How do you make an AI cartoon video?

• Pickle

  A small, round, very huggable-looking cactus who desperately wants hugs. Optimistic, a little clumsy, never mean.

  Visual prompt: Pickle: a small round green cactus character with big shiny black eyes, a tiny pink flower on top like a hat, short stubby arms, soft rounded spines, 3D cartoon render, warm studio light.

• Bao

  Pickle's best friend, a nervous red balloon who loves Pickle but is, understandably, scared of spines.

  Visual prompt: Bao: a shiny round red balloon character with a curly white string, wide worried eyes and a tiny smile, floating at Pickle's eye level, 3D cartoon render, warm studio light.

1. 1

   Write the premise as one sentence

   A cartoon short needs a want and an obstacle. 'A cactus wants a hug, but his best friend is a balloon' is a whole episode. If your premise needs a paragraph, it is a series, not an episode.

2. 2

   Lock the character prompts

   Write a one-line visual description per character covering shape, colour, eyes, one signature detail and the style. Save it somewhere you can paste from. Every scene that shows that character gets the same line, word for word.

3. 3

   Script in beats, not paragraphs

   Plan five to eight beats: setup, first attempt, it goes wrong, a bigger attempt, the fix, a final gag. Write one or two narrator lines per beat. Short sentences read better as captions and give the visuals room.

4. 4

   Generate in Veedio

   Open the AI Cartoon Video Generator, paste your script, set the style (3d for this example), the aspect ratio (9:16 for Shorts and TikTok, 16:9 for a regular YouTube upload) and a bright voice such as Jessica or Laura. Choose Bounce or Pop captions and the Uplifting music bed.

5. 5

   Fix drift scene by scene

   If a character changes colour or loses their signature detail in one scene, regenerate only that scene with the locked description moved to the start of the prompt. Don't regenerate the whole video for one bad frame.

6. 6

   Spend motion on the gag

   Most scenes work as stills with a slow pan. Put AI motion on the one beat where movement is the joke, like the balloon drifting backwards in alarm. One motion scene in an eight-scene video costs far less than eight.

7. 7

   Set the audience honestly when you upload

   In YouTube Studio, choose 'Yes, it's made for kids' only if children are the main audience; that turns off comments and personalised ads for the video. A cartoon aimed at teens or adults is 'No'. Clearly animated cartoons don't need the altered or synthetic content label.

8. 8

   Make it a series

   Reuse the same cast and style for the next episode with a new want and obstacle. Recurring characters give viewers a reason to come back, and they make each new episode faster to make because the prompts already exist.

Each prompt names the character, the action, the setting and the style. Swap in your own cast.

• Snowman in summer

  A small round snowman with a carrot nose and a red scarf fanning himself with a leaf on a sunny beach, sweat drops flying, comic style, bold outlines, simple sand background.

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• Shy robot at school

  A small boxy silver robot with one round blue eye hiding behind a backpack on the first day of school, other cartoon kids waving, 3D cartoon render, bright morning light.

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• Grumpy cloud

  A fluffy grey cloud with folded arms and a frown raining only on itself while the sky around it is sunny, watercolor style, soft blue background.

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• Sock detective

  A striped yellow sock wearing a tiny detective hat, holding a magnifying glass under a bed searching for its missing partner, claymation style, warm lamp light.

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• Dragon who can't roar

  A small teal dragon with tiny wings trying to roar but only a bubble comes out, a confused butterfly watching, 3D cartoon render, sunny meadow.

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