Where Stories
Come Alive
Click highlighted characters and objects. Tap the background to discover hidden details.
Figures breathe, sway, and glow as the scene comes alive. Or watch the whole book play as a cinematic movie.
AI generates new scenes, narration, and images — in real time.
Free to explore. No signup required.
Highlighted characters and objects respond on click. Tap the background and the AI checks for hidden details worth surfacing.
How It Works
A scene appears
Hand-painted illustration breathes with parallax + drifting fog, with a procedural mood bed underneath and emotional Sarvam narration shaped to the scene’s mood.
Click highlighted elements
Characters and objects with golden glow rings respond instantly. Tap anywhere else and AI checks if there’s a hidden detail worth surfacing.
Pick a verb — the world reacts
Camera dollies in for Talk, pushes + shakes for Fight, arcs upward for Leap. The figure quickens its breath, leans toward the addressee, and a verb-keyed sprite flashes — then a branch unfolds, action-keyed so Talk and Fight stay distinct.
Or watch it as a movie
Same engine renders a cinematic cut: per-scene camera motion, sentence cues, mood music ducked under narration, the same effects DSL baked into the file. Plus a 45-second trailer cut on demand.
Normal Flipbook vs Living Story Engine
Every book also plays as a film
One manifest, two cuts. The engine renders a 43-second cinematic trailer or the full 7-minute movie from the same scenes — per-scene motion, sentence cues, and a procedural mood bed ducked under Sarvam's emotional narration. The same effects DSL — particles, dust shafts, drifting fog, divine glow — and the same per-character puppet states play in the live reader and the exported MP4.
- Per-scene motion — battle push, divine glow, slow pan
- Ambient idle — figures breathe, sway, blink, and look around
- Puppet states — Talk speeds breath, Fight quickens sway, Leap arcs upward
- Emotional Sarvam narration — pace + pitch shaped per scene mood
- Sentence cues with explicit ms timing in the manifest
- Procedural mood bed, ducked to 0.10 under speech
- Universal effects DSL — particles, dust shafts, fog, rim light
- Audio-driven mouth pulse + geometric gaze toward the addressee
- Verb-aware QA — Talk, Fight, Honor each feel distinct
- Full-quality MP4 export from the movie page
Live in the engine right now
Two books — one curated, one generated end-to-end by KathaKitaab from a typed title. Both read interactively. Both play as a cinematic cut in the browser.
Ramayana
The hand-tuned reference book — 12 scenes, 6:46 cinematic cut, all assets archived. The benchmark every generated book is measured against.
Make your own in four steps
Same pipeline that produced Akbar and Birbal above. Each step links straight to the part of the engine that handles it — read top to bottom and you'll have a movie of your own in about three minutes.
Type any book title
Mahabharata. Panchatantra. NCERT Science Grade 6. Tenali Raman. The AI plans a 9–12 scene story arc — establish, raise the conflict, follow the rising action, turn, resolve.
KathaKitaab builds it
gpt-4o-mini writes scene-by-scene narration, hotspots, and a quiz. gpt-image-1 paints each scene. Sarvam Bulbul records the narration in a voice the AI picked to match the character. All in parallel.
Click anywhere
Highlighted characters and objects speak in their own voice — the LLM picks the archetype at gen time. Tap empty background and the AI checks what hidden detail belongs there. Every click is cached so repeats are instant.
Watch as a movie
Same scenes, cinematic cut. Per-scene camera motion, ducked mood music, sentence-timed captions, particles + dust shafts + divine glow per the manifest. Ramayana ships pre-baked; AI books are synthesised live from the same engine.
One Engine. Any Story.
Type any title. The AI builds a complete interactive illustrated book.
Ready to enter a living story?
Click a character. Discover a hidden path. Hear the story narrated. Shape what happens next.