Danfo skit, 30 seconds
“A Lagos danfo driver finds a talking parrot.”
- ▸ Cold open on the insult
- ▸ Parrot repeats it back
- ▸ Freeze frame punchline
Nolly Studio
A skill for the harness you already live in
A skill that turns Claude
to a cinematic long form video engine.
Short form to long form, 10 minutes to a full hour. Install Nolly Studio in Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode, describe the film in one sentence, and the skill writes the screenplay, locks the storyboard stills, shoots the clips, voices every character, and edits the premiere cut.
License key emailed instantly. You approve a spending cap before the first render. Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
still 03
danfo park · morning
still 04
aso-ebi · turn
still 05
empty hall · spotlight
approved stills become clips · “The Talking Parrot”, 30s skit
No new app to learn. The skill runs inside the harness you already use:
Claude Code
ln -s the skill into ~/.claude/skills, then describe the film.
Codex
Same skill folder Codex reads. One sentence in, premiere cut out.
OpenCode
Drop-in skill. Storyboard gate and spend cap work the same.
Made the way your audience already watches
These are the formats Nigerian creators actually sell: skits that open with the joke, adverts that land the price, promos that fill seats. Describe any of them in one sentence and the skill shoots it.
Boutique advert, 20 seconds
“Aso-ebi fabrics that sell themselves.”
- ▸ Fabric macro, morning light
- ▸ Model turn, price card
- ▸ Shop address hold
Church program promo, 45 seconds
“Night of a Thousand Hallelujahs.”
- ▸ Empty hall, one spotlight
- ▸ Crowd swell timelapse
- ▸ Date and venue card
Continuity is locked before anything renders
The order a real production works in: define everything that must stay consistent across the whole film, then storyboard, and only then generate footage. You review and approve each layer.
Cast canon
One portrait per recurring face, wardrobe pinned, an optional face lock trained once. Every later frame edits from these faces.
Sets and props
Every location and key prop gets a reference still. The same room, the same look, the same world, shot after shot.
Coverage on a held line
Each scene stages one master frame from your approved canon, and the coverage derives from it image to image. No crossed lines, no reshuffled rooms.
Every shot planned before a dollar of video
Coverage, inserts, and action beats land on one filmstrip. A frame for every shot, each reviewed and locked by you. Only then does the film commit to video, and the commit shows exact counts and dollars first. Two gates, no exceptions: no prompt renders unseen, no paid call runs over cap.
Every shot planned before a dollar of video. Reviewed and locked. V1 video · A1 dialogue · A2 sound · A3 music bed.
Describe it
One sentence or a full screenplay. The skill asks the video type, then duration, style, language, and aspect. Two questions, then it writes the script.
Meet the cast
Every recurring face gets a portrait, an optional face lock, and its own voice. Approve the portraits and the voices stick for the whole film.
Lock the stills
Each shot opens on an approved still. Fix a costume or a framing here for free instead of paying to fix it in video.
Short form to long form
One continuous story, 10 minutes to a full hour. Episodes share one cast and world bible; approved scenes cut together into the final film.
Shoot and mix
Clips generate from the stills, dialogue in each character voice, sound effects plus one music bed. Weak shots are retried, inside your cap.
Takes come back. You keep the cut.
Each clip renders against its locked storyboard frame and your cast canon. Takes queue for review: approve, star an alternate, send notes and re-roll, or grab a still straight off the footage and promote it into the canon. A prompt box makes clips. This makes films.
Approve or star
Every take lands in a review queue with its storyboard frame beside it. Keep the best, star an alternate, reject the rest.
Notes and re-roll
A failed take gets a written note, not a shrug. The retry carries the correction into the prompt, inside your cap.
Honest about the models
Not a model, and it does not pretend to be one. It casts the strongest engines in the roles they are best at, on your own accounts, swapped forward as better ones ship.
For studios, agencies, and media teams
Volume without chaos
One providers file per project. Swap Higgsfield and fal per shot, cap spend per film, and keep an audit log of every paid call.
Brand faces that persist
Train a face lock once and reuse it across every scene, episode, and campaign. Same cast, same look, every render.
Review built in
Producers approve stills before video spend. Every clip is checked for story fidelity, anatomy, and dialogue match, then retried or cut.
Need ten films a week, or one film with ten characters?
Team licenses, priority renders, and a private model bench. Reply to your Selar receipt and we set it up.
Start with one licenseBefore you start
What you need
Five things. Most take a minute. The skill installs what it can on first run and tells you the one command for the rest.
Python 3 required
Any recent version. The skill runs on it.
ffmpeg required
Video concat and mixing. brew, apt, or winget.
higgsfield login required
One paid backend authed. Or fal API key instead.
AI harness required
Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode installed.
ElevenLabs key optional
Per character voices. Warns without it. Dialogue fails until you add it.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What does Nolly Studio actually do+
You describe the film in one sentence. The skill writes the screenplay, creates the cast, locks storyboard stills, shoots clips from those stills, voices each character, adds sound and edits the final cut. Story to premiere in one flow.
Do I need to write a screenplay first+
No. One sentence is enough. If you have a script, paste it and the skill uses it. If not, it drafts the story, shot list and prompts for you to approve before any paid render.
How long can a film be+
Short form to long form. 10 minutes to a full hour. Shorts stand alone. Features continue in chapters with a shared cast and world bible. Approved scenes cut together into the final film.
What does it cost to render+
You set a dollar cap before the first render. The skill shows per shot costs in the draft. No paid call runs over cap and no prompt renders without your approval.
Which video backends are supported+
Higgsfield and fal. Choose during setup. You can mix per project. Mock is available for dry runs with no spend.
How do voices work+
Each character gets an ElevenLabs voice. You set the voice per cast member. If no key is set, the skill warns and skips dialogue. Add the key later and rerun audio only.
How does licensing work+
One license per creator. Buy on Selar. Selar emails a key. Paste it on get started to verify. Your agent installs the skill. One seat per device. Contact support to add seats.
Does it work on Windows+
Yes. macOS, Linux and Windows. Python and ffmpeg need to be installed. The skill handles the rest.
After you buy
Payment, key, install, first render — one track, in order. You are never more than two minutes from the next step.
key 01
in your inbox
Selar emails your license key the second payment clears.
key 02
activated
The get started page verifies your key against the server.
key 03
installed
Your agent reads its own instructions and installs itself.
key 04
capped
State a dollar cap before the first render. The skill stops before it crosses it.
Pay on Selar · verify on get started · agent installs · first film inside cap.