{"id":95208,"title":"Flick = Figma + Cursor for AI Filmmaking 🎬","tagline":"AI Filmmaking tool for anyone who cares about aesthetics, control, and flexibility","body":"👉 **Other AI tools generate clips** — **Flick lets you direct Films**\n\n👇 **All launch video content made with Flick** by ourselves | 🔊+🎧 recommended\n\nhttps://youtu.be/daVI0yscN94?si=iEhip6dPkn8E4rwu\n\n👉 Make your first film: [flick.art](https://flick.art/?invite_code=YCLAUNCH) with code: YCLAUNCH\n\n### **Problem**\n\nMany AI tools can give you 8-second casual clips to post on social media, but when it comes to making high-quality films, they don’t come close due to their lack of flexibility, creative control, and fragmented creative flow.\n\nCreators think very differently from consumers. Creators think in a non-linear way — moving back and forth freely to iterate, making decisions at every step. To direct a film, creators need not just visual and character consistency, but also character movement, shot angles, camera language, and emotional arc.\n\n### **Solution**\n\nFlick puts creative power back in the hands of filmmakers:\n\n1. **Infinite Canvas + Chat**\n\n   An infinite canvas where users upload or generate text, images, and video as connected nodes. We integrate multiple models, but instead of prompt-to-video, we let filmmakers think in terms of scripts, characters, and scenes and give them a natural “chat to create on canvas” experience.\n\n   ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95208\u0026key=user_uploads/2980671/b8812b5c-bb57-4071-9c06-8fe98632f7d0)\n\n2. **Editing while creating**\n\n   Creators like to go back and forth when making shots, so we built editing tools directly into the canvas. So, they can define exactly what kind of shot they want to add or delete to ensure a stronger narrative.\n\n   ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95208\u0026key=user_uploads/2980671/03442527-7251-4885-9368-05ebffdb3191)\n\n3. **Studio + Perplexity for film scenes**\n\n   No one creates from nothing, we’ve needed inspiration since the beginning of humanity. That’s why we’re building [Studio](https://flick.art/studio/experiments-too-boring?from=home), where we produce our own [AI films](https://flick.art/studio/short-films-a-letter-in-early-fall?from=home) and collaborate with leading filmmakers to share their behind-the-scenes workflows as reusable canvases and templates for our community members.\n\n   ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95208\u0026key=user_uploads/2980671/9c2e48c5-fdcc-4228-9782-250c0b8325d6)\n\n   And integrated Perplexity for film search, allowing users to find classic film shots as references.\n\n   ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95208\u0026key=user_uploads/2980671/508c6b70-0b8d-4c27-8f40-74481ffde11f)\n\n\n### **Connect Hollywood？**\n\n[**John Rosenberg**](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0742239/) is a Hollywood filmmaker, producer, and production executive with over 30 years experience. He has worked at studios including 20th Century Fox, Orion, and New Line. His films have premiered at Sundance.\n\nJohn also is a professor at [USC’s School of Cinematic Arts](https://cinema.usc.edu/directories/profile.cfm?id=33682) and a member of ACE (American Cinema Editors). His editing books, published by Routledge / Focal Press, are widely used by film students around the world.\n\nJohn joins Flick as our advisor to connect Hollywood filmmaking craft with the next generation of AI storytellers.\n\n### **Now**\n\n👉 Make your first film: [flick.art](https://flick.art/?invite_code=YCLAUNCH) with code: YCLAUNCH\n\n[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/flickart) | [X](https://x.com/flickart_ai) | [Discord](https://discord.gg/SPYgXej78k) | [Instagram](https://instagram.com/flickart_ai) | [TikTok](https://tiktok.com/@flick_art)\n\n### **About Us**\n\n[**Ray**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruiwang3/) was a founding engineer at Instagram AI team, who helped build the first version of Instagram Stories, launched it and helped grow it from 0 to 400M DAU in 2018. As main contributor, wrote almost all the backend code in the first year. Have built multiple profitable AI products in the past venture.\n\n[**Zoey**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/z0ey/) has been a filmmaker since 2013, graduated from Brown and RISD. She is an award-winning filmmaker and product designer. Previously her creations include commercials for Mercedes-Benz, viral short films with millions of views, an award-winning documentary, and collaborations with leading film talents such as cinematographer Thierry Arbogast (_Léon_). Her AI filmmaking research was published at [SIGGRAPH 2025](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3721250.3742968).\n\nFlick was emerged from the creation of Zoey’s first AI film that got best visual award at [MIT film festival](https://mitaifilmhack.com/winners/). Since then, there are 4 complete AI short films created using Flick that got 20+ awards at international film festivals and our early creator residency are generating several AI short films every week.\n\n---\n\n### **Mission**\n\nThe next generation of creators won’t think about “prompting models” at all, they’ll just direct, compose, and feel, and the tools will disappear into their creative flow. That’s the future we’re building toward. And that’s why we exist.\n\n### **Ask**\n\nIf you know film studios or creators interested in AI filmmaking, reach out to us: [founders@flick.art](mailto:founders@flick.art) ✌️🍊\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95208\u0026key=user_uploads/2980671/97d97c4c-82b0-4de1-8bb5-e3a579aa677c)\n\n","slug":"Olc-flick-figma-cursor-for-ai-filmmaking","created_at":"2025-11-05T18:07:12.705Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T03:24:58.013Z","total_vote_count":93,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Olc-flick-figma-cursor-for-ai-filmmaking","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=95208\u0026key=user_uploads/2980671/97d97c4c-82b0-4de1-8bb5-e3a579aa677c","company":{"id":30884,"name":"Flick","slug":"flick","url":"https://flick.art","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9f96ddb243962497e60383676b01ce3b0cd4cb76.png","batch":"Fall 2025","industry":"Consumer","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30884"}}