HocusPocus – Major Update
HocusPocus is a local studio for turning an idea into a full production: story, images, video clips, comics, music, voices and 3D, with every intermediate step visible, editable and recoverable. The latest development work is now on the main branch.
What you can do with HocusPocus
Talk to the studio
Ask the Wizard, or any connected MCP agent, to open scenes, edit images and run production workflows for you.
Also in this update
There are many fixes to gallery updates, project persistence and production recovery, plus new in-app help.
Direct films, music videos and trailers
Director turns a brief or a song into reviewable shots, prompts and references. Approve each step by hand, or let Auto mode go from analysis to planning, images, clips and final assembly.
Drop in a track and Director reads its tempo, sections and energy, then places shots on the beat with the same characters throughout.
Productions keeps the whole thread, so if one clip fails you regenerate that shot only instead of starting over.
Build a world once and reuse it everywhere
Story Lab is your production bible: premise, world rules, locations, cast, relationships and story beats.
Build stories and episodic projects, reuse characters and locations, and carry approved references into comics, films, trailers and music videos.
Export a .storypack to move a whole project.
Make comics, then film them
Comics plans pages and panels, drafts a script you can rewrite, generates art per panel, adds lettering and exports PDF, CBZ or PNG.
Translate the speech balloons without touching the artwork.
Turn an approved comic into a film: each panel becomes the real first frame of its shot.
Create images and clips by hand
Studio is the manual bench for image, video and audio, with references and LoRAs. Everything lands in the gallery, ready to reuse.
New: create and edit images with Qwen Image 2.1, including 2K output, transparent images, batch edits and cropped references.
Video with MiniMax H3 (picture plus native stereo audio), Wan, Hunyuan Video and LTX. New: H3 clips up to 30 seconds, and their duration is now kept when you reopen or regenerate them.
Browse a library of 1,000 real MiniMax H3 styles and apply a look to your own shots.
Music, voices and lip-sync
New: native YuE2 and AuK music generation, with better handling of songs, settings and project saves.
New: give characters custom voices by importing or recording a sample, preview mouth poses and prepare lip-synced scenes.
3D and scene compositing
Generate 3D models from text, one image or several views, and retexture them without touching the original.
Character Creator goes from one photo to a 360° turntable to a 3D mesh.
3D Video is a real compositor: place models, images, lights and in-world effects like portals, beams and magic circles, then export the shot. There is also a 2.5D layer compositor.
New: dark-fantasy and top-down scene templates, reusable shots and time cards for your edits.
Platform support
Windows is supported. An initial macOS core/remote mode is included, but full platform validation is still pending, and local NVIDIA generation is not available in macOS mode.
HocusPocus is an experimental, non-commercial fork of Blizaine/Maestro, built on WanGP.
https://github.com/IAnMove/hocuspocus