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A little wax. A whole world.

Crayon
Picture Book.
蜡笔
绘本。

Let a story live on textured paper. Indigo outlines, imperfect wax strokes and a page that really turns make room for a gentler kind of film.

For children’s stories, small everyday adventures and ideas that benefit from being drawn out.

Open the storybook
ON THE PAGEIvory paperIndigo inkWax redLeaf green

01 / THE SCREENING ROOM

Leo the Farmer

A day on the farm, told in crayon. The retained sample brings the paper, drawing and book motion together in one story.

2:46720P WEB PREVIEW24 FPS

WAX / PAPER / A FARM STORYOpen MP4 ↗

Find your favourite page.

CHOOSE A CHAPTER TO JUMP IN ↓

This is the web preview; the 1080p master and full production project are retained separately. The page language changes the text, while the film’s audio stays the same.

Explore the frame comparison ↗

02 / THE VISUAL LANGUAGE

Leave a mark.
Leave a little paper.

The feeling comes from how pigment meets paper, and how an action unfolds. Each layer belongs to the same physical world.

01 / MATERIAL

Paper with a memory.

Warm fibres, dry hatching and irregular gaps in the pigment. Grain and drawing move together with the camera; different forms keep their own stroke direction.

02 / DRAWING

Outline. Colour. Hold.

Trace the contour, then lay down colour in passes. Late props and lettering get their own drawing progress, followed by a hold long enough to read.

03 / MOTION

A page with a hinge.

Two paper surfaces, a gutter and contact shadows. Pull back, turn, settle and push in on one timeline, with the illustration anchored to its page.

03 / MAKE IT YOURS

Same box of crayons.
A story of your own.

Bring a subject, an audience and a running time. Your Agent reads the guides, creates an independent project and prepares the environment, then draws your story into a film.

GET THE STUDIO ON GITHUBcodex-film-studio Style guides, material tools, blank inputs and production methods.

Open this repository in your coding Agent and describe your film. / 在 Agent 中打开仓库,描述你想制作的影片。

Use the crayon-book style to make a film about [subject]. Handle project setup, production and review, then deliver the MP4 and editable project. / 请用蜡笔绘本风格制作关于[主题]的影片,自动完成项目创建、制作与检查,交付 MP4 和可编辑工程。
TRY THIS IN YOUR AGENT
Make a three-minute Crayon Picture Book story about [subject] for [audience], with narration and captions in [language]. Create original characters and drawings on warm paper, with indigo contours, stroke-by-stroke reveals and wax colouring. Use readable held poses and small character actions. End with a physical page turn, including its hinge and two paper surfaces. Keep narration, camera, captions and sound on one timeline. Handle setup and production, inspect the pictures, motion and mix, fix observed problems, and deliver a 1080p MP4, editable project and actual review scope.

The production kit includes material rendering, fonts, timeline, mixing and delivery tools. Each new story still needs authored scenes and accepted audio; exact sample recreation also requires the original project and assets.

04 / INSIDE THE STUDIO

Soft pictures.
Careful craft.

The paper, characters and sound need to belong to one continuous story.

01

Small actions, clear intent.

Let held poses, blinks, mouth shapes and necessary hand movements carry the performance. Give important actions time and preserve contact with props and the ground.

02

One shared clock.

Drawing, colouring, camera, speech and contact sounds share a frame timeline. Carry music across cuts, preserve note tails and place the page sound on the moment of contact.

03

Look. Watch. Listen.

Inspect the encoded grain, small lettering and continuous motion, then listen to the mix separately. Record what was actually checked, repair observed defects and verify the delivery file.

05 / SOURCES & FURTHER READING

A few pages of context.

Keep the sample’s origins visible, and carry the reusable methods into the next story.

01 / SAMPLE

The sample & its review

Leo the Farmer is an unofficial retelling of Play with Gyuri’s farm story. The retained comparison and review record describe that film’s actual checks and limitations.

Frame comparison ↗Retained review record ↗
02 / INFLUENCE

A study in crayon

The visual study draws on LemoLab / Lemomo’s crayon-book example in lemo-opuscar, credited under CC BY 4.0 in the style guide. This library’s material code is independently authored; new productions retain the licences of the assets they use.

LemoLab / lemo-opuscar ↗Reference provenance ↗
03 / METHOD

Continuity on paper

Drawing reveals, restrained character performance, continuous music and ambience have a shared production method. Bring those rules to a new subject and author its own story.

Drawn-story continuity ↗