3.15
2023-09-19
What’s New:
Full-Body Animations: Characters now play more complex full-body animations when you generate movies. Tap Animate Characters in the Settings dropdown to turn it off.
3.14
2023-09-04
The MovieBot 3.14 (Pi release) is here!
What’s New:
- New Cameras: Evolve your stories with three new wide angle cameras that animate automatically!
- Video Encoding update: Improves video export reliability.
- Avatar Loader Fix: Improves reliability when importing photoreal avatars.
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3.13
2023-08-24
Introducing MovieBot Plus, our premium service featuring new creation tools and export settings to make your movies look incredible! Try it free for three days, then $4.99 / month afterwards.
Premium features:
- Generative Worlds: Create new worlds from a text prompt with Skybox AI.
- Premium Voices: Unlock 38 expressive new voices powered by ElevenLabs.
- 1080p Export: Export videos at twice the resolution. Oooh, so crispy!
- Remove Watermark: Look more profesh & remove watermarks on exported videos.
- Personal Avatars: Turn yourself into a MovieBot character with a selfie!
- Longer Movies: Export movies up to 60 seconds long.
- New Frame Sizes: Export landscape & square videos – in addition to portrait.
More Improvements:
- Interface scaler: Made the UI more usable on smaller screens.
- Generative Worlds Prompt Enhancer: Skybox AI will now automatically improve short prompts to generate pro-level results.
- Skibidi Jeff & Steve characters.
- New voice picker UI in Story Editor.
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3.12
2023-07-14
What’s New:
• Personal Avatars: Turn yourself into a MovieBot character – your very own Mini-Me! Simply take a selfie and we’ll create an avatar for you! Powered by Avaturn, you can even customize your hair, clothing, shoes, and accessories.
• Doubled story topic character limit to 200.
• Reduced generative worlds feature unlock from five to two movie exports.
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3.11
2023-07-03
What’s New:
Generate Worlds: create new backgrounds for your stories on the fly with AI-powered skybox generation powered by Blockade Labs!
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3.10
2023-06-26
What’s New:
- Cleaned up More tab by removing extra white space.
- Updated ChatGPT model to gpt-3.5-turbo-0613.
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3.9
2023-06-20
What’s New:
The home screen now remembers your prompt and asset selections, making it easier to iterate on content. Tap 'Clear All' to reset changes.
Minor update to the watermark in exported videos.
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3.8
2023-06-12
What’s New:
Higher quality voices powered by ElevenLabs!
Improved reliability of previewing and selecting voices in the Story Editor.
Fixed Gretchen’s broke neck & a bug in the camera reposition tool where it didn't always reset correctly.
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3.7
2023-05-28
A minor update featuring email validation for onboarding and script generation polish.
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3.6
2023-05-21
New Features:
- More voices: Added Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Urdu, Malay, Portuguese, Bengali, Zulu, Hebrew, Russian, Finnish, and Arabic voice options.
- Improved story variety: Updated our prompting and camera systems to get a wider variety of AI-generated stories.
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3.5
2023-05-06
- New splash screen: made the onboarding experience more friendly for new guests.
- More languages: added Spanish & German voice options, with more coming soon.
- New character: the Doctor is ready to see you now.
- Mouth fix: character mouth's open correctly when speaking longer amounts of text.
3.4
2023-05-01
New Features:
- Voice Selector: choose a voice for your characters before generating movies.
- Desert environment: get your monkes some water! They’re gonna be thirsty in the desert.
- Smol: reduced app size by 14%.
3.3
2023-04-23
New Features:
- Style selector. Swag out your story with different style modifiers like Rap Battle and Gen-Z.
- More hair assets. Time to give your custom characters a new haircut!
- Four new gorillas. Ooh-ooh-ah-ah! Play with four new gorilla characters to fill out the monke rainbow.
Bug Fixes & Polish:
- Story Topic text field now supports multiple lines.
- Fixed issue where characters would not say their lines.
- Fixed gap in character & environment UI.
- Re-aligned character voices with the appropriate gender.
- After exporting, tapping "Cancel" or "Discard" on the exit popup menu does not play/pause the exported video.
3.2
2023-04-04
Introducing MovieBot, a new name and brand that expands upon the Movieoke you know and love. With a new focus on AI-generated animation, we’re making it even faster and easier to create videos. Simply type any topic in the new home screen and MovieBot will generate an interactive 3D movie with talking characters based on your prompt.
Please let us know what you think by leaving us a review in the App Store or by sharing your feedback in Discord! We hope you love it!
2.10
2023-02-24
• Character Creator: Build your own characters with custom height, weight, skin color, hairstyle, and clothing!
• Auto-motion: Animate characters automatically based on microphone or text-to-speech audio.
• Bug fixes: AI-generated stories should give the correct number of shots and clearer feedback for errors. Also fixed camera repositioning tool from editing the wrong camera.
2.9
2023-02-13
New Features:
* 2x faster export! Thanks to our engineering wizardry, you can now export videos in half the time!
* Text-to-speech voices are now persistent across individual characters.
* Four new templates in the home screen!
* Fixed bug clarifying the state of the face capture button when the app is first opened.
2.8
2023-01-25
New Features:
* Higher quality shadows for 3D scenes. Bye bye pixellation!
* It’s corn! Welcome our new character friends: Corn and Apple.
* Bug fixes that improve audio lag.
2.7.1
2022-12-08
New Features:
* 3D environments add a new dimension to your backgrounds while simplifying scene setup!
* New characters: Baldi, Bears, and Chick.
Bug fixes:
* Removed redundant Done button during scene playback.
* Made using the microphone and face capture for the first time more reliable.
* Stopped characters mouths from moving when they’re not supposed to while using text-to-speech.
* Made AI-generated stories more reliable.
* Fixed the Save & Share button on the Export Complete screen.
2.6
2022-11-15
- A bounty of new characters: Gorilla, Melon, Pumpkin, Amogus, & Falling Guys
- Polished lip rig to reduce crunchiness
- Fixed bug where AI voice audio is missing after backgrounding the app
2.5
2022-11-02
- Major UI update! We’ve made the 3D scene persistent across Edit and Record modes and made it easier to change cameras and edit the teleprompter while recording.
- It’s raining cats and dogs! New wiggly kitties and doges at your service!
- Higher quality text-to-speech on iOS 16.
- New lip system for more advanced expressions.
- Reduced jankiness of character thumbnails by 53%. No more t-pose!
2.4.1
2022-10-25
- AI-generated stories provides a massive boost of inspiration to your creative process! Simply enter a story idea and let the AI generate the dialogue!
- New onboarding videos make it easier to learn how to use Movieoke.
- Fixed a Record button issue.
2.4
2022-10-18
- AI-generated stories provides a massive boost of inspiration to your creative process! Simply enter a story idea and let the AI generate the dialogue!
- New onboarding videos make it easier to learn how to use Movieoke.
2.3
2022-10-03
- Made the microphone permissions optional so you can now play Movieoke exclusively with AI voices if you prefer.
- New birb characters: flop around as a penguin, chicken, or duck!
- Improved clarity of the default script for AI voices when there is no text in the teleprompter.
2.2
2022-09-26
- AI-generated voices! Tap the chat bubble icon in Record mode to have your characters speak with an AI-generated voice based on the text in the teleprompter.
- Rotate characters with the new rotation slider. Feel dat z-axis freedom!
- Added toggle buttons to make it easier to select characters for face capture.
- Characters now have even more expressive faces. Try making a surprised face for a…surprise.
- Updated tutorial slideshow with new copy and images.
- Fixed a bug where the first shot in the timeline was not centered.
2.1
2022-09-12
– Face capture animation toggle lets you turn camera-based face animation on or off while recording. Let’s hear that beautiful voice of yours!
– Streamlined UI adds a new navigation bar for switching between Edit and Record modes and makes exporting content faster.
– A new Camera tab lets you adjust the orientation and focal length of your cameras. Much cinematic.
– Add, delete, and reorder shots in the Story tab.
– Reintroducing templates in the Home Screen to give you some inspiration for creating content.
– New characters: Zucc & Alex. See you in the Sweet Baby Rays metaverse!