What is Nine (nine.film)? The film studio, not the 2009 film

Search for "nine film" and you will mostly find a musical from 2009. Search for "nine.film" with the dot and you land here. This page is the short answer to the question people ask most often when they find us: what is Nine, who is behind it, and what does it actually make?

Nine in one sentence

Nine is a film studio on the web that makes short animated films for businesses, creatives and families, from what you already have: your website, one sentence about an idea, a script, or a recording of your own voice.

You do not need to know anything about making films. You say what the film is about, and Nine does the writing, the drawing, the voice, the music and the sound effects. You can watch every step, and you have the last word.

What you give it, and what you get back

• Your website, and Nine reads your colours, your lettering and the words you use, so the film looks like you and not like a template. There is a longer guide to turning your website into a short brand film.
• An idea in one sentence, and Nine writes the film around it.
• A script or a poem, and each paragraph becomes a scene.
• A voice recording, and the film is drawn around your own voice.

What comes back is a short animated film with a voice, music and sound effects, in wide, tall and square, ready for a website, a presentation or social media. The film is yours to use wherever you like. Your logo is used exactly as it is, never redrawn, and what you send is never used to train models.

How a film gets made

Nine is a small crew of film helpers, and each one checks one thing. One looks at the story and whether it hooks you in two seconds. One looks at the camera, one at the movement, one at the sound, one at whether your marketing lead would post it. A boss gives the whole film one score out of ten, and the film is reworked until it reaches the level you chose. The whole idea is set out on the Nine standard.

While it works, you can say what to change in plain words, and the film changes. If you would rather move things yourself, you can open the film in the Chamber and do it by hand. The page on how it works walks through every step.

Who makes Nine

Nine is the trading name of NorwAI AS, organisation number 920 631 908, in Oslo, Norway. It was started by Sondre Formo Lindheim, who spent more than ten years in film as a colourist, an editor and a cinematographer. That is a working life spent deciding whether a frame is good enough, and it is where the standard comes from. You can read more on the about page, or write to Sondre directly at Sondre@NorwAI.as.

NorwAI AS also makes Manual to Video, which turns assembly instructions into short videos. Same people, a different job.

Not to be confused with

nine.film is not affiliated with the 2009 film Nine, and has nothing to do with it. The name is shared by a few well known things, so here is the honest list of what we are not:

• Nine (2009), the musical film by Rob Marshall with Daniel Day-Lewis.
• 9 (2009), the animated film by Shane Acker.
• Nine Film, a film sales company at ninefilm.com.
• Nine Films Studio, at ninefilms.studio.

If you mean the studio that turns your website into a short animated film, that is us, at nine.film.

Why it is called Nine

Because nine is the bar. A ten would say a film cannot get any better, and nobody can honestly say that about a film. So ten stays out of reach, and every film gets its real score beside it, never a rounded up one.

What it costs, and what is free

Looking around is free: you can see your colours on our films and get film ideas with no account and no card. A film of your own comes with a plan, and every film shows its price before it starts and never costs more. The plans are on the prices page. If you are comparing tools, our honest look at Vyond alternatives puts Nine next to the editors you build films in yourself, and how to give notes on a film shows how changes work once a film is made.

Where to find Nine

The studio lives at nine.film. We are also on LinkedIn, on Instagram, on X, on Facebook, and on Discord, where people share films and ask questions. A person answers email within one working day.