What Is AU Studio?

What Is AU Studio?

AU Studio is a workspace for creating fictional chats and social media content for your stories. Build characters, give them fictional social accounts, and bring their interactions to life through visual scenes.

Whether your story unfolds through a private conversation, an Instagram post, or a lock screen notification, AU Studio helps you keep those moments together in one project.

What Can You Create?

You can use AU Studio to create:

• Chat conversations between characters.
• Group chats and direct messages.
• Fictional social media posts and stories.
• Character profiles and inbox previews.
• Call scenes, lock screens, and notes.

Customize your scenes, check their appearance in the preview, and export supported scenes as PNG images.

Who Is AU Studio For?

AU Studio is designed for:

• Alternate Universe (AU) writers who tell stories through fictional digital interactions.
• Fanfiction writers who want to visualize conversations and social moments.
• Roleplay writers who develop characters and their relationships.
• Content creators who use fictional chats and social media visuals in their storytelling.

You can start with a single conversation or organize multiple scenes within a larger story.

Everything You Create Is Fictional

AU Studio simulates the appearance of digital conversations and social media content.

Character accounts are fictional identities inside your project. They do not connect to real social media accounts, send messages, publish posts, or make calls.

Names, messages, timestamps, engagement counts, and other scene details are storytelling elements you control. An exported image is a visual representation of your scene—not evidence of real activity.

When sharing your work, provide enough context for viewers to understand that it is fictional.

How the Workspace Fits Together

AU Studio uses four core building blocks:

1. Project: the container for your story.
2. Character: a person in that story.
3. Social Account: a character’s fictional identity on a platform.
4. Scene: an individual digital moment, such as a conversation or post.

Characters and their accounts can be reused across scenes, helping you maintain a consistent fictional world.

Where to Start

Begin with a small idea: two characters having one conversation.

Create a project, add the characters and any required accounts, then build your first scene. Preview the result and export it when it is ready.

Before you begin, read Understanding Projects, Characters, Accounts, and Scenes to learn how these building blocks work together.