Idea Engine Pitch Studio

Idea Engine Pitch Studio · Los Angeles

See the show
before anyone buys it.

Cinematic pitch visualization for writers and producers — tone frames, lookbooks and animated teasers that make a buyer feel the world in ninety seconds. We visualize your words. We never write them.

Why it works

Buyers say yes to what they can see.

A great script still has to survive a room full of people imagining different shows. A lookbook and a teaser put everyone in the same world — palette, faces, scale, tone — before the first meeting ends.

Our direction comes from three decades inside production: on-set technology, playback and screen graphics for studio series. We know what a frame has to carry, and what an executive will notice is wrong.

Delivered in days, not months, with every AI-generated image disclosed as such.

Studio portfolio

Three worlds, built in-house.

These packages were produced on our own original properties to show the range: a 1953 broadcast satire, a Los Angeles heist serial and a grounded space opera.

Animated series · Season One: The Collective · 10 × 22 minutes

Planetary Broadcast Network

Alternate 1953. The nightly news is cheerful, the radiation is casual, and the USS Nebrahoma has vanished in the Pacific. As well-funded micro-nations declare independence and the robots ask for personhood, anchor James Dixon keeps calm and stays on the air — all the way into the Bermuda Triangle.

Original serial · 24 × 10-minute episodes · Los Angeles

The Fetchers

A professional thief who has never been truly seen is caught by the man who invented a way to know if a room has been entered. He lets her keep the prize — and her freedom — in exchange for a place on the next job.

Original science-fiction series · Season One · 8 × 50 minutes

The Horizon Dawn

Faster-than-light travel is never unassisted — every jump needs the permission of a living, AI-grown lattice of beacons. Vincent 'Latch' Naaktgeboren, a stripped hybrid and freelance courier, flies a ship with an off-register keelstone: a vessel that, legally, should not be able to move at all.

Packages

Start small. Scale to the room.

Tone Frames

from$1,200

5 days

  • 6 cinematic frames
  • 3 character portraits
  • Palette and reference sheet
Ask about Tone Frames

Lookbook

from$2,500

7–10 days

  • 12–20 page pitch lookbook (PDF + Keynote)
  • World, characters, tone and comps
  • Key art
Ask about Lookbook

Teaser / Animatic

from$7,500

about 3 weeks

  • 60–90 second animated teaser
  • Temp VO, score and sound design
  • Two revision rounds
Ask about Teaser / Animatic

Proof-of-Concept

from$15,000

5–6 weeks

  • 2–4 minute AI-assisted short
  • For financiers, buyers and talent
  • Directed shot-by-shot
Ask about Proof-of-Concept

Indicative starting prices. Every project is scoped and quoted in writing after a short call; nothing here is a binding offer. You own all deliverables.

How it works

Your pages in. A world out.

01

Intake

A 20-minute call and your existing material: pages, treatment, bible, references. Under NDA if you like.

02

Direction

Palette, light, period, lensing and comps — agreed with you before anything is generated.

03

Frames

Human-directed generation, character consistency and review rounds until it looks like your show.

04

Delivery

PDF and Keynote lookbook, stills, and MP4 teaser with temp sound — ready for the meeting.

Our AI policy

AI for visualization. Never for writing.

We side with writers. Following the principle in the WGA's 2023 agreement, the writer decides whether AI touches their material — and here it only ever makes pictures and temp sound.

Start a project

Tell us about the show.

No need to send pages yet. We'll reply within two business days to set up a short call.