Faceless YouTube channels
Long-form and ultra-long-form uploads, in a look that stays the same episode to episode.
AI documentary video maker
Bring the stories you uncover to the screen.
Turn your research into a narrated, illustrated documentary. Generate imagery for each scene, shape the pacing and refine the result in one project.
- Your voiceover or an AI voice
- Up to 3 hours in one project
- Regenerate any single scene
Scene PlanContinuityVisualsTimeline & Export
A picture for every line of the story
Archive footage for a story you've researched often doesn't exist, and stock footage rarely fits what's being said. Animatic suggests a picture for each part of the narration, and you can change every one.
- Scenes change when the story moves on, not every few seconds
- Choose how often the picture changes, and slow it down where a moment needs time
- Each scene has a description you can rewrite before you remake it
- Set the camera movement and transition for each scene, or turn a key scene into video
- Earlier versions of a scene are kept, so you can always go back
05:14 – 05:25Scene description
Far away and small: the lit train crossing the salt flat under the arc of the Milky Way.
From a distance, the train was only a line of light between two skies.
Image3 versions keptRegenerateEdit description
Timing05:14 – 05:25Adjust
MotionSlow zoom inCross dissolve
How a 45-minute film comes together
What Animatic does, and what stays with you.
Research and script
Sources, structure and fact-checking. Animatic doesn't research or verify claims.
YouRecord or generate the narration
Upload a 45-minute read, or generate it from the script with an AI voice.
YouImport and plan
The narration is timed and cut into scenes. This runs in the background.
AnimaticCheck the plan before anything is made
Rewrite the scenes that describe the wrong thing, merge two that should be one, set the pace of the middle section.
YouGenerate the sequence
A picture for every scene in your Visual Style. Anything that fails is retried for you.
AnimaticReview and regenerate
Go through the film, remake the shots that aren't right, turn key scenes into video and adjust the timing.
YouBrand and export
Add your intro, outro and logo from a Brand Kit, then export one 1080p video.
Animatic
Generated imagery isn’t archival evidence
Some built-in Visual Styles look like film stock, press photography or period illustration. They make new pictures in that look; they are not records of what happened.
Archival Film StillStylized photorealism with the look of rediscovered archive footage: faded film stock, soft grain, period color and gentle wear, for history and stories told from the past. 
Cinematic Documentary PhotographPhotorealistic documentary stills with natural light, honest color, believable people and locations, and the composure of a feature film, for stories that need to feel real. 
Noir Graphic NovelHigh-contrast ink illustration with deep shadows, dramatic angles, sparse hatching and a single cold accent color, for true crime, investigations and tense historical storytelling. 
Cinematic Concept ArtStylized photorealism in the manner of film concept art and matte painting: epic scale, dramatic atmospheric light and painterly realism, for history, science and stories that need grandeur.
- Use generated scenes for what illustration does well: reconstructions, places no camera reached, ideas and atmosphere.
- Where a claim rests on what a real person, place or document looked like, upload your own image for that scene: a photograph or archive still you have the rights to use.
- Tell viewers which pictures are illustrations, and meet your platform's rules on AI disclosure.
Long enough for the whole film
Feature-length documentary work doesn't fit tools built around clips a few seconds long. Animatic runs a 3-hour project on Ultra, 2 hours on Pro and 1 hour on Creator, as one project with one scene plan, one look and one export.
- One Visual Style for the whole film, or for a whole series of films
- Continuity helps a figure introduced in the first act look the same in the third
- A Brand Kit carries your logo, intro and outro into the export
If the films go out as a channel, the faceless YouTube page covers videos that run for hours and keeping a series consistent.
Animatic doesn't research your subject, verify claims or clear rights in third-party material. Accuracy, sourcing and permissions stay with you as the filmmaker.
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Creator suits films up to an hour. Pro covers feature-length films and more than one series at a time, and Ultra goes up to 3 hours.
Choose how you'd like to be billed.
Creator
For publishing videos regularly.
$20per month
Billed annually at $240 — save $48 a year.
$24per month
Billed monthly. Cancel any time.
Everything in Free, plus
- 1,200 credits a month
- Projects up to 1 hour
- 1080p exports with no watermark, and commercial use
- Your own Visual Styles and music
Recommended
Pro
For longer productions and more than one series.
$49.99per month
Billed annually at $590 — save $118 a year.
$59per month
Billed monthly. Cancel any time.
Everything in Creator, plus
- 3,000 credits a month
- Projects up to 2 hours
- 5 Spaces and 5 Brand Kits, one per series
- Faster generation: up to 6 scenes at once
Best value
Ultra
For the longest projects and the heaviest output.
$82.99per month
Billed annually at $990 — save $198 a year.
$99per month
Billed monthly. Cancel any time.
Everything in Pro, plus
- 6,500 credits a month
- Projects up to 3 hours
- 10 Spaces and 10 Brand Kits
- 100 GB of storage
Free$0
Explore Animatic with your own idea. No card required.
100 credits is enough to try Animatic. A full 10-minute video usually needs more.
- 100 credits to spend once, not a monthly allowance
- Projects up to 10 minutes
- 720p exports with a watermark
- Animate scene, to turn chosen scenes into video
Credits pay for what Animatic makes for you, and you see the cost before each step. Paid plans get their credits every month, however you pay, and unused credits don't roll over. The longest project is a limit on each project, not an amount of video.
Documentary questions
Does Animatic research or fact-check the documentary?
No. It works from the idea, script or narration you give it. Start with an Idea can draft a script from your idea and the facts you supply, but it doesn't search the web or verify claims. Check the draft before you approve it.
Do I need a finished voiceover before I start?
No. Upload a recorded voiceover if you have one, and the scene timings come from your read. Or paste the script and generate the narration with an AI voice, or start from an idea and edit the script Animatic drafts.
What does the finished film look like?
An illustrated film: your narration over an AI-generated picture for each scene, in your Visual Style, moving with the camera, plus any scenes you've turned into video with Animate scene. The pictures are illustrations, not archive: they show what the narration describes, not a record of what happened.
How long can a documentary be?
Up to 3 hours on Ultra, 2 hours on Pro, 1 hour on Creator and 10 minutes on Free — as a single project rather than parts you assemble later.
Can I use my own photographs or archive material?
Yes, as stills: upload your own image for any scene in place of the generated one, and bring your logo, intro and outro through a Brand Kit. Animatic doesn't source or license archive material, and clearing rights in anything you supply is your responsibility.
What if a scene shows the wrong thing?
Rewrite what that scene depicts and regenerate it on its own. The rest of the film stays exactly as it is, and earlier versions of the scene are kept.
Can I keep several films looking like one series?
Yes. A Visual Style keeps the look, and a Space groups the projects that share it.
Can I publish and monetize the finished film?
Commercial use is included on every paid plan, and exports are 1080p without a watermark. Meeting a platform's rules on originality, rights, accuracy and AI disclosure is your responsibility as the publisher.
Try it on one section of your film
Start free with 100 credits: enough to see the scene plan and the first images for a short section before you pay for a longer film.