Lore Machine
Lore Machine turns writing into an illustrated world.
- Category
- AI and B2B SaaS
- Fund
- NZVC I
- Website
- www.loremachine.world
What Lore Machine does
A writer pastes in a script, a story or an article, and the tool reads it for characters, locations and mood, then generates images that keep those characters consistent from one frame to the next. What it makes is called a LORE. A LORE is a scrollable story built from narrative, image, video, sound and choice, and a reader can follow one on the web or an iPhone and then remix it into their own. Thobey Campion founded the company, and more than 120,000 creators have signed up to build on it.
The secret
Character consistency frame to frame is what separates a storyboard from a pile of images. Lore Machine gets it by pulling the characters and locations out of the text before it generates anything, so the pictures are made to serve the writing rather than the other way round.
Why NZVC invested in Lore Machine
We backed Lore Machine because storytelling keeps moving from text toward visual formats faster than most creators can draw, and the tools lagged that demand. The product starts from the writing and generates against it, so the writer stays at the top of the content chain rather than prompting a model and hoping. Thobey Campion was building for the individual creator rather than for the studio.
Lore Machine in the press
- Variety covered generative AI storyboarding, Lore Machine includedVariety · 15 March 2024
- MIT Technology Review turned a short story into a comic with Lore MachineMIT Technology Review · 5 March 2024
- Lore Machine opened its visual storytelling platform to the publicReuters (via Yahoo Finance) · 5 March 2024
- Decrypt covered Lore Machine's pitch to film and television writersDecrypt · 5 December 2023