Create AI story videos for free

Hello and welcome to Hubris Fantasy. In this post, I’ll explain how you can create a free AI story video featuring consistent characters for your YouTube channel. The method I’ll share is the same one I used to create my first short fantasy story. Video below 👇🏽

Tools

  • Microsoft Bing AI or any other AI photo generator you prefer
  • Minimax Hailuo AI – Image to video
  • Remove.bg or any remove photo background tool you prefer
  • Canva or any other photo editor
  • Capcut

NOTE

Microsoft Bing – 15 coins per day and you can change the generated photo ratio without using another coin. 1 photo generation cost 1 coin with 4 photo samples.

Minimax Hailuo – A New account gets 1,100 coins and 100 coins per day after 1,100 coins have been used. 1 image to video generation costs 30 coins and some videos may not come out perfect.

Remove bg – Users may need to sign up or purchase coin before HD quality can be downloaded. It’s not compulsory.

step 1

STORY IDEA

Before video creation, the first priority should be developing a story idea. If you’re struggling to come up with one, you can generate stories using any AI tool of your choice or explore free video tutorials available online. However, I advise against relying solely on AI for your stories, as it may produce narratives that have already been generated by numerous others. It’s more effective to formulate your own story idea and then prompt chatGPT to craft a five or ten-minute story based on that concept.

step 2

CHARACTER DESIGN

Character design is crucial for anyone crafting a narrative. If you are writing your own story, you will have a clear vision of how you want your characters to appear. I utilize Microsoft Bing AI for character creation; in my prompts, I specify the clothing and shoes I envision for them. Including details about shoes is essential if you want Bing to generate full-body images of the character. For optimal results, set the background to white, as you’ll use this single image to create back and side views of the character. At the end of this post, there will be a video demonstrating how to use one photo to maintain consistency in your character across various videos.

step 3

BACKGROUND

I generate backgrounds separately because AI can change some things in the background you want even if you use the same prompt. I also use Microsoft Bing AI for backgrounds because I love the realistic 3D results I get from Bing.

step 4

This is where the real work begins. After generating your characters, head to Minimax Hailuo AI, an image-to-video AI tool, and upload the image of your character. In the prompt, type “make the character turn around.” If the character is male, please specify “male” in the prompt, sometimes Hailuo may mistakenly turn a male character into a female one, and you don’t want to waste coins. If the video generation isn’t perfect, adjust the prompt to “make the character turn to the side.” Once the video has been generated, download it.

step 5

In this step, you’ll turn the generated character video into photos using ezgif.com, by doing this you’ll be able to download photos of the character’s side view and back view. The video tutorial is at the end of this post.

Step 6

After downloading the photos you want from ezgif, crop the part of the character you will use for the video. It can be a medium shot, close-up, full shot, and so on. Crop the front view, side view, and back view.

step 7

After cropping, use remove.bg to remove the white background, so you can put the character in your AI-generated background.

step 8

Place the characters in the backgrounds using Canva or any video editing tool.

Step 9

Back to Minimax Hailuo AI, upload the edited images into Hailuo and generate whatever you want, you can tell the AI to make things or people in the background move.

Step 10

Use CapCut or any video editing tool to compile the generated videos, edit them, add subtitles, and do whatever you want. Then finally, upload your video.


If you follow this step, you may find it difficult to complete a video in a single day, as you’ll be generating a character performing the same actions repeatedly in various backgrounds. Take your time and don’t rush; doing so will enhance your satisfaction with the final result of your video. To avoid using lots of coins by having a character repeat the same actions in different settings, continue reading after the video below.

How to create AI consistent character from a single image

Without using multiple coins and waiting for days before you generate complete scenes for your story; after downloading your character photos from ezgif and cropping them, use Hailuo AI to make the character do things they’ll do in some scenes. Example 👇🏽

If the character above is your character, you will create videos of her talking, laughing, crying, speaking seriously, appearing angry, and so on. Avoid generating expressions that you won’t use to conserve your coins. After creating the videos, remove the background using video background remover tool before placing the characters in different backgrounds. Keep in mind that elements or people in the background will remain static; If you want them to move, generate those separately. I use the steps above because I don’t want a character repeating the same movement till the end of the story.

Not every scene needs to be turned into a video; I tend to skip this for very short scenes. After generating a video of your character speaking against one background; refrain from producing another unless the character begins crying or if you wish to showcase a different body shot.

To receive quicker video results from Hailuo, consider upgrading your plan or wait until 10 PM (WAT) before starting your video generation process; if you’re using a free plan and generate during the afternoon hours, expect delays of one to two hours per video. However, generating at night typically only requires waiting for one minute or just a few seconds.

This is why I favor Hailuo and intend to upgrade my plan, they have truly impressed me. I hope this information proves helpful and enables you to create AI story videos for free.


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