Bonsai Studio was a standalone app for making manga with 3D tools and generative AI. You could upload any VRM model, pose it by hand or from the library, draw with 2D tools like Photoshop’s, place text and arrange panels. Generative AI passes then polished the result or applied different styles.

I made all of it: the Unity app, mostly in UI Toolkit, and the AWS backend, with my own models deployed, container orchestration and autoscaling. The user base was small and I discontinued it. The market was thin, better funded tools arrived soon after and it was not profitable enough.