Hand-drawn animated shorts
You send us your photographs and a small note about the story. Kirsten draws every frame by hand. We animate the result into a ten, twenty, or thirty-minute short — yours to keep, watch, and pass along by private link.
The process
Drop the images below — the blurry ones, the deleted-and-restored ones, the group shots where someone looks away. Tell us, in a paragraph, what the story is.
We share a private storyboard inside your account — six to ten frames, drawn by Kirsten, that show the shape of the film before we animate. You leave notes; we adjust.
By hand, at the long table, over two to four weeks. Frame by frame — no rotoscope, no AI in-betweens. The thing you watch is the thing she drew.
1080p MP4, plus a 4K master on the Long tier. A small printed colophon ships separately — the title card, the dedication, and the file numbers, if you'd like one for the shelf.
The three lengths
01 / 03
10 minutes
A small one. The trip you keep telling friends about, or the year your dog moved in. Long enough to land, short enough to send by text.
02 / 03
20 minutes
Twice the room. The wedding day, the year of firsts, the move across the country. The format that holds a real story without rushing the slow parts.
03 / 03
30 minutes
The long one. A whole decade if you want it. Built for anniversaries, retirements, and small films you'll watch every winter for a long time.
After you order
We don't take photographs on this page. The moment your order clears, we email you a private link to a studio that lives only for your film — not indexed, not shared. Inside, you upload up to twenty-four photographs, leave us a note, and watch each storyboard frame land as Kirsten finishes it.
Limited on purpose — no chat queue, no live messaging, just the work. We read every submission personally. A first storyboard frame arrives within two working days; we don't begin the animation until you approve it.
Made by a small studio of two.
Unsure which length? Write to us.