Block the shot, then make the frame.

Build a set from one picture, stand the cast in it and move the camera. Sketch the move for free, and render the frame only when you choose.

Night Ferry’s first shot on the Stage bench, its filmed take playing: the deckhand in a yellow oilskin and the narrator in a red scarf walking the wet quay at night, the lit ferry behind them; beside it the camera, the night look and the renders.

A place from a picture Laid back on the ground and the far scene. Free.
Set where it ends A figure walks there as the camera moves.
Sketch, free A still or a short video of the move, on your Mac.
Nothing spent Until you press, with its price on the press.

Opens on a demo. Night Ferry: The quay at night, its cut of six shots, its filmed take and its two voices. Free, on your Mac, nothing to set up.

A place from one picture.

Start from a picture… lays it back on the ground and the far scene, so the camera can travel through it, free on your Mac. Set it as a Room or Outdoors, add Rain or Snow, and pick day, dusk or night. In Night Ferry’s demo, the quay’s own lamps light whoever stands in it. Make it a 3D place turns it into a 3D place on your own key, priced first.

The Stage bench with Night Ferry’s first shot, the quay: its filmed take playing, the deckhand and the narrator walking on the wet quay at night with the lit ferry behind them; the shot’s plan and the cut-outs on the left, the camera, the look and the renders on the right.

The cast, the props, the pose.

The project’s cast stand in the set as figures you can pose, and real people stand in it as cut-outs from a picture. Add someone or a prop, then set its facing, size and depth. Ask in the chat and Robin places, poses and blocks with the same presses.

Pose by hand drag a dot on a hand, a foot or the head.
Or by key 1 to 5 to stand, sit, wave, point or walk.
Set where it ends the place a figure or a prop moves to while the camera moves.

A camera you move.

Orbit, dolly and height; a 24, 35, 50 or 85 mm lens; a 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1 frame. A move runs 3, 5 or 8 seconds from a start to an end keyframe. Set view and Camera view switch between looking at the set and through the lens, and the shot list holds every shot with its time, its frame and its camera.

Night Ferry in Set view: the quay’s picture laid back on the ground and the far scene, the camera’s frame and its move drawn in the set, and the camera’s own view in the corner; the shot list open from the bar with the plan’s four shots, each with its time, its frame and its camera.

Sketch free, render when you choose.

Sketch and Sketch the move make a still or a short video of the shot, free on your Mac. Render a still draws the frame from the cast’s own pictures; Render a video follows the sketch, so people go where you set them. Renders are paid on your own key and show their price first. Robin offers a render and never starts one on its own.

On to Film.

Make the film puts every shot onto a Film timeline at its time, as its kept take, free on your Mac. A toast says when it is ready, with Open in Film. Render every shot as video renders the rest together, priced first.

The price before you press.

Every make says what it costs and whose it is before it runs. Above the limit you set, it waits for your yes.

Free, on this Mac

A place from one picture
The cast, cut-outs, props and poses
The camera and every shot
Sketch and Sketch the move
Make the film

On your Claude plan or your own key

Render a still and Render a video
Make it a 3D place
Render every shot as video

Works with what you use.

Everything Robin works with ›

Stage, and eleven more apps beside it.

Robin is one app on your Mac: $39 for the first 100 licences, then $59, paid once, for two Macs and every update.

Download for macOS Buy Robin

How Stage works, in the docs ›