Google adds five artist-built Flow tools for characters, effects and camera angles

A single phone take can become several camera views, and one character can appear at different ages without losing their recognizable look, Google says. On November 12, 2026, the company released five artist-built tools in Google Flow, its AI creative studio, covering tasks from early character development to visual treatments and footage enhancement.

New views from one recorded performance

Pocket Studio starts with everyday phone footage. Google says it generates multiple camera angles from a single take and improves the image quality while keeping the actor’s original performance intact. The additional views are generated from that recording, rather than supplied as footage from several cameras.

Its creator, visual development artist and filmmaker Ryan McCoy, drew on more than two decades of work in previsualization and visual effects for major motion pictures. His tool focuses on taking an existing performance and changing how it is presented, rather than starting with a story concept or a still image. Preserving that performance is Google’s stated promise, not an independently measured result.

A consistent style, or a character across decades

Character Poster and Character Arc address different kinds of continuity. Artist and filmmaker James Gerde built Character Poster to turn simple story concepts into designed visuals. Gerde treats his social feeds as curated galleries, where a consistent appearance matters. Google describes the tool as a way to maintain a signature style across social stories and reduce production work.

Character Arc, built by filmmaker and visual storyteller Anurag Tiwari, instead follows a person through different ages and life stages. Google says it preserves the character’s core look as those stages change. The intended use is character development before full production: exploring how someone looks over time while keeping them recognizable as the same person.

Tiwari is using Character Arc for his documentary Children of the Sun. The film features present-day interviews with people reflecting on events from 1974. He is using the tool to trace the protagonist from childhood through adulthood, connecting different periods of the subject’s life during character development.

It helps me build his background while keeping him recognizable as the same person across different periods of the story

Anurag Tiwari, filmmaker, in Google’s announcement

Retro images and an impossible lens

Tiwari also built Pixel Machine, drawing on his interest in retro digital imagery. Rather than aiming for a polished photographic look, it converts images into bitmap, ASCII, CRT, pixel-art and glitch styles. Google pitches those treatments for title designs, transitions and music-video visuals, giving the same image material a deliberately stylized finish.

Lucid Glass takes a different route to visual effects. Artist and creative director Ezra Paulekas designed it around the way light passes through glass. It generates prisms, halos, refractions and optical blooms. Google calls it an “impossible lens,” describing effects intended to go beyond what photographers and filmmakers could capture with physical glass alone.

Google says all five tools are available to try in Flow now. The studio also lets users build their own creative tools; this release supplies specific artist-built workflows spanning concept design, character development, image treatments and the enhancement of recorded footage.