A multi-agent studio
Chinese classics, reborn as film — by a crew of AI agents.
MoVox is a pipeline of specialized AI agents, orchestrated by LangGraph. They read a Chinese classical novel, voice its characters, paint every scene in ink-wash, and animate it into a chapter-length film — while a human directs and reviews every step. It all runs locally, on open models.
The pipeline
Five agents. One human.
A crew of specialized AI agents does the work; a person directs and signs off at every checkpoint. The whole line is orchestrated by LangGraph.
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Reader Agent
Parses a Chinese classic into scenes, narration, and every character’s lines.
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Actor Agent
Mints a distinct, consistent voice for each character, then narrates the chapter.
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Painter Agent
Composes an ink-wash keyframe for every scene, faithful to the text.
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Animator Agent
Brings each keyframe to motion — seconds of living illustration.
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Editor Agent
Cuts it into a subtitled film — one MP4 per chapter.
It all runs locally on open, permissively-licensed models — no cloud, no gatekeepers, no per-frame fees. Built for the Chinese classical canon it began with; the results are yours to share.
See it
A short demo.
Where I stand
Not slop. Craft.
The fear says AI flattens art and takes the jobs of the people who make it. I don’t buy it. A model has no taste — a person does. MoVox is one person’s direction amplified by a crew of tireless specialists: every scene is chosen, reviewed, and signed off by a human. The storyteller doesn’t vanish — they get a studio.
Read the full stance →Building in the open
Dev Journal
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A text file goes in, a film comes out
What MoVox actually is, end to end. Five AI agents, one human signing off at every checkpoint, all of it running on one machine on my desk — plus an honest account of which parts work today and which parts are still a gray rectangle.
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AI is just the next tool
Two halves of one stance: AI isn't coming for your job, and what it makes isn't slop. An engineer on why the next tool is just that — a tool — and how craft survives, drawn from building MoVox.
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The book was too heavy
How my love of the Chinese classics began — a Journey to the West too heavy for a second-grader — and why, decades later, I'm teaching a computer to read those stories to my kids in my own voice.