From story to screen in minutes.
DramaFoundry is your complete AI film studio for vertical short drama series. Turn manuscripts, novels, or original screenplays into captivating episodes with consistent characters, emotional acting, and cinematic sound.
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DramaFoundry is hosted live for the Fornace team. Your personal team account is pre-provisioned via your @fornaceaibot key.
The creative journey in 5 simple steps
Bring your story to the director's table
Start with whatever you have: an uploaded novel chapter, a raw screenplay, or a story outline. DramaFoundry reads your prose like an experienced showrunner.
📖 Smart Story Graph
The story engine automatically maps character relationships, timeline chronology, and dramatic stakes without manual tagging.
⚡ Episodic Beat Breakdown
Chapters are carved into bite-sized 60-to-90 second vertical episodes, each composed of 12 to 20 intense visual beats with cliffhangers.
✍️ Human Drama, Not Code
No need to invent complex model prompts: write dialogue and character actions naturally. DramaFoundry writes the visual directions for you.
Cast your actors & lock their look forever
The biggest challenge in AI video has always been faces morphing between shots. DramaFoundry solves this with visual identity sheets that anchor your characters across every scene.
🎭 3-Angle Character Bible
AI generates studio-grade turnaround sheets (frontal, 45°, profile) locking facial structure, skin tone, hair, and signature wardrobe.
🔒 Zero Face Morphing
Visual identity tokens are injected into every camera angle, ensuring your protagonist looks like the exact same person throughout the entire series.
🏞️ Location References
Set up architectural environments (penthouses, rainy streets, coffee bars) once. Every scene remembers its lighting and setting.
Direct the visual storyboard grid
You are in the director's chair. For each dramatic beat, DramaFoundry generates candidate storyboard grids showing different camera framings.
📐 Cinematic Framing Choices
Review 2x2 and 3x3 candidate grids: intimate emotional close-ups, dynamic medium shots, or atmospheric environmental angles.
👆 One-Click Selection
Click the visual frame that captures the emotion best. You can re-roll any individual shot until the mood is perfect.
📱 Vertical 9:16 Native
Every frame is composed natively for mobile screens, keeping actors and emotional reactions centered in the safe zone.
Bring the frame to life with motion & voice
With keyframes approved, DramaFoundry generates fluid video and synchronized speech using the best generative models in the industry.
🗣️ MiniMax H3 Max Turbo
The gold standard for dialogue: mouth motion, facial acting, and speech audio are synthesized together in perfect lip-sync.
🎬 Wan 2.7 & Kling 3.0
Delivers cinematic camera sweeps, atmospheric rain and lighting effects, and intense character motion without artifacts.
🎙️ Emotional Voice Casting
Cast authentic Italian or English voices via AuK (Apple Silicon native 8-bit) and Fish Audio, matched to each character's age and personality.
🔊 ThinkSound Local Foley
Room tone, footsteps, and subtle cinematic beds generated locally on Apple Silicon Metal 4, mixed under voice at a clean -33 LUFS.
The premiere: automated assembly & captions
DramaFoundry assembles your finished video into an export-ready MP4 complete with dynamic animated subtitles.
✨ Word-Highlighted Subtitles
Dynamic karaoke-style subtitles burned via Remotion with ASR word timestamps so viewers never miss a word on social media.
🔄 Checkpoint Resumption
Changed your mind about one line? You only re-render that single beat. DramaFoundry instantly re-assembles the episode without touching completed takes.
📦 Complete Asset Package
Export finished vertical 1080x1920 MP4s ready for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts, with all individual clips saved.
Two ways to work with DramaFoundry
🎨 The Visual Web Studio
A beautiful, point-and-click browser workspace at dramafoundry.fornace.net. Ideal for visual storytelling: preview shots, audition voices, drag and drop characters, and watch episodes assemble live.
🤖 With Your Pi Coding Agent
Prefer conversation? The dramafoundry Pi skill connects your local terminal agent directly to the studio. Just tell Pi what you want: "Plan Episode 1 from my script, show me the character turnarounds, and render the first scene."
💡 The Golden Rule of Lip-Sync
MiniMax H3 generates mouth movement and voice audio together in harmony. Never try to replace or re-time the dialogue audio track after generation — keeping the original generated audio ensures lip-sync stays frame-perfect.