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Create storytelling videos with AI

A practical workflow for 10–30 minute horror or narrative episodes using AI tools for script, visuals, animation, and sound.

1. Concept & Story Development

Define your theme, tone, and core ideas. Use AI to explore variations, twists, and character backstories.

Pick the overall vibe: urban legends, psychological horror, tech horror, cosmic dread, or surreal dark comedy. Decide if this is a short (30s–3m) or a 10–30 minute episode. Outline 5–10 core ideas and map them into a 3-act structure (Setup → Conflict → Twist). Use AI to draft scripts, alt endings, and dialogue variations until the pacing feels tight.

2. Visual Style & Character Design

Lock in your look: dark anime, cartoon horror, or cinematic realism. Create reusable character and environment references.

Decide how your series should look and feel. Use AI image models to explore style options, then build a simple style guide with palettes, line weight, framing, and aspect ratio. Generate character sheets from multiple angles and key expressions so your cast stays consistent across episodes.

3. Storyboarding & Scene Planning

Turn your script into a sequence of shots with clear camera angles, timing, and transitions.

Break the script into shots. Aim for 1–2 seconds per shot for shorts and 3–10 seconds for longer scenes. Sketch or generate boards to confirm staging. Mark where jump scares, reveals, and emotional turns happen so animation and sound can support those beats.

4. Animation & Motion Generation

Animate your scenes using text→video, image→video, or motion-capture-powered workflows.

Once you have key stills, generate motion using AI tools or mocap. Keep shots short and modular so you can reorder them in the edit. For horror, lean into camera drift, slow zooms, flickers, and subtle distortions instead of constant movement.

5. Sound, Voice & Music

Give your story a voice, a soundscape, and a score that carries the tension.

Decide whether you want naturalistic acting or stylised voices. Layer ambience under quiet scenes and use sharp sound cues for scares. Use silence as a design element, not an accident—pauses create unease.

6. Video Assembly & Editing

Combine all your elements into a cohesive final episode.

Import all rendered clips, audio, and music into your editor. Build a rough cut, then tighten timing. Add titles, credits, and subtitles. Use colour grading and effects (grain, blur, vignettes) to unify the visual mood.

7. Publishing, Distribution & Scaling

Ship episodes regularly and treat your process as a reusable pipeline.

Export platform-specific versions (YouTube, Shorts, TikTok, Reels) with appropriate aspect ratios and lengths. Track performance and comments to see which themes land best. Document your pipeline so you can hand off parts of the work or automate them.