# How do you make anime videos with AI?

Canonical page: https://www.veedio.co/how-to/make-ai-anime-videos
Updated: 2026-10-30

Design original characters with a short, fixed description, write a scene around one emotional beat, and prompt each shot using anime's own language: wide skies, wind in hair, close-ups on eyes, speed lines, light through windows. Render in an anime style with one consistent description per character, narrate with an expressive voice, add captions, and avoid naming existing series or studios in prompts.

Key facts:
- Veedio's anime style id is anime and it can be combined with any of the 20 narrator voices.
- Veedio narrates in Japanese (ja) among its 29 languages, as well as English, Korean, Chinese (Mandarin) and others.
- A five-scene anime short costs 13 credits with stills and 68 with AI motion on every scene.
- Clearly animated content does not need YouTube's altered or synthetic content label.

## Character sheets: write these before any scene

- **Sora Aikawa** — A quiet seventeen-year-old who runs her school's one-member rooftop astronomy club. Hides nerves behind a calm face. Visual prompt: Sora: a teenage girl with short silver-blue hair and a single hair clip shaped like a star, large grey eyes, navy school blazer with a yellow ribbon, a small brass telescope on her shoulder, anime style.
- **Ren Kudo** — A loud, kind classmate from the track team who keeps 'accidentally' ending up on the roof. Visual prompt: Ren: a teenage boy with messy dark red hair, bright amber eyes, a navy school blazer worn open over a white track shirt, a sports bag over one shoulder, anime style.

## Anime shot types, as prompts

Anime has a recognisable visual grammar. Naming the shot type gets you much closer to the look than just writing 'anime'.

- **Sky establishing shot:** Wide low-angle shot of a school rooftop against a huge evening sky with tall glowing clouds, power lines crossing the frame, anime style.
- **Wind and hair:** Medium shot of a character standing at a rooftop fence, hair and ribbon blowing in a strong breeze, cherry petals drifting past, anime style.
- **Eye close-up:** Extreme close-up of a character's grey eyes reflecting a sky full of stars, a single tear catching the light, anime style.
- **Light through windows:** An empty classroom in late afternoon, long beams of orange light across the desks, dust in the air, anime style.
- **Speed lines:** A character sprinting up a stairwell toward the camera, dramatic speed lines behind them, determined face, anime style.
- **Over the shoulder:** Over-the-shoulder shot from behind one character looking at another across a rooftop at dusk, city lights starting to glow below, anime style.
- **Quiet object shot:** Close-up of a small brass telescope resting on a rooftop ledge next to a can of juice, the city blurred behind, anime style.

## How to make an anime short with AI

1. **Choose one emotional beat** — Anime shorts that land are usually about one feeling: a goodbye, a rivalry, a confession, a first win. 'The last night of the astronomy club' is a beat. A whole tournament arc is a series.
2. **Write the character sheets** — Give each character three fixed visual anchors: hair colour and cut, eye colour, and one accessory (Sora's star hair clip). Put them in a single sentence and reuse it word for word in every shot.
3. **Storyboard with shot types** — Plan five to eight shots and name each one: sky establishing shot, wind and hair, eye close-up, object shot. Alternate wide and close shots so the video breathes.
4. **Write narration as inner monologue** — Anime often lets a character's thoughts carry the scene. Write in first person from your lead, short lines, with one line of spoken dialogue at the turning point.
5. **Render in Veedio's anime style** — Open the AI Anime Video Generator, paste the script with your shot notes, choose style anime, 9:16 for Shorts or 16:9 for YouTube, a voice that fits the narrator (Lily for cinematic and velvety, Jessica for bright, Josh for a casual young male), Subtle or Highlight captions, and Cinematic or Lo-fi music.
6. **Put motion on the wind** — In anime, movement often comes from the environment: hair, petals, clouds, a train passing. If you add AI motion to one or two scenes, choose those.
7. **Upload with an original title and the right settings** — Title it with your own series name, not someone else's franchise. In YouTube Studio, choose 'No, it's not made for kids' unless the anime is specifically for children; anime aimed at teens is not made for kids. Clearly animated video doesn't need the synthetic-content label.

## Worked example: 'The Last Night of the Rooftop Club' (45 seconds)

Runtime: about 45 seconds.

**Scene 1**
- Voiceover: The rooftop astronomy club has one member. Tonight is its last meeting.
- Visual: Wide low-angle shot of a school rooftop against a huge evening sky, a lone girl with short silver-blue hair and a star hair clip setting up a small brass telescope, anime style.
- On screen: The Last Night of the Rooftop Club

**Scene 2**
- Voiceover: I'm moving next week. I thought I'd look at the stars one more time, alone.
- Visual: Sora: a teenage girl with short silver-blue hair, a star-shaped hair clip, large grey eyes and a navy blazer with a yellow ribbon, standing at the rooftop fence as wind lifts her hair, anime style.

**Scene 3**
- Voiceover: Then the door crashed open. 'Is this the astronomy club? I'd like to join.'
- Visual: Ren: a teenage boy with messy dark red hair, amber eyes and an open navy blazer over a white track shirt, bursting through the rooftop door out of breath, speed lines behind him, anime style.

**Scene 4**
- Voiceover: 'It's closing,' I said. He sat down next to the telescope anyway. 'Then teach me fast.'
- Visual: Over-the-shoulder shot from behind Sora looking at Ren, who is sitting cross-legged next to the brass telescope grinning, city lights below, anime style.

**Scene 5**
- Voiceover: So I showed him everything. The bright one is Vega. The faint smudge is a whole galaxy.
- Visual: Extreme close-up of Ren's amber eyes at the telescope eyepiece, a sky full of stars reflected in them, anime style.

**Scene 6**
- Voiceover: At midnight he said, 'Same time next year? I'll keep the club open.' And for the first time, it didn't feel like an ending.
- Visual: Both characters lying on the rooftop looking up at a sky full of stars, the telescope between them, a shooting star crossing the frame, anime style.
- On screen: Same time next year.

## AI anime mistakes

- Naming an existing series, character or studio in the prompt. It's a copyright and policy risk, and your channel should be known for its own world anyway.
- Only writing 'anime girl'. Without fixed hair, eyes and an accessory, every scene gives you a different girl.
- All close-ups. Anime gets its scale from wide sky and city shots between the emotional close-ups.
- Long spoken dialogue between characters. One narrator voice works best for inner monologue with a single quoted line at the turn.
- Switching between anime and 3d or cinematic mid-video. Keep one style per episode.
- Ending every short on a cliffhanger. A short that resolves its one feeling is more satisfying than one that only teases.

## FAQ

### Can I make an anime in a specific studio's style?

Don't name studios or series in your prompts. Describe the qualities you like instead: soft painted skies, thick clean outlines, pastel palette, dramatic lighting. Original characters and a look described in your own words are safer and more distinctive.

### Can I make AI anime videos in Japanese?

Yes. Veedio narrates in Japanese (ja), and in Korean and Chinese (Mandarin) too. Write the script in Japanese so captions render in Japanese script, and pick a voice whose tone fits your narrator.

### How many characters can an AI anime short have?

Two is comfortable, three is manageable, more than that tends to drift between scenes. Give each one a distinct hair colour and accessory so the model, and the viewer, can tell them apart at a glance, and only put the characters a shot needs into its prompt.

### How do I make anime fight scenes with AI?

Use speed lines, low angles, impact frames and before-and-after shots rather than trying to show every blow. Put AI motion on one or two key moments. Narrate the fight as the character's thoughts so it reads clearly even with still images.

### Do AI anime videos need an AI label?

On YouTube, clearly animated content is listed as not needing the altered or synthetic content disclosure. On TikTok, labelling is required for realistic AI content; anime isn't realistic, but turning on the AI-generated label is harmless and simple.

### Can AI anime channels be monetized?

YouTube's monetization policies focus on original, non-repetitive content. A channel with its own characters, stories and series is in a strong position; a channel uploading near-identical template videos is what the inauthentic content policy targets.

## Sources

- [YouTube Help: Disclosing use of altered or synthetic content](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14328491) (checked 2026-10-30)
- [YouTube Help: YouTube channel monetization policies](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1311392) (checked 2026-10-30)

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