About Low Poly Pictures

Low Poly Pictures is a free movie maker that runs in your browser. You pick a set, cast actors and props, make them move and talk, add sound effects, music, your own voice and 3D titles, and play back your movie. It's made for everyone who made movies like this in the nineties, and for the kids they make movies with today.

Where it comes from

In 1995 Microsoft released 3D Movie Maker, a program for making 3D animated movies. In May 2022 Microsoft published its source code and content as open source under the MIT License. Since then the community has kept it alive: 3DMMForever and 3DMMEx (by Ben Stone and contributors) brought the code to modern compilers, 64-bit Windows, Linux and macOS.

Low Poly Pictures takes the 3DMMEx engine and compiles it to WebAssembly, so the original program runs in a browser tab, with the original actors, sets, sounds and music. On top of that it adds what a browser needs: saving in the browser, downloads, video and GIF export, sharp scaling at any window size, and sound and music through the web.

The whole story, from 1995 to today, is on the history page.

Credits

• Microsoft 3D Movie Maker (1995) and its 2022 open-source release: © Microsoft Corporation, MIT License.
• 3DMMForever and 3DMMEx: the community projects that modernized the code (MIT License).
• BRender 3-D technology © 1995 Argonaut Technologies Ltd (MIT License).
• Original 1995 content development: Dave Landry. Content production: Jarnigoine Productions, Illumin8. Music: Ted Allen, Stan LePard, Jerry Shroeder, Randy Budnikas. Voice and motion talent: Mike Shapiro, Anne Christianson, Luc Tremblay.
• Music playback: FluidSynth and the GeneralUser GS SoundFont by S. Christian Collins. Fonts: Comic Relief (with Comic Sans's letter widths, so 1995 text lines up as it did), Comic Neue and the Liberation fonts. Full list on the Licenses page.

Not affiliated with Microsoft

Low Poly Pictures is an independent project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft. Microsoft and 3D Movie Maker are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.

Your movies

Movies you make are saved in your browser on your own device. Nothing is uploaded. See the privacy page.

Who makes this

Low Poly Pictures is an independent project, not a company product. It's built on the work of the original 1995 team and the open-source community (see the credits above), and it's free.

Contact

Questions, bugs or ideas: hello@lowpolypictures.com.