Every book, faithfully
We animate the Bible book by book — Genesis to Revelation — staying true to the text, not a loose retelling of it. The scripture leads; the animation follows.
About the studio
The greatest story ever told,
told with everything we have.
PrayWorks Studios is a small independent animation studio in Sweden, and the home of Bible in a Nutshell — the animated series bringing every book of the Bible to the screen, free on YouTube.
Who we are
Bible in a Nutshell began in June 2023 with a simple conviction: the greatest stories ever told deserve to be seen — not summarized, not watered down, but put on screen with the same care the world gives its blockbusters.
Today 443,000 people subscribe to that conviction on YouTube, and the animations have been watched more than 37 million times. Around the series has grown a studio: nine-plus books of the Bible in production as full animated films, more than 1,600 cinematic shots so far, and eighty-one interactive episodes on this site — every scene built from real frames of the films, every scripture quoted word for word.
We are deliberately small. No offices, no board — a studio built around the work, funded by the people watching it. Everything we are asked about money is answered plainly on the support page, and everything we make for the series premieres free on YouTube.
What we believe
Scripture deserves the screen it was written for.
For thousands of years the Bible has been passed on through word, print and paint. We believe the next chapter is animation — vivid, cinematic, and instantly understandable in any language, at any age.
Cinema-grade animation
Character-driven 3D animation with consistent casts, real cinematography and a visual style built to stand beside major studio productions.
Free for the world
Every episode of Bible in a Nutshell is free to watch and share on YouTube — permanently. No paywall between anyone on Earth and the Word — that's the whole point.
How it's made
New tools, old discipline.
The honest answer to "how does a small studio make this?" deserves more than a buzzword — here is the whole pipeline, plainly.
The text leads
Every screenplay is drawn directly from the book being animated, with quotations from public-domain translations, word for word. Where scripture is silent we make careful artistic choices — we never rewrite the story or add doctrine.
Every shot is designed
Each book is storyboarded scene by scene, with a consistent cast carried across every shot — more than 1,600 designed shots so far, each with its own staging, light and lens.
Directed, take after take
The shots are rendered with new-generation AI animation, directed one at a time — often through many takes — and every frame is reviewed by human eyes. Anything that looks wrong is rejected and reshot.
We say the quiet part plainly: the rendering is done with cutting-edge AI tools, and the direction is done by people. That is how a small independent studio can put cinema-grade scripture on screen and give it away free — the tools are new, but the discipline is old: fidelity to the text, and care for every frame.
Faithful — and honest about it
What you see is what the text says.
Word for word
Every scripture quotation in the episodes comes from public-domain translations — the World English Bible and the King James Version — quoted exactly, with its reference shown.
Marked when imagined
Where an episode dramatises a gap — a journey scripture skips, a quiet moment between verses — the scene is labelled Imagined instead of carrying a citation. You always know which is which.
Enoch, clearly labelled
The library spans eight books of the Bible plus the Book of Enoch — an ancient text preserved outside the canon, told with the same care and always labelled as exactly what it is.
Questions, screenings, partnerships?
A person reads every message — churches, schools, press and curious viewers alike.