How to make an AI anime series for a YouTube channel
Brief for AI Create: An original anime series: a delivery girl in a floating city discovers her bicycle can ride on wind currents only she can see; a sky-pirate crew wants the bicycle and a city guard wants her; 12 episodes of about two minutes, each ending on a chase.
Pick the drawn look once
| Look | Visual Style | Suits |
|---|---|---|
| Classic anime | Anime | Action, comedy, school stories |
| Rich, painted backgrounds | Painterly Anime | Cinematic fantasy, sci-fi, romance |
| Soft and gentle | Watercolor Anime | Slice of life, healing stories |
| Webtoon look | Korean Webcomic | Romance, office, revenge |
| Chinese comic look | Painted Manhua | Cultivation, palace, martial arts |
The visual style is fixed once you continue past Step 1, and every tier keeps it. Scene and costume styles change to drawn pictures to match. Visual style presets · Anime looks across tiers.
Characters that stay on model
- A face that is not generic. Hair shape and colour, eye colour, one mark (a bandage on the cheek, a hairpin). Describe a face.
- Outfit changes are states. School uniform and battle outfit. States.
- Your own designs can be uploaded as sheets on a membership plan. Upload your own image.
- Voices from the preset library stay the same across episodes. Voices.
A channel rhythm that works
- Season plan: 8–12 episodes, each ending on a hook. Hooks.
- Landscape for the channel: 16:9 Landscape for full episodes; the Short is a 9:16 project or a crop of the best moment. Vertical or landscape.
- Join each episode into one video and download it. Composite an episode.
- Post on a fixed day. Posting to YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Reels · Can you monetise AI videos on YouTube and TikTok?.
Keep it original
Characters, names and iconic outfits from existing anime are refused by the IP check, and studio names are not used in the presets for the same reason. Your channel is safest, and easiest to grow, with a world of your own. IP check · Faceless YouTube channels.
Make it in SceneMixer, start to finish
- Script: paste your own on Upload Script, or write the brief above in AI Create and let it draft the episodes.
- Step 1: Type TV Series; Scene Style to match the world; Costume Style to match the world; Visual Style Anime, Painterly Anime; Target Region; dialogue language; 16:9 Landscape. Then read the script.
- Step 2: the cast drawn once, each with a distinctive face, a mark and outfit states; the recurring places as locations. The first 15 setup images on an account are free.
- Storyboard: generate episode 1 first (free on your first drama) and read it before you render anything. One place per segment.
- Video: render on the default tier at 10 credits a second, fix single shots instead of whole episodes, then put the episode together and post.
| Episode | What happens | The ending beat |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A delivery goes wrong over the canal. | Her bicycle lifts off the ground. |
| 2 | She learns to ride the currents. | A sky-pirate flag on the horizon. |
| 3 | A chase through the market towers. | The guard captain sees her face. |
| 4 | The pirates' ship. | Their captain has the same bicycle. |
| 5 | The city council. | A reward on her head. |
FAQ
How do I make an AI anime series for YouTube?
Pick an anime visual style in Step 1, draw the cast once in Step 2, storyboard and render each episode, join it into one video and post on a fixed schedule.
Will my characters look the same in every episode?
Yes. Each character's sheet is used in every shot; give each one a distinctive face and mark.
Which anime styles are there?
Anime, Painterly Anime, Watercolor Anime, Korean Webcomic and Painted Manhua, plus other drawn styles such as American Comic and Ink Wash Animation.
Can I use my own character designs?
Yes, on a membership plan: upload them as the character's sheet.
Can I make fan anime of an existing series?
No. Known characters and names are refused by the IP check.
Can I monetise it?
Platform rules decide; an original continuing series is the strongest case. See our answer on monetising AI videos.
Vertical or landscape?
16:9 Landscape for full episodes, 9:16 Portrait for Shorts.
How long should episodes be?
One to three minutes works well for a new channel; each ends on a hook.
Updated October 31, 2026