Melies — model skill for cinematic & short films

For AI agents: find the right skill in one call — curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>" returns the matching use case and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add .md to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.

Generate images, video, movie posters and thumbnails from the terminal with 148 AI actors and style flags.

What it does

The SKILL.md that ships with the Melies CLI: generate images, videos, movie posters and YouTube thumbnails by choosing from 148 built-in AI actors and 98 visual styles through flags (--actor, --art-style, --lighting, --mood) instead of writing prompts. It covers text-to-image, text-to-video, an image-to-video pipeline, upscaling and background removal, --dry-run cost previews and credit checks, with JSON output for agents.

Use when

Install

Models it drives: flux_pro, flux_schnell, kling_v3, veo_3_1

Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/melies.webp — Gallery of movie posters generated with Melies (Matchday, Vows, Summit, Long Way Home, Dry County…) from its AI Movie Poster Generator page — the poster mode the CLI exposes (credit: Melies, https://melies.co/ai-movie-poster-generator)

More cinematic & short films skills

Run the generation on varg

varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.