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Built for anime. Nothing else.

Same character. Every episode.

Most AI video tools drift after a few seconds. Milk & Ink locks your cast's identity with trained character LoRAs and a canon engine — across a full anime series, not an 8-second clip.

Drop in a Fountain script. Train your cast once. See the exact per-second cost before you click Generate. Walk away with a Premiere / Resolve / Final Cut timeline that's already cut.

Signed release manifests on every plan · Human reply within 24h

5 min
from signup to first render
1 canon
every shot stays on-model
Per-shot
cost shown on every take
75 ep
founder's own series, in production
  • Pilot from $24,900
  • One complete episode in ~60 days
  • Free Reviewer + Viewer seats
  • LoRA character lock · signed handoff
PROJ · INSOMNIA-S1
01:24:18:04
STAGE · PRE-VIS
24fps
Pre-vis · opening reel
INSOMNIA
render lands here as S1 shots lock

INSOMNIA · S1 — opening reel, shot by shot

LoRA-locked renders replace these as they finish
Elijah
Shot 01
Tokyo rooftop
Shot 01Tokyo rooftop
Elijah
Shot 02
Subway platform
Shot 02Subway platform
Elijah
Shot 03
Shrine steps
Shot 03Shrine steps
Elijah
Shot 04
Apartment kitchen
Shot 04Apartment kitchen
Inside the studio

Preview-first workspace.
Everything in one canvas.

No context switches. Compose, render, review, and approve without leaving the frame you're working on.

SHOT 042 · TAKE 03
Preview
Elijah · wide

Directing canvas

Preview shot under the composer. Drop start frame, describe motion, fire the render mode that fits your look — cinematic-anime, 2D-illustrated, or stylized.

Canon-locked cast

Character LoRAs lock faces across shots. Continuity lint flags drift before render.

Versioned timelines

Every render is a version. Fork from a favorite, compare side-by-side, pick a winner.

Review + provenance

Pins, threads, approvals, signed provenance manifests — distributor-ready out of the box.

In production — pre-vis

INSOMNIA — being produced shot-by-shot on Milk & Ink Studio.

A 75-episode anime series, made on this exact platform — the studio is the show. Below is the opening reel’s shot plan for the lead, Elijah. As each render locks through the canon engine and continuity tooling that ship in the product, the finished frame replaces its tile.

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INSOMNIA · S1Elijah
Pre-vis · shot plan
S01

Tokyo rooftop · golden hour

S02

Subway platform · night

S03

Shrine steps · rain

S04

Apartment kitchen · dawn

Cinematic-anime · planned: character LoRA + Seedance 2.0

Workflow

From idea to episode in four steps.

01

Build your Canon Bible

Upload character references, define locations, set palette and style rules. Your studio's visual law.

02

Plan your sequences

Break episodes into sequences and shots with action, camera, and emotional beats. Drag-and-drop shot board.

03

Generate canon-aware drafts

One click bundles canon refs, prompt, and rules into a packet. Choose a provider, hit generate.

04

Review, approve, release

Continuity engine flags drift. Director approves. Package ships as a release manifest.

What studios build with M&I

From first draft to final release.

Original IP — pilot to streamer

Lock your cast with trained LoRAs. Script → shot list → Canon-checked generation → NLE export. Built for a solo director to take a 22-minute pilot from script to export in weeks, not months.

Episodic series production

The Pipeline portal auto-parses a Fountain script into an episode tree, batches generation for every shot, then compiles approved versions into a Premiere timeline.

Webcomic or light novel → animated pilot

Feed in your source art and script pages. Canon locks the cast to your reference sheets, so the pilot reads as your IP, not a generic AI look. Pitch a real episode, not a mood board.

The editor’s moat

Do the AI work in M&I.
Finish in your timeline.

Traditional editors don’t want another browser tool permanently replacing their workflow — they want AI to handle the heavy lifting so they can finish in the software they already know. Every approved scene in M&I exports a clean, cut-ready timeline in your native format. Hit Export. Open in Premiere, Resolve, or FCP. Done.

Adobe Premiere
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DaVinci Resolve
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Final Cut Pro
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OpenTimelineIO
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Clean cut-list with frame-accurate timecodes

See your IP animated in 15 minutes.

Have a script, a web comic, or a series bible? We’ll turn a scene into a continuity-locked animatic — character-consistent, export-ready — before you finish your coffee. No waitlist.

Launch promo — first 10 annual subscribers

20% off year-1 on annual Production or Studio plans, on top of the standard 22–24% annual discount. Switch the toggle below to Annual, then enter code LAUNCH20 at checkout — no application, no waitlist. Hard-capped at 10 customers; the code stops working once they’re taken.

Pick a plan
Pricing

Subscribe by the month. Or buy by the show.

Two ways to fund production — a monthly subscription or a one-time project pack. Below are the two most common picks for a studio running a real production. The full Series · Production · Studio · Enterprise ladder, three project packs, and Full Production live on the Studio & Enterprise pricing page — working solo or with a small crew instead? See Spark & Creator pricing.

Continuing creators

Most Popular

Production

$15,999per month

Five episodes a month — a real weekly release cadence.

Get Production

Five episodes every month

  • 1,325 cinematic finals / month — or up to 2,650 multi-reference 720p finals, or 5,300 Runway photoreal finals
  • 1,500 drafts / month · 60 character LoRA trainings / month
  • That's five complete 265-shot 22-min episodes per month at cinematic quality
  • Up to 15 billable seats · unlimited free Reviewer + Viewer · extra seats $99/mo

Distributor-grade delivery

  • Compile approved versions into Premiere / Resolve / FCP / OTIO
  • Tamper-evident audit ledger export (JSON)
  • Signed release packages for distributor handoff
  • Advanced canon analytics + coverage scorecards
  • $7,200 / month additional generation buffer (auto-pauses at the cap, never billed extra)
  • Capacity add-on: +50 cinematic finals/mo per unit for $499/unit/mo — stackable, for a standing monthly overrun
  • Managed-only — keeps your spend ledger, provenance, and audit chain authoritative
  • Everything in Series

Project-based work

Best Value

Season

$89,000one-time · 12 episodes

A full streaming order. The cleanest path to a deliverable season.

Buy Season
  • 12 complete 22-min episodes — 3,600 cinematic finals + 4,000 drafts
  • 40 character LoRAs — enough for a 25–30 lead ensemble
  • Full audio and post across all 12 episodes
  • Pipeline portal · episode lock gates · canon coverage scorecards
  • Signed release packages for distributor handoff
  • 270-day delivery window · priority support
FAQ

Questions? We have answers.

Anime is the core focus — the canon engine enforces your show's style rules (cel-shaded, 2D-illustrated, painterly, whatever your look is), character LoRAs are trained and tuned for anime rendering, and the Composer's camera moves, pacing, and shot grammar default to anime conventions. That said, every project picks one of two production types at creation: Anime, which renders on Seedance with the full mode-aware pipeline, or Photoreal, which renders on Runway Gen-4 for cinematic live-action motion. The same canon, continuity, review, and release tooling runs either way.
Launch promo — first 10 annual subscribers

20% off year-1 on Production or Studio annual plans. Stacks with the 22–24% annual discount. Applied at checkout — no form, no waitlist. Hard-capped at 10 customers.

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5 minutes to your first render

Direct your next production.
Keep your characters.

Sign up, build your Canon Bible, generate your first shot. Pick the plan that fits your production — every tier self-serves straight through checkout.

No vendor lock-in — your timeline exports anywhereSigned release manifests includedHuman reply within 24h