AI Stop Motion Video Generator

Quick answer: SceneMixer's Stop-motion group holds the Claymation look: hand-pressed clay figures, thumbprint textures, miniature sets, the slightly uneven motion of a film shot a frame at a time. Choose it in Step 1, write the story, and the cast and sets are drawn once in clay, then every shot is generated in that look with the dialogue and music in the same pass. No armatures, no lights, no eleven months in a garage. Video is 10 credits a second on the default tier.

Still from “Rocket Pup”, an AI short drama generated end-to-end by SceneMixer (7 characters, 1 episode) — Sample: “Rocket Pup” — Family 3D Animation, 1 episode, produced end-to-end by SceneMixer from the script · watch the episodes

Brief for AI Create: A claymation short: a lighthouse keeper's teapot comes to life every night to argue about the weather; one kitchen, one lamp room, three two-minute episodes, no narrator.

SceneMixer at a glance	What you get
Video price	From $0.06 a second (10 credits) on the default tier, up to $0.47 a second on the top tier; every price is shown before you press the button
Clip length	Up to 30 seconds per generated segment; an episode is composited from its segments at 1 credit a second
One episode, worked out	A 60-second episode on the default tier is about 660 credits (video plus compositing), about $4.11 at the lowest credit price; a 10-episode series of 90-second episodes from a 30,000-character novel is about 10,026 credits, about $62
Dialogue	Spoken in the video itself, one voice per character, in any of 15 languages
Formats	9:16 vertical or 16:9 landscape; 480P to 1080P, plus a 2K tier
Free to start	50 credits on signup, 15 free setup images, a free storyboard for the first episode and a free 5-second video preview
Who uses it	2,900+ creators have generated with SceneMixer (accounts with at least one generation, counted November 2026)
Input	A script, a novel or a one-line idea; .txt, .docx and .md uploads

What the look does

Claymation reads as handmade. Figures have fingerprints and seams; sets are miniatures with visible paint; light is a single warm lamp. The model keeps those tells in every shot, which is the whole charm, and the look forgives what video models get wrong: a slightly stiff walk looks intentional in clay. Expect gentle comedy, small worlds and talking objects to land best; expect fast action and large crowds to fight the look.

The Claymation card under Visual Style in SceneMixer's project setup — The cards as they appear in step 1, *Set Up Your Project*. Pick one in each row before the script is read; the visual style is fixed once you continue.

The Family 3D Animation card under Visual Style in SceneMixer's project setup — The cards as they appear in step 1, *Set Up Your Project*. Pick one in each row before the script is read; the visual style is fixed once you continue.

How to make an AI claymation short walks through a complete one.

Who this is for

If you are…	What you make here	Start with
Making a children's or family series	Clay episodes with the same figures every time	Cartoon series generator
Making a short film	A clay short with a score, for a festival or a feed	Animated short film
Advertising a small brand	A clay version of your product's world, with an end card	AI ad video generator
Telling a fable	Talking animals and objects in miniature sets	Fairy tale videos

Objects and animals as characters

Clay is the natural home for a talking teapot. Give the object a name in the script and it is read as a character: it gets a sheet, a voice and a place in every shot it appears in, and the lines you write for it are spoken. Non-human characters · Talking animal videos.

Writing for stop motion

One movement per shot. A turn, a hop, a reach. Clay motion is read as deliberate; let each shot do one thing.
Small sets, few people. Two or three figures per shot keep the handmade feel; crowds become a blur of clay.
Light from a lamp. Write the light source into the shot: a single desk lamp from the left. One source is how miniature sets are lit.
Textures in the words. Fingerprints on the cheek, a cardboard sea, a cotton-wool cloud on a wire all come through.

How to write one shot · Describe the cause, not the result.

What it is not

It is a look, not a technique: nothing is photographed a frame at a time, and no clay is involved. It will not turn footage you shot into stop motion, and it will not reproduce a named studio's characters. Members can upload a reference image for a character, which is redrawn in clay rather than copied. Use your own photo.

Other animation pages: 2D animation · 3D animation · Cartoon video generator · All 17 animated looks.

Languages

Native dialogue in 15 languages

Every series below was produced by the same pipeline with the cast speaking that language natively: the interface, the working documents and the spoken lines are all in one language, and nothing is dubbed. Open one to hear it.

See all 15 languages

In SceneMixer vs. stitching tools together

Most AI drama workflows are five or six tools in a row. This is where each step happens here, and what it replaces.

Step	In SceneMixer	Doing it by hand with separate tools
Script and episode plan	Paste a script or a novel, or type one line: it is read into a cast, locations, props and an episode outline you can edit	A chat model writes the script; you split it into episodes and carry the text from tool to tool
Character faces and places	Every character, location and prop is drawn once as a reference sheet and attached to every shot it appears in	An image model, one sheet at a time; you upload the right reference to every clip yourself
Shots	A storyboard per episode with numbered shots and seconds; video is generated segment by segment in 9:16 or 16:9 against the same sheets	A video model, one clip per prompt, describing the same people again each time
Voices and dialogue	Lines are performed in the video itself, one voice per character, in any of 15 languages	A text-to-speech tool for each line, then a lip-sync pass on every clip
Fixing one shot	Edit that shot's text and regenerate the segment alone; the rest of the episode is untouched	Regenerate the clip, then re-cut the timeline
Finishing	Segments are composited into one episode file with its score; members download without the AI badge	A video editor to join the clips, add music and captions, then export
Publishing	You upload the finished episode to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram or anywhere else; nothing is posted for you	Upload by hand, the same as here

Can you make money with AI dramas on TikTok and YouTube?

Yes, within each platform's rules, and the rules are about the account and the video, not about how the video was made. TikTok's Creator Rewards Program (checked November 2, 2026) is open to personal accounts aged 18+ in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, South Korea, France, Mexico and Brazil with at least 10,000 followers and 100,000 video views in the last 30 days; a rewarded video must be original, longer than one minute and reach 1,000 views on the For You feed. YouTube's Partner Program needs 1,000 subscribers plus either 4,000 watch hours in the last 12 months or 10 million Shorts views in the last 90 days.

Both platforms require realistic AI-generated content to be labelled, and YouTube states that disclosing AI use alone does not limit a video's audience or its eligibility to earn. SceneMixer episodes are longer than a minute by design, carry an AI badge by default (members can switch it off and add the platform's own label instead), and are yours to publish. The full answer, with sources.

FAQ

Can AI make stop motion animation?

It can make video in a stop-motion look: SceneMixer's Claymation style renders clay figures and miniature sets from a script, with the handmade tells kept in every shot.

Is anything actually photographed frame by frame?

No. It is a visual look generated from text, not a filming technique.

Can I turn my own footage into stop motion?

Not as a filter. A remake reads a clip into a storyboard and re-shoots it with new clay characters; see the remake page.

Can objects talk?

Yes. Name an object in the script and it becomes a character with a sheet, a voice and lines.

Which stories suit claymation?

Gentle comedy, small worlds, fables, talking objects and animals. Fast action and crowds fight the look.

Do the figures stay the same?

Yes. Each character is drawn once in clay and every shot is generated from that sheet.

What does it cost?

Video is 10 credits a second on the default tier; the first 15 setup images and the first episode's storyboard are free.

Is there music?

Yes, a score is written for the episode; a dialogue-only version is one switch away.

Is SceneMixer like ReelShort or DramaBox?

No. ReelShort and DramaBox are apps for watching short dramas. SceneMixer is for making them: it turns your script or novel into episodes with a consistent cast and spoken dialogue, and you publish the episodes wherever you like, including those platforms' creator programmes where they exist.

Press the clay. Roll the camera.

A claymation short from one sentence.

Start a stop-motion video

Updated November 2, 2026