Low Poly Pictures

Low Poly Pictures

The 1995 3D movie maker you grew up with, back in your browser. Pick a scene, cast your actors, press record.

🎬 Start making a movie

Free. Nothing to install. No account.

New here, or a little rusty?

Lights, camera, polygons.

Everything from Microsoft's 1995 3D Movie Maker is here: 45 actors, 21 props, 12 sets with 188 camera angles, hundreds of sound effects and music clips, 3D words, and the sample movies. It runs right in a browser tab on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chromebook.

Three frames from movies made with it: a haunted castle at night, a man with binoculars in a city park, and a gold 3D title

Remember it like this? Now see it like this.

Same movie, same 1995 engine. Drag the slider: on the left, the picture exactly as it looked on your family computer; on the right, the HD stage with smooth colours and sharper sets. Switch back to the original look any time in Settings.

A city street from a sample movie, as it looked in 1995: blocky pixels and dithered colours The same city street in HD: sharp edges, smooth colours and a detailed background 1995HD

Watch a movie

The sample movies that came with the 1995 program, playing in the studio. Press stop any time and change them: they're yours to remix.

A city street with shops and lamp posts, from the sample movie City TourCity Tour A castle on a hill at night, from the sample movie HauntedHaunted A patient lying on a wooden table, from the sample movie HospitalHospital A man with sunglasses looking through binoculars in a city parkIn the Park
The studio: a market street scene with actors, a gold 3D word and the scene and frame controls

A real movie studio

Drag actors into place, make them walk, dance and talk, move the camera, add titles, sound effects and music, then play it back. Every frame you record is yours to change.

Open the studio

Actors and props

Walk, run, wave, dance: every actor has dozens of moves and costumes.

Your own voice

Record lines with your microphone and give every actor a voice.

Music and sounds

300 music clips and nearly 400 sound effects from the original, ready to drop in.

Video and GIF

Export your movie as a video with sound, or as an animated GIF, to share anywhere.

Saved in your browser

Movies stay on your computer. Download them as files any time, or open old ones.

Opens 1995 movies

Got .3mm files from back then? They play here just like they did.

Questions

Is it free?

Yes. No ads, no account, nothing to buy.

Where are my movies saved?

In your browser, on this computer. Nothing is uploaded. Use “Download movie” to keep a copy as a .3mm file, the same format the 1995 program used, and open it again any time.

Does it work on a phone or tablet?

It opens there, but the studio was made for a mouse: it's best on a computer with a mouse or trackpad.

Which browsers work?

Current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. The first visit downloads about 30 MB; after that it starts quickly.

Is this the original 3D Movie Maker?

It's built on the source code and content Microsoft released as open source in 2022, through the community project 3DMMEx. The engine is the original one, compiled to run in a browser, so movies look and play the way they did in 1995. More on the About page and in the story since 1995.

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