Retell a fairy tale with your own Characters
The wolf gets a lawyer. The stepsister opens a shoe-repair shop. Take a tale everyone knows, cast it with your own Characters, and twist it until it is yours.
Free: make your Character and its Story as picture-only Slideshows. Real video comes with a plan.
How to retell a fairy tale with AI
Pick a public-domain fairy tale and make its Characters from a few words, in the Picture book Art style or any other. Ask the AI Director for your twist and it writes the Scenes. Free, it is a picture-only Slideshow. With a plan, narrate it for 40 Credits, or film it as Clips and put them together into an Episode.
Updated November 2026 · Free to start · Web and iPhone
Sample Clips
Real Clips from fictional sample series. Same Cast from shot to shot.
The Moon Boat (bedtime story) Goodnight, star
Example from our house series The Moon Boat, not a fairy tale Story.
A tale everyone knows, a twist only you would think of
The best retellings keep the shape people know and change one thing: who tells it, where it happens, or what the hero actually wanted. Name the tale and the twist in one line and the Director writes it.
Five slides or a full Episode
A fairy tale fits five slides beautifully: once upon a time, the problem, the trial, the twist, the ending. Free, that is a picture-only Slideshow. With a plan, add narration and music for 40 Credits, or film the Scenes as Clips.
Picture book
The Picture book Art style gives soft, illustrated pages.
Watercolor or Painted
Washy and gentle, or rich and old-masters dark.
Any other look
A fairy tale in the Comic or Real style can be the twist itself.
Public-domain tales, your own versions
Use the old tales, not any studio’s version of them: your own designs, your own songs left out, your own ending. Characters are adults. For a nightly story series, see bedtime stories; for epic quests, see fantasy series.
What you get, in counts
A fairy tale is a few Characters and five good slides. Every price is on the button before you press it.
Free, every day
One new Character a day and 4 pictures a day. Your Story comes as a picture-only Slideshow, so you can read the whole thing before you pay for anything.
40 Credits: a narrated Slideshow
Up to 5 slides with narration and music, on the web, with a plan.
25 Credits: a 5-second Clip
Filmed on H3 Turbo from your Characters. Five Clips put together as an Episode (0:25) come to 125 Credits, plus any Scene pictures the Story draws.
$39.99 a month: Creator
1,600 Credits: 64 HD H3 videos or 40 Slideshow Stories, from the same Credits. Starter is $19.99 for 800.
6 fairy tale ideas to start from
Press one and it lands in the idea box. Change a word or keep it; the Director takes it from there.
- 01The Wolf TestifiesThe wolf finally tells his side, to a jury of grandmothers.Use this idea
- 02Shoe RepairCinderella's stepsister opens a shoe-repair shop and ruins the ending.Use this idea
- 03The Piper ReturnsThe Pied Piper is hired again, this time by a city of pigeons.Use this idea
- 04Small ClaimsRumpelstiltskin takes the queen to small-claims court.Use this idea
- 05The PeaThe princess is a professional mattress tester, and the pea is her rival.Use this idea
- 06Beanstalk HOAThe giant at the top of the beanstalk files a noise complaint.Use this idea
From one line to Episode 01
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Cast the tale
Make the Characters from a few words. Pick Picture book or any Art style. They are adults and saved for the next tale.
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Name the twist
Ask the AI Director for the tale and your twist. It writes five slides or a full set of Scenes.
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Tell it or film it
Free as a picture-only Slideshow. With a plan, narrate it for 40 Credits or film it as Clips.
Questions, answered
Still curious? The guides go deeper.
Is it real video or a slideshow?
Free, you make picture-only Slideshows. With a plan, narrate them for 40 Credits or film real Clips and put them together into an Episode.
Which fairy tales can I retell?
Public-domain tales and folk tales. Use the stories, not a studio’s characters, designs or songs.
Is this for children?
The Characters are adults, and the twists are for everyone. For a nightly story series, see bedtime stories.
Can I put myself in the tale?
Yes. Add your own clear photo (17+) and you become a Character in the Picture book look.
What does it cost?
Free: your Characters and the Story as a picture-only Slideshow. With a plan, a narrated Slideshow is 40 Credits, a 5-second H3 Turbo Clip is 25, and a 5-Clip Episode (0:25) is 125, plus any Scene pictures the Story draws. Creator is $39.99 a month for 1,600 Credits.
More genres
Every genre- Bedtime storiesOriginal characters, a new gentle Episode every night.
Fantasy seriesA painterly realm with a party that persists.- Hermes, messenger of the gods, has been running late for three thousand years.Mythology seriesOld gods, new episodes, same faces.
Cast for this genre
Plan it as a full season with the AI series maker.
Guides for this genre
- Create a Character from wordsTo create a Character from words, describe the visible person first: face, silhouette, outfit and expression.
- Write a 60-second episodeSixty seconds is a complete episode if you stop treating it like a short film.
- What is a story world?A story world is the container a show lives in: the sets the cast returns to, the rules the story keeps, and the memory of what already happened.
Your fairy tale starts with one line.
Free: make your Character and its Story as picture-only Slideshows. Real video comes with a plan.