Your movie
A finished 9:16 movie, made from your photos and your choices — three sample frames from one, above.
Helorai · Personal movies
You bring the photos. Helorai brings the movie.
A short movie — 30 to 90 seconds — starring you and your people. Your characters talk on screen, and the whole thing is made from your photos and your choices: your story, your cast, your style, your ending.
9:16Your movie
The loop: your photos become a movie. Behind it, one family moment in three looks — sample frames.
Genres
Pick a world. Star in it.
Every Helorai movie starts with a world to step into. Three of them, as sample posters — made from one person’s photos, the way yours will be made from yours.
Sample
See what you get.
Sample movie — made with Helorai’s story system, from one family’s photos and choices.
This is the shape of every Helorai movie: a short vertical film built from your photos, with your cast as the characters and your choices driving the story. Press play, then look at everything that comes with it below.
When you make your own, you approve the character sheets before anything is made, and you pick the story, the style and the ending yourself — every step is a menu, never a blank page.
Deliverables
Your character sheets
The character sheets you approved are saved to your account, so your next movie starts with the cast already built.
Your choices
Every step is a menu — story, style, cast, destination and length are all yours to set.
- Pick a preset
- Surprise me
- Your own idea
Delivered within 24 hours
A finished 9:16 MP4, yours to keep — download it, post it, or just hold onto it. Our target is delivery within 24 hours of sheet approval. If that ever changes, we will tell you plainly — not hide behind a progress bar. If we ultimately cannot deliver a watchable movie, you choose: a full refund, or a replacement credit.
What Helorai is
Self-serve software that turns your photos into a movie.
Helorai is software you use yourself: you bring the photos and make the choices, and the software makes the movie. Helorai makes personal movies that star you: short films built from your photos, with the people you choose as the cast. You pick every step from a menu and approve the character sheets; you finish with a movie file that is yours to keep.
How it works
Three steps to your movie.
01
Your photos
Upload clear photos of each person in your cast. Character sheets are built from them automatically — and you approve those sheets before anything is made.
02
Your choices
Every step is a menu: pick a preset, tap Surprise me, or use your own idea. Story, style, cast, destination, and length are all yours to set.
03
Your movie
A finished 9:16 movie file arrives within a day, ready to keep and share.
One thing that never changes: children always appear as animated story characters, never as photo-likeness.
Styles
One moment, three looks.
The same family moment, made three ways. You pick the look when you make your movie — these are sample frames of each one.
Storybook
Warm animated feature look — warm gold and sky teal by day, deep indigo and star gold by night. Default for family casts.
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Webtoon
Clean lines, glossy colour, made for vertical screens.
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Cinematic-real
Photoreal drama for adult casts; strictest quality checks; children in the cast are still drawn as animated characters, never photo-like.
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Story shelf
Start from a story.
Five story skeletons today — every one is a menu: preset, surprise, or your own idea.
The Big Adventure
A door opens, the journey begins, and everyone has to be home before dark.
First Date, Again
A couple re-lives their first date — and one thing goes sweetly wrong.
The Birthday Mission
The cast must deliver the surprise before the candles are lit.
The Little Hero
The smallest member of the cast saves the day, with the whole family behind them.
Home for the Holiday
A journey home against small obstacles — and the door opening at the end.
Start with one idea.
One set of photos, one short story, one movie that stars your people. You finish with something you made — a movie that is yours to keep.