An independent project by Francis Pwavwe

Why it exists

Creative projects tend to scatter. A script lives in one app, pictures in another, music and voice somewhere else, and the edit in a fourth. Keeping track of what belongs to which project — and what each experiment cost — takes energy away from the work itself.

AZ Studio brings those workflows together. A project keeps its writing, images, music, narration and edit in one place, and the steps that cost money show an estimate before they run.

Room to experiment

Just as important, AZ Studio is a place to try things: a narrated film made from still images, a music video cut to the beat of a song, an essay turned into an audio edition. Some experiments become finished work. Others are quietly set aside — and that’s part of the point.

Who is behind it

Francis Pwavwe designed and built AZ Studio, and uses it for his own work. He also writes The Pwavwe Papers, an independent blog of essays — some of which now have audio editions made in AZ Studio, which you can hear in the showcase.

There’s no company or team behind AZ Studio at this stage. It runs on Google Cloud and uses Google’s generative AI models for video, images, voice and music, with its own planning, checking and editing tools around them.

What happens next

The aim is to open AZ Studio to other people gradually — first to a small number of invited people, with clear limits, then more widely if that goes well. The Explore page shows what works today and what is still being prepared.