Draw the story
MakeReal.TV turns a story you draw into a cartoon short. Draw one line across the eight beats: up means more is at stake, down means calm. A good story usually climbs to a peak and comes back down. A flat line is a boring story, and you can hear it. Not sure where to start? Pick a story shape like Icarus or Man in a hole.
Then cast it like the drums on MakeReal.Music. Tap a character into the beats they're in, or drag across several. Pick a place for each beat and drop in effects from the FX drawer: a boom, a zap, rain, a whoosh, slow motion or applause. Words under a beat show up as its caption.
Press PLAY and the TV plays it. Each beat draws itself on, and your line becomes the song and the camera work: the higher the stakes, the busier the drums and the faster the cuts. The line runs under the TV while it plays, so tap a beat to jump to it. MAKE REAL, MAKE IT OLD and MAKE IT WEIRD restyle the whole short, and pressing one again takes it back.
Your story lives in its link. COPY STORY LINK sends the story so someone can keep working on it. On the TV, COPY LINK sends the finished short and DOWNLOAD VIDEO saves an MP4. Every beat is a real MakeReal.Art drawing and the song is a real MakeReal.Music song, so you can redraw a beat or rework the tune over there.
Nothing is uploaded and no AI runs on this site. AI assistants can write stories as links too: makereal.tv/llms.txt. WATCH SHORTS has the demo shorts and the video editor. Privacy · Terms
What's on
MakeReal.TV plays MakeReal shorts: a few MakeReal.Art drawings as scenes, with one MakeReal.Music song underneath, cut on the beat. The whole short lives in its link. Nothing is uploaded and no AI runs on this site.
A cartoon is just pictures shown fast. Pause a short and press EXPLODE to see them, then slide the pictures a second from 1 to 24 to watch a slideshow turn into a movie.
Under HOW IT MOVES, give any scene a camera move like a Ken Burns, a pan or a punch in on the beat, and pick how it comes in: a cut, a dissolve, a wipe, an iris or a whip pan. SHOW THE CAMERA draws the camera as a box on the whole picture, so you can see what it sees.
Keys: space plays and pauses, comma and period step one picture, the arrow keys change channel.
To make one, tap MAKE A SHORT and add MakeReal.Art pictures and a MakeReal.Music song. Any AI assistant can write a short too: ask it for a MakeReal short and point it at makereal.tv/llms.txt. Privacy · Terms
How it works
Drop in a video and press MAKE REAL. Your browser listens for loud bits, watches for movement and scene changes, and suggests a few short edits you can tweak and download. It finds movement, sound and scene changes, not necessarily the best punchline.
Your video never leaves your device. MakeReal.TV does not upload or save your footage. Everything happens in this browser tab. Privacy · Terms
Free, no account, no watermark. Works best in a recent Chrome, Edge or Safari. Some phones and some file types can't export yet; we'll tell you if yours can't.