Melted Crayons TV vs Rokoko Create

Melted Crayons TV is a browser-based AI storytelling studio for creating comics, graphic novels, storyboards, animated videos, and published story pages. Character references help keep figures visually consistent across panels, clips, and pages, and the studio offers more than 30 art styles, including comic book, anime, watercolor, LEGO, and cyberpunk. Creators can set motion direction for each shot and add character voices or narration. Outputs include interactive comic pages, MP4 video, narrated read-alongs, PDF and print, and social cuts. Published stories can include trackable short links and QR codes with click analytics. The free Sketch tier provides 30 monthly credits for image-only work; it exports watermarked 1080p static comic video and does not include panel animation. Paid plans start at $9.99/mo, with listed tiers varying in credits, voices, resolution, animation, and commercial-use terms. Character photo background extraction runs in the browser, and the maker says the photo does not leave the device for that step. Account content is retained while an account is active; after deletion, backups may take up to 30 days to expire.

Rokoko Create generates 3D motion from video clips or text prompts, which users can edit in Rokoko Studio and export as FBX, BVH, or CSV. Video-to-motion uses Vision AI, with monthly processing allowances that vary by plan. Starter and paid plans include unlimited text-to-motion clips, but Studio imports are capped by plan except on Pro. Rokoko says generated video-to-motion and text-to-motion data can be used commercially. Exported FBX or BVH files are described as compatible with skeletons including UE5 Manny, HIK, and Mixamo, and with software such as Blender, Unreal Engine, Unity, Cinema 4D, Maya, Houdini, MotionBuilder, and iClone. Rokoko Studio also supports real-time plugins for several of those tools. The free Starter plan includes 30 seconds of Vision AI processing and five Studio imports per month, plus one month of cloud storage. Basic is listed at $12 a month, while the pricing note says paid plans start at $10/mo (annual). New accounts can try Plus or Pro for free for 7 days.