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Google adds five artist-built creative tools to Flow

Google has released five artist-built tools for character design, visual effects and phone footage in Flow. One generates different camera angles from a single take, while another depicts a character across different ages.

AI.info Team · · fact-checked · against 2 sources ↓ · Published 12 Nov 2026

Google Flow users can now try five creative tools built by artists and filmmakers, including one that turns phone footage into multiple camera angles. Google released the additions to its AI creative studio on November 12.

The new tools also cover character design, retro image styles and simulated glass effects. Google says users can try them in Flow and build creative tools of their own.

Characters over time

Artist and filmmaker James Gerde built Character Poster to turn simple story concepts into designed visuals. According to Google, it is intended to help creators maintain a consistent style across social stories and can save hours of production work.

Filmmaker and visual storyteller Anurag Tiwari built Character Arc to depict how a character changes over time. It is designed to show the same character at different ages and stages of life while retaining the character’s core appearance, before full production begins.

Tiwari is using the tool for his documentary Children of the Sun to trace its protagonist from childhood to adulthood. The documentary features present-day interviews with subjects reflecting on events from 1974, and Tiwari says the tool helps him develop the protagonist’s background while keeping him recognizable across the story’s different periods.

Pixels, glass and phone footage

Tiwari also created Pixel Machine, drawing on his interest in retro digital aesthetics. It converts images into bitmap, ASCII, CRT, pixel-art and glitch styles for uses including title treatments, transitions and music-video visuals.

Artist and creative director Ezra Paulekas designed Lucid Glass to reproduce effects associated with light passing through glass, including prisms, halos, refractions and optical blooms. Google describes the tool as a way for photographers and filmmakers to generate effects beyond what glass alone can capture.

Pocket Studio comes from visual development artist and filmmaker Ryan McCoy. Drawing on more than two decades in previsualization and visual effects for major motion pictures, McCoy built it to turn everyday phone footage into more polished shots.

From a single take, Pocket Studio generates multiple camera angles and improves visual fidelity while preserving the actor’s original performance, according to Google.

Building and sharing tools

The new releases join a Flow feature that lets users describe custom tools and workflows in natural language. In May, Google said all Flow users globally could use existing tools, while Google AI subscribers could also create and remix them.

Its examples of custom tools included image editors, video resizers and custom shaders; users can share a tool with others, who can remix it. The company also cited an early-access partner’s tool, pixelBento, which László Gaal created to apply post-processing effects such as lo-fi and glitch styles.

That May update also introduced Flow Agent, built with Gemini models for tasks such as brainstorming, creating and editing. Google said the agent could generate variations, batch-edit assets and organize them into collections, and was available to all Flow users globally.

The company said features could vary by Google AI subscription tier, platform and region, and specified an age requirement of 18 or older.