Melies - Transform your ideas into Hollywood movies with AI

Hey Product Hunters! 👋 I'm Romain, the founder of Melies, an all-in-one AI Filmmaking software built for storytellers, creators, and filmmakers 🎬 Cinema has always been my passion, and with the latest AI advancements, I’m building the tool I’d have dreamed of as a young, aspiring filmmaker. Today, the best AI tools for film creation are spread across multiple platforms. Melies simplifies this by bringing everything together in one dedicated platform, integrating top AI tools and models: GPT-4 and Claude for screenwriting, FLUX for image generation, Runway, Kling, HailuoAI Minimax and Luma Dream Machine for video generation, ElevenLabs for sound effects and voices, and more. (See integrations) With Melies, you can go from an idea to a movie without juggling multiple subscriptions or tools. One of the biggest challenges with AI filmmaking is also maintaining consistency in characters and scenes—a critical part of any movie. Melies is focused on solving these issues by making sure each character and scene remains cohesive throughout your film. Here's how Melies incorporates AI at every step to make the process easier: 💡 Idea Generation: Get inspired with AI-generated movie ideas 👤 Character Development: Build in-depth character bibles and backstories ✍️ Screenwriting: Write screenplays step-by-step with AI support 🎨 Storyboarding: Generate visually rich storyboards for each scene 🎬 Image & Video Generation: Generate your scenes with images and videos to bring each scene to life 🎶 Sound Generation: Animate with realistic voices, sound effects, and background music Check out Melies here : https://melies.co 🌟 I’m excited to see the stories you’ll tell with Melies. If you have any questions or feedback, I'd be happy to answer here!

This is stunning ! Does Melies work only fort short movies or long movies as well ? Is there a time limit ?

Pretty badass indeed. Looks like something I would see featured on Matt Wolfe's YouTube channel. Send it!! Amazing work @romainsimon

Great work @romainsimon . I once made a small documentary and can appreciate all the time that this would save (maybe more for a fiction story though)

cool if you add some demo videos to this launch page. how many minutes of video can it generate ? is the subscription per month or per credits? this is a massive wrapper of a lot of models, it's gonna cost

Great work! I love your landing page :)

This is wild, Romain! 🎥 Melies sounds like it's gonna shake up the indie film scene big time. As someone who's always had a million movie ideas but zero budget, this all-in-one AI approach is seriously intriguing. The character consistency feature is brilliant - that's always been a major pain point. I'm curious though, how does the AI handle more nuanced storytelling elements? Like, can it capture subtle character development or complex themes? Either way, it's exciting to see tools that could potentially democratize filmmaking. Might have to dust off that sci-fi script I've been procrastinating on!

I’ve been testing this out— for filmmakers and creatives this is one of the most streamlined approaches I’ve used. We create AI stories every day at The Monster Library and this could be the all in one solution we have been looking for.

@romainsimon congrats on your launch! Melies looks amazing, as AI video generation gets better and better I truly believe big studios will start using software like this. My dad is a huge movie guy, I'll be sure to show him this.

:/ just a waitlist sign up, when do you guys actually launch?

Nice one Romain ! Keep pushing :)

signup process is too complicated ... send us a message on X, wait? I want to try is quickly not do all the marketing for you and then see if it works

Melies looks incredible. I love the idea of putting all the tools for AI film making under 1 tool. This is so important and efficient. Just signed up for the wailist. Can't wait to try it. May I know when will it be out of beta?

Wow man! I can spend a big amount of hours there. It's super impressive cause it shows us we only need to focus on the idea. Also loved the discord login! Wish you all the best

Hey Romain, Congrats on the launch. Anything that is trying to bring all the different stages of filmmaking under one roof has my vote. And as a user, I really loved the UI/UX as well as the tools integrated inside.

Fantastic! I'm a bit of a luddite when it comes to AI but this is one of the best concepts and uses for it that I've came across. Tremendous work! Congratulations and I'm sure it's going to be very successful for you, and a great help to anyone who has every thought about bringing their ideas to life.

What can I say? It's just impressive!

Gr8

How does 3D Pixar Character Animation go? As I am creating a video series