I Built a Poor Man’s Pixar Using Python, Gemini, and My Sense of Humor

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January 9, 2026 at 07:55 AM
I Built a Poor Man’s Pixar Using Python, Gemini, and My Sense of Humor

The Stickverse is a scrappy, Python-based animation pipeline that turns a raw text story into a fully voiced, lip-synced video. It uses Google's Gemini to parse the script, a tool to record your own bad voice acting, and OpenCV to draw the frames.