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CastWorkshop
Create AI characters, stories & videos. All on your machine
Your cast. Your stories. Your Machine. CastWorkshop is an open-source, local-first workspace for creating persistent AI characters. Build their identities, talk with them, and carry their visual references into scenes and video. Bring multiple characters together, direct their dialogue, and continue the story on your own machine with Python, Ollama, and ComfyUI. Now in public beta; install from source.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I built CastWorkshop because I wanted to do more with local AI than generate one-off images and videos. I wanted to create characters that could develop personalities, remember conversations, interact with each other, and bring their stories to life.
CastWorkshop brings all of that together in a free, open-source application that runs entirely on your own hardware.
You can create persistent AI characters, chat with them, direct them in scenes, generate images and videos, or let them come up with creative ideas of their own.
Under the hood, it connects Ollama and ComfyUI, with support for custom workflows, multi-character scenes, video continuation, and even Telegram integration.
It's an early public beta, and you'll need a reasonably powerful PC to run it. I've been developing and testing it on an RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB VRAM.
I'd love to hear what you think, especially what you'd want to create with it and what would make it easier for you to get started.
Thanks for checking it out!
Your Cast. Your Stories. Your Machine.
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About CastWorkshop on Product Hunt
“Create AI characters, stories & videos. All on your machine ”
CastWorkshop was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #324 on the daily leaderboard. Your cast. Your stories. Your Machine. CastWorkshop is an open-source, local-first workspace for creating persistent AI characters. Build their identities, talk with them, and carry their visual references into scenes and video. Bring multiple characters together, direct their dialogue, and continue the story on your own machine with Python, Ollama, and ComfyUI. Now in public beta; install from source.
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