notify me and we will tell you the day it opens.

Bring the idea.

Director is coming soon. Press Notify me and we will tell you the day it opens.