A creative studio for still images and moving stories

From Imagination to Images.From Images to Cinema.

Create expressive portraits, artistic compositions and original settings. Let each image stand on its own, or bring it to life through animation, dialogue and music to tell a short cinematic story.

Four steps, one creative vision

Build a world. Stay true to your vision.

Start with an idea, choose your subjects and compose a scene. Keep it as a finished image or develop it into a sequence. You guide the creative process, from the first image to the final sound.

01 · CONCEPT

Developing the visual concept

An idea takes shape.

A starting image, a creative intention and a visual direction to build on.

02 · CHARACTERS

Character reference images

Characters you recognise.

Use photographs and references to keep your characters consistent.

03 · SCENE

Composing a scene

A world to share.

Bring light, setting and characters together in a single composition.

04 · VIDEO & AUDIO

Adding motion and audio

The story comes alive.

Shape your story with movement, dialogue, music and synchronised sound.

Watch, then create

Atelier Cast Lab — Complete Video Tutorial

Follow Mara and Daniele in Venice: turn their photographs into a scene on the Grand Canal, add movement and music, then export your film. The step-by-step video tutorial is in English. The illustrated user guide is available in English.

Video tutorial — English.

From still image to motion

From images to cinema.

A creative world comes to life: light, characters and settings become a cinematic story.

Video gallery

Studies, conversations and worlds to explore.

Imagined conversations with great artists, fantastical settings and short visual poems: discover different ways to turn an idea into cinema.

A conversation with Anders Zorn

An imagined conversation with a master painter, told through faces, gestures and storytelling.

Technology and science fiction

Impossible worlds and imagined stories unfold as cinematic sequences.

A wish comes to life

A painted landscape comes alive in a short visual poem of snow, light and movement.

Caravaggio — or something new?

A playful exploration of the great masters: study a painter’s style and imagine something new.

Image gallery

Images to imagine. Stories to create.

Atelier Cast Lab is also a space for creating still images: portraits, landscapes, painterly artworks and imaginative compositions. Each image can be a complete work in its own right, or the starting point for a story in motion.

Atelier Cast Lab Web

Your creative studio in the browser.

Create characters, original settings and finished still images. Animate your scenes and add dialogue or a soundtrack, directly in your browser.

OPEN ATELIER CAST LAB WEB

Atelier Cast Lab for iOS

Creativity, close at hand.

A dedicated iPhone experience is in development. Availability and release details will be announced when confirmed.

iOS availability to be announced
Illustrated user guide — EnglishCast Lab Web illustrated guide · English
A creative journeyPhotography, painting, directing, video and music come together in one creative space.