Melted Crayons TV

Melted Crayons TV is a browser-based AI storytelling studio for making comics, graphic novels, storyboards, animated videos, and story pages. Character references help maintain a character’s visual appearance across panels, clips, and pages. The studio offers more than 30 art styles, including comic book, anime, watercolor, LEGO, and cyberpunk. Creators can direct motion shot by shot and add character voices or narration. Outputs include interactive comic pages, MP4 video, narrated read-alongs, PDF and print, and social cuts. Published stories can use trackable short links and QR codes with click analytics. The free Sketch plan includes 30 monthly credits for image-only use and watermarked 1080p static comic video exports; it does not include panel animation. Paid plans start at $9.99 per month. Character photo background extraction runs in the browser, and the maker says the photo does not leave the device for that step. Account content is retained while an account is active; backups after deletion may take up to 30 days to expire.

Melted Crayons TV combines visual storytelling, animation, narration, and publishing outputs in a browser studio. Check the plan’s credit allowance, watermark, and usage terms against your project needs.

It suits creators, publishers, studios, brands, and people making stories for personal use. The free tier may suit image-only projects; animation and commercial-use terms vary by paid plan.

Melted Crayons TV suits creators who want to turn a story into illustrated, animated, and publishable formats from a browser-based studio. Its breadth is a strength, but the free tier is limited to static, watermarked work, and animation clips are capped at 10 seconds.

Overview

The studio brings AI character creation, scene editing, image-to-animation, and publishing into one workflow. Character references are designed to preserve a character’s look across panels, clips, and pages, which is useful for recurring characters in comics or branded stories. More than 30 art styles range from comic-book and anime treatments to watercolor, LEGO, and cyberpunk.

Creators can direct motion for each shot and add character voices and narration. Outputs include interactive comic pages, narrated read-alongs, PDFs and print, social cuts, and MP4 video with H.264 video and AAC audio. The 10-second maximum clip duration makes the animation feature a fit for short scenes, not extended video. Published stories can use trackable short links and QR codes with click analytics.

Key features

• Character references: Designed to maintain visual consistency across panels, clips, and pages, a practical advantage for stories with recurring characters.
• Motion and narration: Per-shot motion direction and per-character voices let creators shape short animated scenes and read-alongs. Animation is absent from the free tier.
• Publishing choices: The range from interactive pages to MP4, PDF, print, and social cuts supports repurposing a story for different audiences.
• Engagement tracking: Short links, QR codes, and click analytics give publishers a way to track response to a published story.
• Privacy and data handling: The policy describes TLS in transit, bcrypt salted password hashing, database access controls, and no sale of personal information. Account content remains while the account is active; backups may take up to 30 days to expire after deletion. Character-photo background extraction runs in the browser, and the maker says the photo does not leave the device for that step.
• Engines and voices: The maker names Google Veo and Gemini, Kling, Seedance, ElevenLabs, and Cartesia among its engines and voice providers.

Pricing

Melted Crayons TV uses a freemium model, with paid plans starting at $9.99/mo. All paid plans are billed monthly; choose by credit volume, output needs, and permitted use rather than assuming the lowest tier covers commercial work.

• Sketch — free: 30 credits per month, standard voices, image-only use, and watermarked 1080p static comic video exports. It has no panel animation and is personal-use only, making it a sampler rather than a publishing tier for polished animated work.
• Storyteller — $9.99 a month: 80 monthly credits, standard voices, 1080p static and animated video, panel animation, and Watch Mode without a watermark. It remains personal-use only, so the upgrade removes the watermark and unlocks animation but not commercial rights.
• Creator — $24.99 a month: 200 monthly credits, premium ElevenLabs voices, 1440p (2K) static and animated video, panel animation, Watch Mode, no watermark, and small commercial use. This is the more suitable step for creators who need sharper exports or modest commercial permission.
• Studio — $59.99 a month: 500 monthly credits, premium ElevenLabs voices, 4K static and animated video, panel animation, Watch Mode, no watermark, and full commercial use. It fits heavier production needs that justify the larger credit allowance and 4K output.
• Agency — $199 a month: 1,650 monthly credits, Gemini Omni (Veo 3.1) motion, premium ElevenLabs voices, 4K static and animated video, panel animation, Watch Mode, priority, seats, no watermark, and full commercial use. The higher tier is aimed at agency workflows that need seats and priority as well as substantial volume.
• Enterprise — custom pricing: Volume, API access, SSO, dedicated support, and Gemini Omni (Veo 3.1) motion make this the option for organizations needing those capabilities.

Optional credit top-ups activate after a monthly cap is reached; top-up credits do not expire and stack across months. The stated allowances make monthly credits a meaningful constraint for frequent production, while the top-ups offer a way to continue without losing unused purchased credits.

Platforms

The platform list includes Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, web, and API. The product is described as browser-based, so the web workflow is central; the platform list also includes mobile and desktop operating systems.

Who it's for

The maker describes an audience spanning creators, brands, studios, labels, publishers, parents making bedtime stories, and weekend creators. In practice, the strongest fit is someone who values character continuity and wants to turn illustrated stories into several output formats. Sketch can suit personal image-only experimentation; animated or commercial projects need a paid plan matched to the required resolution and rights. The short clip cap makes it a weaker fit for work that depends on longer continuous animation.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Character references, scene editing, animation, narration, and multiple publishing formats sit within one storytelling workflow.
• Pro: Trackable links and QR codes with click analytics can help publishers gauge engagement.
• Pro: Monthly credits vary substantially by tier, and optional top-ups do not expire or lose their accumulated balance.
• Con: The free tier is image-only, watermarked, and personal-use only, with no panel animation.
• Con: Storyteller also limits use to personal projects, so commercial users must move to Creator or above.
• Con: A 10-second maximum clip duration rules out longer-form animated sequences as a single clip.

Alternatives

For other options in the category, browse AI Animation Makers.

• Krikey AI is another freemium choice, with Android, iOS, and web support; its free plan has 20 one-time credits and Pro costs $15 a month for 165 monthly credits.
• Move AI offers API, iOS, macOS, self-hosted, web, and Windows support; its free tier has 30 credits that do not expire and allows videos up to 30 seconds, useful if longer clips matter.
• Motion Transfer AI has iOS and web support, a free trial, and a free tier with 18 one-time signup credits and watermarked previews and downloads.
• Storybook Adventures is an iOS alternative.
• Artiroom is a web alternative with a $9.99 one-time Starter Pack offering 15 credits, every model, watermark-free output, and scene downloads.
• Charios is a web alternative whose free plan includes 3 active projects, 30 credits per month, 13 bundled mocap clips, and community support.
• DeepMotion Animate 3D is an API and web alternative with a freemium tier.
• LTX Studio is a web alternative with a free tier that includes 800 one-time credits for personal use.

Verdict

Choose Melted Crayons TV if you want to carry a character through comics, short animation, narration, and publication from one storytelling studio. Its main advantage is the connection between character continuity and flexible output formats; its main drawbacks are the 10-second clip ceiling and the gap between personal-use plans and paid commercial rights. Look elsewhere if your project depends on longer animation clips or a simpler animation-focused workflow.