AI Short Drama Generator

At a glance

Five generation stages, and where you step in

1. Script analysis — one pass reads the whole script and returns the cast, locations, props and an episode-by-episode outline, each episode carrying a conflict arc and an end-of-episode hook. Yours to change: every description, plus the project name and the three style axes, before anything is drawn.
2. Reference art — full-body 9:16 character sheets, location plates and prop shots in the render style you picked. Yours to change: regenerate any sheet, upload your own image in its place, or add a state variant such as an outfit change, a ruined room or a drawn blade.
3. Storyboard scripts — one episode at a time, cut into 4–15 second segments with shot descriptions, dialogue and per-shot durations. Yours to change: the text of any segment, free; asking the model for a fresh pass costs the same as the first one.
4. Per-segment video — each segment is generated against the reference art for the characters and places it names. Yours to change: regenerate a single segment without re-billing the episode; every take is kept as a version you can switch back to.
5. Compositing — the segments are joined into one episode file. Yours to change: swap a segment and re-composite.

The same five stages run whether you start from a finished script (script to video) or from a novel that still has to be adapted (novel to video); the micro drama page covers why the vertical format needs a pipeline in the first place.

What stops the cast from drifting

Drift is the failure mode that kills generated series: by episode 5 the lead has a different jaw, and the audience stops believing it is the same show. Three mechanisms work against it.

• The cast is generated once, not per shot. Character sheets live in the project, so no later shot re-invents a face from a text description.
• References are attached, not described. Face and body crops from the sheet ride along with every segment that names the character, so the model is matching a picture instead of interpreting adjectives.
• Links are by id, not by name. Storyboards reference assets by identifier, so renaming a character halfway through a project does not silently break the reference chain.

The mechanics are laid out in the character-consistency guide.

What this generator will not do

• Clone a voice you do not own. Voices are matched from a preset library, and you may upload a sample of your own; there is no path here for reproducing someone else's voice.
• Burn in a subtitle track. Text that belongs inside the frame is written into the shot; platform captions are added after export.
• Re-edit or dub footage you upload. The generator renders new video from the storyboard. It is not a post house for existing clips, and it does not swap faces onto live-action footage.
• Produce one continuous shot of unlimited length. Each generation is bounded by the model tier's cap; episode length comes from stacking segments.

What a generated episode costs

Nothing here is a seat licence — you buy credits and spend them per unit of work. Script analysis is 4 credits per 3,333 characters of English text (reference images are billed separately, with 15 free per account and 7 credits each after that on the default image model); each episode's storyboard is 1 credit per 333 characters of that episode; video starts at 10 credits per second of output (≈ $0.06/s at the lowest credit price), and compositing is 1 credit per second. A 90-second episode therefore lands around 990 credits of video plus compositing on the cheapest tier. Every account gets 15 free reference images — characters, scenes or props, in any mix, across any project — and in your first project the storyboard for episode 1 is free as well. Packages start at $1.49; memberships from $7.99/month add monthly credits, higher concurrency, custom style prompts and generated video without the AIGC badge. The pricing page carries the full table.

How long it takes, measured

The numbers below are not estimates. They are the median and ninth-decile run times of every job that finished successfully on scenemixer.com in the thirty days to 20 September 2026 — machine time for the job itself, with queue wait excluded.

They stack differently than they read, because segments generate in parallel. A typical episode here is seven segments of about fourteen seconds each; on the free plan three jobs run at once, so those seven segments are three waves — roughly ten minutes — with the storyboard before them and the composite after. Call it a quarter of an hour of machine time per episode, and less than that on a paid plan, where the concurrency ceiling rises from three to twenty.

See one shot before you spend anything

Every account gets one free preview of up to 5 seconds. It is not a stock demo reel: it renders the opening shot of your episode, with your own character sheets attached as references, on the 480P tier — the same path a paid segment takes, minus the bill. The rest of the starting allowance works the same way: 50 credits at sign-up, 15 reference images per account, and your first project's episode-1 storyboard. That is enough to carry a real script from upload to a rendered shot and judge the result before deciding whether the series is worth paying for.

Generated natively in fifteen languages

Pick the dialogue language in Step 1 and the whole series is performed in it, with the target-region setting moving names, faces and settings to that market at the same time. The sample series below were each produced that way, one per language.

Frequently asked questions

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