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Guides, comparisons and notes from making animated films with Nima, newest first. Looking for the step-by-step guides in order? They are all in Tutorials.
Books and novels ·
How to make a 30 or 60 minute movie with AI
A 30 minute AI movie starts from about 4,500 words of text, an hour from about 9,000. How to keep the cast the same for the whole runtime, with two hour-long films we made as the proof.
Making films ·
Best AI for consistent characters in video: 14 tools compared (2026)
The best AI for consistent characters in video, compared: which tools hold a cast across a whole film, which across one clip, how many reference pictures each takes, and the price.
Books and novels ·
Book trailer maker: your characters, animated and speaking
Paste a scene from your book and get an animated trailer where your characters speak its lines. Your first trailer is free, then plans by the minute from as low as $10 a minute.
Books and novels ·
How to make a book trailer
How to make a book trailer in six steps: pick one scene, cut it to about 150 words, choose a look, cast and voice it, add the title and post it where readers are.
Books and novels ·
Book trailer examples: from a 90-second film to a full chapter
Five animated book trailer examples you can watch: Frankenstein, The Three Musketeers, Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice and Little Women, and why each one works.
Books and novels ·
How much does a book trailer cost?
What a book trailer costs in 2026: free with a template, $250 to $25,000 hired, or animated from your own pages on a plan by the minute, from as low as $10 a minute.
Books and novels ·
Book teaser: what it is and how to make one for free
A book teaser is a 15 to 30 second video of one moment from your book. How it differs from a trailer, what to put in it, and how to make an animated one for free in Long-form Video.
Books and novels ·
Animate my book: how to turn your book into an animated film
How to animate your book: paste a chapter, pick a look, approve the cast and voices, and get an animated film that follows your text word for word. Free trailer first.
Books and novels ·
How to make an animated audiobook
An animated audiobook is your full text read aloud over animation of its scenes. How to make one from a chapter or short story, and how long it runs.
Books and novels ·
The best book trailer makers in 2026, compared
Book trailer makers compared: tools that animate your own characters, AI generators that work from a blurb, and template editors, with prices.
Books and novels ·
Fiverr book trailers: what $200 buys, and the alternative
A book trailer on Fiverr or Upwork runs $30 to $200 for stock footage or an AI-made clip. What that buys, and how to animate your own pages instead.
Books and novels ·
Animated audiobooks: classic novels you can watch for free
An animated audiobook is a book read aloud in full while its scenes play out on screen. Why it is easier to follow than audio alone, and free ones to watch on YouTube.
Books and novels ·
Book to screen: adapt your own novel as an animated series
How a novel reaches the screen, how rarely an optioned book gets made, and how to adapt your own book as an animated series that follows your text word for word.
Making films ·
What is an AI storyboard?
An AI storyboard is the plan for a video, shot by shot, made with generated images. What an AI storyboard generator gives you, where most of them stop, and how a storyboard can become the film.
Making films ·
What is an AI 2D animation generator?
Most AI video generators are trained toward photoreal footage and flatten a drawn look. What a 2D-native AI animation generator does differently, for cartoon, anime, claymation and pixel art styles.
Making films ·
How to make AI videos longer than 10 seconds
AI video generators cap a clip at five to fifteen seconds. How to get past the ten second wall without stitching clips by hand: several shots in one scene, cut where the picture changes.
Photos ·
Turn a photo into an animated video with AI
Upload one photo and get a short animated video: the people or pets in it redrawn as characters, moving and speaking with voices. Pets, couples, kids, friends. Runs in the browser; a free film every 14 days, with the Nima mark.
Photos ·
Make a talking pet video from a photo
Upload one photo of your dog or cat and get a short animated video where your pet talks, in claymation, felt, pencil or comic book style. Runs in the browser; a free film every 14 days, with the Nima mark.
Photos ·
Turn a photo into a cartoon that moves and talks
Upload a photo and Nima redraws the people or pets in it as cartoon characters, in claymation, felt, paper, comic book ink, anime or pencil, then animates them with voices. A free film every 14 days, with the Nima mark.
Photos ·
Turn a wedding photo into an animated video
Upload one wedding photo and Nima redraws the couple in claymation, felt, paper or pencil and animates them in a short scene with voices. A keepsake or an anniversary gift from a photo you already have.
Art ·
Computer art: an instrument after Samia Halaby
Samia Halaby taught herself to code on an Amiga in 1986 and performed her abstract paintings live on a keyboard. This is a playable tribute: press a key and paint one.
Making films ·
How to write AI video prompts
We ran 24 generations changing only the wording. Naming the camera operation and its size worked 4 times out of 4. Describing the picture you wanted worked 0 times out of 4. What that means for how you write a prompt.
Making films ·
How to add keyframes and cuts to an AI video
A worked example: one three shot scene, nine authored stills, two hard cuts, 474 rendered frames, no retries. Where each keyframe goes, and where to cut instead of keying.
Making films ·
What is a keyframe in animation?
A keyframe is a still image that pins down one moment of a shot. Set two of them and the model animates the gap. This is the control that separates directing from gambling.
Making films ·
How to make claymation with AI
Claymation used to cost a sculptor, a lighting rig and a month of patience per minute. The look survives digitisation almost perfectly. What that pipeline looks like now.
Making films ·
How to make long AI videos
AI video tools cap a generation at a few seconds, and no setting raises it. Long videos are made the way films always were: scenes, shots, and joins that do not show.
Making films ·
How to edit AI videos
You cannot move a character in Premiere, because footage is just pixels. Generated video keeps its inputs, and editing those is the real workflow. What that looks like.
Making films ·
How to make an animated video with AI
Making an animated video with AI takes an afternoon: write the beats, lock characters and style, keyframe the shots, render and cut. The four habits that make it look professional.
Making films ·
How to get consistent characters in AI video
Consistent characters in AI video come from reference conditioning: every shot generated against fixed images of the character, not a text description. Why drift happens, how to stop it.
Making films ·
How to do lip sync animation with AI
Typed lines become performed voices and animated mouths. How AI dialogue works, why 2D lip flaps beat full lip-sync re-renders, and what a talking scene costs to change.
Books and novels ·
How to turn a book into an animated movie with AI
A book is a finished screenplay wearing prose. Adapting one with AI: rights, casting from the text, scenes as episodes, and a Pride and Prejudice built this way.
Making films ·
How to change the art style of an AI video
Style lives at the keyframes, so restyling a video means regenerating its stills in the new material and re-rendering, and identity has to survive. Watch clay become pixels.
Making films ·
How to make and change animation backgrounds with AI
Animation backgrounds with AI: generate a location from a description, swap it under a finished scene, or edit it in place, all without touching the characters in front of it.
Making films ·
How to dub animation with AI
AI dubbing works better on animation than on anything else: re-perform the lines per language, retime the mouth flaps, keep every frame. One film, native everywhere.
Making films ·
How to make a cartoon with AI
An AI cartoon generator gets you frames; a cartoon needs timing, gags and a committed flat style. How to make a cartoon that is funny on purpose, not just animated.
Making films ·
How to turn text into an animated video
Text to animation is real, but it is not one magic prompt: your words do four different jobs, beats, characters, changes and dialogue, and each job has its own rules.
Making films ·
How to turn a script into a video with AI
A screenplay is already structured for production: scenes, action lines, dialogue. Script to video with AI is mostly translation, and here is what maps, what does not, and how.
Making films ·
What is the best AI animation tool?
There is no single best AI animation tool, there is a best one per job. What each category is good at, and which one to pick for character-driven animated stories.
Making films ·
How to make an animated video with AI: a step-by-step guide for beginners
A complete walkthrough from signing up to a finished film: create characters, storyboard by typing, edit keyframes, add dialogue, render and share. No animation experience needed.
Making films ·
How much does AI animation cost?
Studios quote thousands per finished minute, AI tools shout free, and nobody writes the honest middle. Real numbers for every tier, including the cost that is not money.
Making films ·
Is free AI animation really free?
Free tiers are real, but the limits are rarely on the pricing page: watermarks, credits, resolution caps and commercial-use restrictions. How to read one before you invest a weekend.
Making films ·
Can you publish and monetise AI-generated animation?
Yes, on every major platform, with disclosure where the content is realistic enough to mislead. What YouTube, Instagram and TikTok actually require, and where the real risk sits.