I've been making things since 2006. Director, art director, animator — the job has different names depending on the project, but it's always been the same thing: figuring out what something should look like before anyone builds it.
Pre-production is the hardest part of filmmaking and the least visible. You're trying to hold the whole film in your head — casting, locations, shot design — before a single frame exists. Professionals solve it with massive crews, breakdown sheets, and reference libraries built over weeks. Independent filmmakers solve it by guessing and hoping the guess was right.
I got tired of guessing. I wanted to see my film before I shot it.
PrePrompt is the tool I built. It takes a script and turns it into a complete pre-production package: characters, sets, props, a shot-by-shot storyboard, a rough cut of the whole film. Script in. Animatic out.
The AI does the extraction, the generation, the sequencing. You direct. Every decision about what your characters look like, what your locations feel like, how your shots are framed — that's yours. The AI builds from your choices. It doesn't make them for you.
I'm based in Los Angeles. This is my fourth major project as a solo developer and my first as a filmmaker-first builder. The studio is called Inner Circle. The legal entity is Cloud Creator LLC, incorporated in Wyoming.
PrePrompt is built for filmmakers. Not everyone. That scope — film, pre-production, script to animatic — is where the tool stays.
— Wes Kandel