Director's Chair Join the beta

Closed beta

Make an animated film.
By yourself.

Cast your characters, frame every shot, draft the motion, and cut it together — with the best AI models, at their own prices. The footage behind this text came out of it.

We invite people in small waves. No spam — one email when your seat is ready.

How it's made

From the set

We're making a show with it.

Every frame on this page comes from the animated series we're producing in Director's Chair — one person, one browser tab. Check out our work: Charlie Trauma VS The Apocalypse, live on YouTube.

A still from the series: a bloodied fighter stands over a chainsaw in the desert sun Charlie Trauma VS The ApocalypseWatch on YouTube ↗

How a shot gets made

From cast to cut.

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    Your keys. No markup from us.

    Director's Chair doesn't resell renders. You connect your own accounts with the model providers and pay them directly — no markup, no credits, no subscription to burn. The app shows the price before every render.

  2. The embedded agent in the_camp: asked to create a new shot and attach the camp master keyframe as context, it adds the shot, finds the keyframe and attaches it as @Context1

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    An assistant that knows your film.

    Ask it to "make shot 4 a low angle and re-roll it," "draft a continuation for the chase," or "why did this keyframe lose the mask?" It reads your storyboard, writes the prompts, and runs the renders — you stay the director.

    Built on MCP from the ground up: every tool the agent uses — scenes, shots, keyframes, renders, the timeline — is open to your own MCP client too.

    MCP & built-in agent

  3. Character sheet: a White Mask raider Character sheet: Cranial Character sheet: Gorilla Character sheet: Robot

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    Cast your characters.

    Every character gets a sheet. Tag them in a prompt — @Char.white_mask — and they show up on-model, shot after shot, instead of whoever the model imagines today.

  4. The 3D layout editor: the camp blocked out with the cast on their marks among tents, stakes and a motorcycle

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    Block it, then frame it.

    Stage the scene in 3D: drop in your cast, set their marks, dress the set, and put the camera where you want it. Director's Chair turns that blockout into the keyframe — on-model, in the composition you staged. Re-roll it or redraw it on another engine until it's the frame you pictured.

    Layout editor · the camp

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    Draft the performance.

    Roll quick, cheap takes to find the blocking and the timing — where she raises the fist, when she points, when the line lands. Keep the take that plays. On your own GPU, drafts are close to free.

    Draft · MiniMax H3

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    Then make her act.

    Hand the take you kept to Seedance as the reference. Same blocking, same timing — but now she performs the line: breath, anger, a voice that's hers every time she speaks. Turn the sound on for both. That's the difference.

    Finish · Seedance 2.0 · your character's cloned voice

  7. Picking the exact frame of barakas_emerges that the next shot continues from Control Video: turning a reference clip into a depth and pose guide for the next shot

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    Keep it rolling.

    Context for continuations, transitions and camera changes. Opinionated workflow presets let you create seamless transitions, or feed the model extra context for a controlled change.

  8. The timeline editor: a fight scene cut across video, dialogue, effects and music tracks

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    Cut the film.

    Trim, reorder, score and grade on a real timeline, then export the film. Everything stays editable — swap a take and the cut updates.

  9. V2V Clip Edit: a region drawn around one character to change just that part of the clip Touch Up: recolouring a shirt across the whole clip with smart select tracking
    Fix Voice Line: swapping one flubbed word for a clean take, video untouched

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    Manage hallucinations without expensive rerolls.

    AI-powered edits, touch-up, voice-overs and rework fix the small mistakes — without throwing away the whole clip.

Questions

Before you sign up.

What does "bring your own keys" mean?

You create accounts with the AI providers we use (fal and Atlas Cloud) and paste their API keys into Director's Chair. Renders bill to your accounts at the providers' own prices. The app walks you through it in about five minutes and tests each key with a real call before you rely on it.

So what does Director's Chair cost?

The beta is free. You pay only the providers, for what you render.

Who owns what I make?

You do. Your films, characters and renders are yours.

Do I need a powerful computer?

No. Director's Chair runs in your browser; the heavy lifting happens with the model providers. If you have — or rent — a GPU, you can point drafts at it to make them close to free.

When do I get in?

We're inviting people in small waves while we polish it. Join the waitlist and you'll get one email when your seat is ready.

Take the chair.