Make a cupcake mystery
Your kid draws a detective and the suspects, hides a clue in every part, and decides who took the last cupcake. They get a 2-minute animated whodunit in eight scenes, made over a few sittings.
What your kid actually makes
A 2-minute animated whodunit in eight scenes. The last cupcake is gone, everyone was in the kitchen, and your kid's detective has to work out who took it. Your kid draws the detective and the suspects, and decides who did it. The film ends with a poster, their first name in the credits, and a premiere.
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How a sitting goes
A few sittings over one week. The studio keeps the film between sittings.
- Draw the detective and the suspects, and name each one.
- Tell Tek the case, by typing or by talking. Tek sets up an eight-scene storyboard, and your kid fixes it panel by panel or drops in their own drawings.
- Choose the sound. Your kid picks who talks in each scene and gives them one line, typed or said out loud, or lets the film play with music only.
- Shoot the eight scenes. Keep the good takes and shoot the rest again.
- Name the film, make the poster, and press play for the premiere.
What AI does — and what your kid does
Your kid draws the cast, hides the clues, picks the culprit, and gives each scene its one line. Tek, the studio's assistant producer, sets up the storyboard from your kid's story and brings the drawings to life in the studio's cartoon look. The AI shoots each scene and adds the title, music, and credits. It never picks the culprit.
What they're really learning
A mystery has a rule: a clue in every part, and the culprit is someone we already saw in the first scene. Tek plans the storyboard by that rule, and your kid decides where each clue hides. They learn to plan a story backward from its ending, and to play fair with the audience.
Good to know
- A few sittings in one week. You need paper, something to draw with, and a device with a camera. It runs in the browser.
- Ages 6 to 13. Your kid can talk to Tek instead of typing.
- The 2-minute movie opens after your kid finishes a short, like The Worst Superhero in Town.
- A mystery, not a horror film. Nobody gets hurt, and the crime is one missing cupcake.
- When the film premieres, you get an email.
- Nothing goes on the open web unless you approve a public link. Only your kid's first name appears in the credits.
- Ages
- 6–13
- How long it takes
- A few sittings
- They walk away with
- a 2-minute animated whodunit in eight scenes, with a clue in every part
There are two kinds of projects for kids. The first kind ends on the fridge door. The second kind ends as a real thing other kids can read, watch, or play: a magazine, a game, a film, an episode. Kubrio makes the second kind. Kids make them by directing the same AI the pros use.
Your kid can start this one today.
Start the membership — a project a week for each kid, with three AI thinking partners in every project and Claire, your family’s AI learning coach.
$29 a week to make.
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