Trumbone 1.1 Indigo

Today we're proud to release Indigo, the next evolution of Trumbone. It's been months in the making, and it's a huge leap forward for Trumbone's capabilities: video quality, lip sync realism, and scene consistency. On top of that there's a whole side of Trumbone that didn't exist before, built on the photographs you already have.

Upload a photo off your phone and Trumbone's Photo Looks uses cutting-edge AI to transform your family into astronauts, royalty in oils, or cartoon characters. Everyone still looks like themselves, which is the part people don't expect.

When one comes back close but not quite, you tell it what to change in your own words, whether that's warmer light, a smile, or a park behind you.

Trumbone's Property Tours work the same way. Add the photos from a listing and it builds a stunning walkthrough video, set to a wide selection of music. The camera only moves inside what you actually shot, so the house on screen is the house you photographed.

Scene consistency with Scene DNA is the one you notice the most, and helps take your videos to a whole new level. A three minute video is about fifty separate clips, and the model creating shot forty has never seen shot two. Trumbone now reads your script and gives every recurring object and place its own reference picture. The guitar in shot forty is the guitar from shot two, and the kitchen you come back to is the kitchen you left. Upload your product or your logo once and it shows up the same way in everything you make after that.

It's the biggest step we've taken since we launched, it's on your account right now, and there's nothing to switch on.

One photo in, twenty four ways out

Upload a picture of yourself, your kids, whoever you like, and pick what Trumbone transforms them into.

You can be royalty in an oil portrait, a superhero mid-flight, a clay figure, or a face in a comic book panel. Four of the looks are decades rather than costumes, from a 1950s snapshot to an eighties yearbook photo.

Photo Looks is not only for fun, you can transform a selfie into a professional headshot for LinkedIn or your website, or add dramatic lighting to your pic.

A flatly lit phone snapshot of a woman against a beige wall — The phone photo

Studio Headshot

Photograph transformed into an Old Hollywood scene — Old Hollywood

Photograph transformed into an astronaut — Astronaut

Photograph transformed into a royal portrait — Royalty

Photograph transformed into an oil portrait — Oil portrait

Photograph transformed into a superhero — Superhero

Photograph transformed into a western scene — Western

Photograph transformed into a viking — Viking

Photograph transformed into a 1920s portrait — Roaring twenties

Photograph transformed into pop art — Pop art

Photograph transformed into a storybook illustration — Storybook

Photograph transformed into claymation — Claymation

Photograph transformed into a neon eighties portrait — Neon eighties

Say what to change

A look gets you most of the way. The last bit is usually one small thing: the light's cold, the background's busy, nobody was smiling.

There's a line under every finished photo that allows you to type what you want changed. Nothing gets overwritten, and every version stays under the photo.

The house you actually photographed

Add the photos from a listing and Trumbone builds a tour worth sending to a buyer, branded with your own card templates and overlays.

Exterior of a mid century house — 1 · Exterior

Open plan living room with a window wall — 2 · Living

Kitchen with pale green cabinetry — 3 · Kitchen

Main bedroom with morning light — 4 · Primary

Bathroom with a freestanding tub — 5 · Bath

Back garden with a stone terrace — 6 · Yard

Five seconds of the kitchen, straight out of the tour above. The camera travels most of the way across the floor, so the island and the stools sweep out of frame while the shelving and the garden window hold their distance. That difference in how fast near things move against far ones is what tells your eye it's a camera and not a photograph.

A story that keeps its cast

A music video is where consistency gets hardest, and it's where our new Scene DNA does the most for you. Indigo keeps her the same woman in the last shot as in the first, in the same jacket, carrying the same guitar.

This came from a single prompt: eight shots, four rooms, one guitar, and a last shot that comes home to the bedroom the first one started in.

Close-up of fingers on the strings of a cherry red guitar at dawn — 1 · Bedroom

Wide shot of a musician picking up the red guitar — 2 · Bedroom

The musician on a night bus with a closed guitar case — 3 · Night bus

The musician in a basement doorway with case and guitar — 4 · Basement

Overhead wide of a basement rehearsal with an amp — 5 · Basement

Close-up of two hands playing the red guitar — 6 · Basement

Extreme wide from the back of a small club — 7 · Club

Back in the same bedroom at dawn with the guitar on the bed — 8 · Bedroom

Indigo adds some fun features like Photo Looks and Property Tours, but it's a huge step forward as a creative tool for musicians, helping them bring their visions to life in a way that was previously completely unattainable for most.

A new generation of DIY bands and artists can now make the video they've always dreamed about for their song.

Where the pictures come from

When your script is written, Trumbone pulls out the people, the objects and the places it keeps coming back to, and gives each one its own reference picture.

Reference picture of a cherry red hollow body guitar alone against plain gray — The guitar from the video above, cut from the object sheet. Every shot that needs it is handed this.

Places work the same way. Come back to the kitchen in shot twenty two and you get the kitchen from shot nine, not the alley you were standing in a moment ago.

Indigo is available today

Indigo is live for everyone, on every plan, with nothing to switch on. It runs on any new script you generate, and an older project picks it up the moment you regenerate its script.

If you make something with it, I'd like to see it.

Try it free