AI film studio · short drama & brand film
Shot without a camera.
Finished like film.
Zhulu writes, boards, generates and finishes short-form drama and brand films — 9:16 or 16:9, native dialogue, delivered as broadcast-grade masters.
Selected work
Four films, four problems
Each project below was made against a real brief with a fixed runtime, a fixed format and a client watching the frames. Hover to preview, click for the case.
How it is made
Directed like a film.
Checked like a film.
Generation is the cheap part. The work is deciding what each shot must do, keeping a face identical across nineteen shots, and rejecting the ones that fail.
Every project is logged shot by shot — model, prompt, seed, parameters — so a series can be continued by anyone on the team, months later.
Inside the studioScript & beat sheet
Adapted to the format's rhythm — hook, reversal, cliffhanger — before anything is generated. The edit is locked at this stage, not after.
Boards & identity lock
Character sheets, three angles per face, location frames. Every later shot inherits from these.
Shot generation
20–25 steps per shot at production resolution, with reference frames per character and one primary movement per shot.
Frame-level QC
Hands, faces, signage, product. Automated checks on dialogue transcription and frame defects; anything that fails is regenerated.
Finish & deliver
Grade, mix to −16 LUFS, subtitles, AI disclosure, 2× upscale where needed. Master plus clean master.
What we produce
Built for delivery,
not for a demo reel
Short-form drama
Serialised vertical drama, 60–120 s per episode, with native dialogue, character lock and subtitles.
- 9:16 · 1080 × 1920
- 11–19 shots per episode
- Episode pack + clean master
Brand & campaign film
15–60 s film for a launch, an event or an annual meeting — concept, boards, grade and mix included.
- 16:9 / 9:16 / 1:1
- No on-screen text unless approved
- Broadcast loudness
Product integration
A single SKU held identical across an episode: packaging, sheen, length, label.
- Client photography as reference
- Frame-by-frame continuity check
- B-roll and cutdowns
Character & wardrobe
Character sheets and costume design that survive the camera — for series, lookbooks and stylised film.
- Three angles per face
- Wardrobe and prop sheets
- Reusable asset library
Animated drama · 漫剧
2D animated serials built to the Chinese short-drama rhythm, with a character library per series.
- Hook in 3 s · cliffhanger at 90 s
- Keyframe + mask workflow
- 2× upscale to 1152 × 2016
Finish & localisation
Finishing for footage that already exists: grade, mix, subtitles, upscale, re-version for other platforms.
- 4K upscale
- EN / 中文 subtitles
- −16 LUFS delivery standard
Short formats
Five-second tests, run constantly
Short internal tests used to keep the pipeline honest: lighting, product handling, period looks, human performance. Not client work — kept visible because the failures are as useful as the results.