Mago is a highly controllable video to video tool which quickly stylizes any video — from live-action films to 3D animations — into any aesthetic. We enable artists to create non-realistic content by providing them with specialized & production-ready style transfer tech.

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Solving The $300 000 Per Minute Problem

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Imagine spending six months and $300 000 to create just one minute of stylized animation. That's the reality for many teams today.

The bar for realistic content has never been lower - grab a decent smartphone, hit record, you’ve got it. However, making anything beyond what you can find in real life is an uphill struggle.

We founded Mago after experiencing this frustration firsthand. As professionals in animation, VFX, and game development, we've watched countless promising projects die because stylized content creation was:

• Difficult: Requiring specialized artistic skills few possess‍
• Expensive: Costing $10 000 to $300 000+ per minute
• ‍Time-consuming: Demanding complex pipelines and months of work

Meanwhile, existing AI video tools fall into two frustrating categories:

• ‍uncontrollable black boxes producing random results,
• or generalistic toolkits driven by feature creep.

Neither serve the world of professional production and the need for control and integration into existing workflows.

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Mago Studio: Video Style Transfer For The Masses

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Mago is an AI-native style transfer engine that transforms any type of video into extraordinary visuals while giving you complete creative control.

Whether you're working with live-action footage, 3D animations, motion graphics, or any other video format, our technology delivers stunning results with professional-grade consistency.

“Style transfer? Never heard of it.”

Shun the non-believer! Style transfer has been a big topic in the animation industry for years and years. To make a film in the style of Van Gogh, you’d have to paint every frame (that’s 65,000 frames for the beautiful Loving Vincent movie), and so naturally people have dreamed of automating part of that process.

But style transfer (or video to video) is broader than that. Mago can transform:

• Live-action footage into painterly animations
• 3D renders into stylized illustrations
• Motion graphics into hand-drawn aesthetics
• Game engine cinematics into unique visual styles
• Abstract animations into cohesive artistic visions

And so beyond pure style transfer, one can think of Mago as a universal renderer: use live-action actors, stock footage, a 3D setting, motion graphics and render it all as one cohesive result.

Our technology delivers three critical capabilities missing from existing AI tools:

1. Unprecedented Control: unlike black-box solutions, the goal of Mago is to give you access to advanced parameters that let you dial in exactly the look you want. We don’t believe in letting models do 100% of the work, but rather on letting you control the models as you wish: break down scenes, process elements separately, and maintain frame-to-frame consistency – essential for professional work.
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2. Production Integration: we've designed Mago to fit seamlessly into existing workflows as our roadmap includes collaboration features, version control, and upcoming integrations with industry-standard software. Animation pipelines and tools are already efficient and well-understood; no need to reinvent the wheel.
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3. Professional-Grade Output: our goal is to preserve motion coherence, spatial relationships, and nuanced details that make your content work as video, not just as a sequence of independent frames. Where other tools try to make any type of model work, we solely focus on video to video.

The result? What once took months now takes days. What once cost six figures now costs a fraction. What once required specialized teams now requires just you and your vision.

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The Team Redefining Video Production

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Our founding team combines deep technical expertise with extensive industry experience:

• Alvaro Lamarche Toloza (CEO) brings extensive experience from video games, VFX, and 3D animation, having collaborated with global studios and cultural institutions. His exploration of style transfer for the animation industry began in 2021 with support from an Epic Games MegaGrant.
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• ‍Aleksandr Spirin (CTO) has established himself as an innovator in AI creative tools. His projects, including ArcaneGAN and Face2Comics, have gone viral, demonstrating his ability to turn creative ideas into successful technologies. His project WarpFusion has accumulated over 150 million views.

Our team includes engineers with backgrounds in AI research and entertainment industry experience; we’re all passionate about building a new and unique creative tool.

It’s a bit of a challenge to be honest, but so much more fun than working on forms and landing pages.

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How We're Different

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The AI video space is crowded with tools that make big promises but fall short for professional creators:

• General-purpose AI video platforms offer broad functionality but lack the specialized controls and consistency needed for professional work. They're optimized for generating content from text, not for transforming existing videos with precise control.
  
  
• One-click style tools function as simple filters that produce a limited variety of results and offer minimal control over the style application process. They're great for hobbyists but insufficient for production environments.
  
  
• Traditional production pipelines provide control but at prohibitive costs and timelines that make stylized content inaccessible to all but the largest studios.

Mago occupies a unique position: professional-grade control and quality with the speed and accessibility of AI, applicable to any video format. We're not trying to be everything for everyone—we're building the definitive solution for video style transfer, regardless of how your original content was created.

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Our Vision: Unshackling Visual Expression

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Our goal isn't just making another AI video tool—it's fundamentally changing how stylized content is created. It’s to unleash an unlimited stream of shapes, colors and styles into the world.

We're building towards:

• A tool that makes complex artistic styles accessible without sacrificing creative control
• Seamless integration with software creative professionals already use
• A platform that empowers small teams to achieve visual results previously possible only for major studios

Beyond technology, we're passionate about the cultural impact of democratizing stylized production. When more diverse voices can express themselves in more diverse visual languages, our entire creative landscape becomes richer. Stories that might never have been told can find their audience.

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What's Next

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We're currently launching our closed beta, prioritizing creative professionals in animation, game development, motion design, advertising, and independent film. Our next focus will expand to enterprise partnerships, with several studios already in discussions for custom implementations.

Our technology roadmap includes:

• Advanced segmentation tools for scene element isolation
• Direct plugin integration with industry-standard software
• Expanded style transfer parameters for even greater control
• Collaborative workspaces for team-based projects

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Join the Visual Revolution

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Transform. Transfix. Transcend. That's more than our tagline—it's our commitment to changing what's possible in visual storytelling.

If you're tired of compromising your creative vision due to budget or technical constraints, Mago was built for you. Whether you're working with live action, 3D animation, motion graphics, or any other video format, we're putting unprecedented creative power in your hands.

Join our waitlist at mago.studio and be among the first to experience the future of video production.

The visual revolution starts now.

— Alvaro, Aleksandr, and the Mago team