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Task guide - AI video and animation

AI short drama: five steps from script to final cut

A short drama is not one prompt: you write an episode with characters and a turn, break it into shots, generate visuals, voice the lines, then cut it together. Order matters - generate before the shot list is fixed and the pieces will not assemble; voice before the lines are final and the whole track is redone.

15tools
12with a Chinese UI
10with an ICP filing
8with a free tier
01 / Process

A workflow you can follow

Split into stages, each with the job and the deliverable.

STEP 01

Script

Write one episode under three minutes first: who, what they want, what blocks them, where it turns. Then write the lines one by one.

Deliverable: One 3-minute episode script with every line
STEP 02

Storyboard

Break the script into 8-15 shots: shot size, what happens, the line and the duration on each row. Text only, no images yet - a general assistant filling a fixed table is the quickest way.

Deliverable: An 8-15 row shot list
STEP 03

Generate shots

Generate shot by shot from the list. Budget for three takes per shot - the first one rarely lands.

Deliverable: One usable clip per shot
STEP 04

Voice and captions

Turn the lines into an audio track, then generate captions. Keep each line under about 15 characters so the read does not rush.

Deliverable: One voice track and one caption file
STEP 05

Cut and finish

Assemble in shot order, sync voice and captions, unify aspect ratio, frame rate and loudness, then export.

Deliverable: A file you can upload as is
02 / Tools

Pick tools by stage

Decide the job first, then look at the tools listed for it.

15 tools on this page

JuYun

Script and prompts

Used at the Script stage: Free AI intelligent Chinese script creation platform

Evidence: site HTTP 200 · 1 source (ai-bot.cn) · last checked 2026-10-16 · UI Chinese · price tier free tier · ICP filing 京ICP备2025153199号

jucloud.comsite ↗

Laper

Script and prompts

Used at the Script stage: AI-native scriptwriting tool

Evidence: site HTTP 200 · 1 source (ai-bot.cn) · last checked 2026-10-16 · UI English · price tier free tier · ICP filing: not recorded

laper.aisite ↗

ChaoJiXiaoShuoJia

Script and prompts

Used at the Script stage: AI creation assistant specially designed for web novel writers and short drama scriptwriters

Evidence: site HTTP 200 · 1 source (ai-bot.cn) · last checked 2026-10-16 · UI Chinese · price tier n/a · ICP filing 鄂ICP备2025137199号

36ma.comsite ↗

Luca Mianka

Script and prompts

Used at the Storyboard stage: Free AI chat assistant from Luca's billion-parameter multimodal model

Evidence: site HTTP 404 · 1 source (ai-bot.cn) · last checked 2026-10-16 · UI undetermined · price tier n/a · ICP filing: not recorded

luca-beta.modelbest.cnsite ↗

DeepSeek

Script and prompts

Used at the Storyboard stage: DeepSeek's AI assistant and open-source large model from Fantom Quantization

Evidence: site HTTP 200 · 1 source (ai-bot.cn) · last checked 2026-10-16 · UI Chinese · price tier free tier · ICP filing 浙ICP备2023025841号

deepseek.comsite ↗

Pixmax

Visuals and generation

Used at the Generate shots stage: AI engine for creating realistic short dramas and manhuas

Evidence: site HTTP 200 · 1 source (ai-bot.cn) · last checked 2026-10-16 · UI Chinese · price tier free tier · ICP filing 粤ICP备2023088052号-10

pixmax.cnsite ↗

TagoMovie

Visuals and generation

Used at the Generate shots stage: One-stop AI comic and short drama creation platform

Evidence: site HTTP 200 · 1 source (ai-bot.cn) · last checked 2026-10-16 · UI Chinese · price tier free tier · ICP filing 粤ICP备2025400347号

tagomovie.bitaihub.comsite ↗

Zaoju

Visuals and generation

Used at the Generate shots stage: One-stop AI short drama, AI comic drama and AI video production platform

Evidence: site HTTP 200 · 1 source (ai-bot.cn) · last checked 2026-10-16 · UI Chinese · price tier n/a · ICP filing: not recorded

zaoju.artsite ↗

LingHui AI

Visuals and generation

Used at the Generate shots stage: Professional AI short drama and comic drama video creation platform

Evidence: site HTTP 200 · 1 source (ai-bot.cn) · last checked 2026-10-16 · UI Chinese · price tier paid · ICP filing 沪ICP备2025121130号-2

linghuiai.netsite ↗

XunFeiZhiZuo

Voice and captions

Used at the Voice and captions stage: an AI platform providing dubbing, speech synthesis, face modeling, lip prediction

Evidence: site HTTP 200 · 2 sources (ai-bot.cn,aigc.cn) · last checked 2026-10-16 · UI Chinese · price tier free tier · ICP filing 皖ICP备2023018870号-7

xfzhizuo.cnsite ↗

Biaobei Yuedu AI Dubbing

Voice and captions

Used at the Voice and captions stage: An online text-to-speech software with fast, realistic voice synthesis and rich voice actor roles

Evidence: site HTTP 200 · 1 source (aigc.cn) · last checked 2026-10-16 · UI Chinese · price tier n/a · ICP filing 鲁ICP备2023038621号

yuedu.data-baker.comsite ↗

LangLang Dubbing

Voice and captions

Used at the Voice and captions stage: an excellent intelligent text-to-speech tool providing voice synthesis services

Evidence: site HTTP 200 · 2 sources (ai-bot.cn,aigc.cn) · last checked 2026-10-16 · UI Chinese · price tier n/a · ICP filing: not recorded

lang123.topsite ↗

Kuaijianji

Edit and finish

Used at the Cut and finish stage: AI video editing tool from 360, featuring AI editing, AI digital human, smart subtitle addition

Evidence: site HTTP 200 · 1 source (ai-bot.cn) · last checked 2026-10-16 · UI Chinese · price tier n/a · ICP filing 京ICP备2020049243号-6

kuaijianji.comsite ↗

Descript

Edit and finish

Used at the Cut and finish stage: AI video editing tool that allows clipping audio/video by editing text

Evidence: site HTTP 200 · 1 source (ai-bot.cn) · last checked 2026-10-16 · UI English · price tier free tier · ICP filing: not recorded

descript.comsite ↗

GhostCut

Edit and finish

Used at the Cut and finish stage: Multi-functional AI video secondary creation and translation tool

Evidence: site HTTP 200 · 1 source (ai-bot.cn) · last checked 2026-10-16 · UI Chinese · price tier free tier · ICP filing 沪ICP备19019916号-6

cn.jollytoday.comsite ↗

How this list is built: every tool comes from our own AI tools database, matched to a stage by category and keyword - not a paid placement and not a ranking. The evidence line under each card prints database fields only (site HTTP status, source count, last check date, UI check, price tier, ICP filing). "Site HTTP 200" means we opened it that day; it does not mean we tested it. Pricing, quotas and regional availability belong to the vendor page.

03 / Resources

The projects and docs behind the stage

These are not products; they are GitHub projects and agent skills.

MCP servers and agent skills are not products in the AI tools database - they live as GitHub projects and skill bundles. The entries below come from our items database: the star count is public, the date is when we last saw it, and each link goes to the project page.

How we check these: the source link resolves, when we last saw it, whether a README exists and the public star count - all four checkable on the page. We have no version, licence or compatibility fields, so we do not print them.
04 / FAQ

Before you begin

How were the 15 tools on this page picked?
Each of the 5 stages queries our own AI tools database by category and keyword, and one tool belongs to one stage only. This is not a paid placement and we do not sell positions. Every value in the evidence line is a database field.
Can the stages be reordered?
Script, storyboard, generation, voice and edit are a real dependency chain: without a shot list the clips do not assemble, and if the lines change the voice track and captions are redone. Test the chain on a 15-30 second cut before an episode.
What does n/a in the price field mean?
We found no clear pricing evidence. It does not mean paid, and it does not mean free - the vendor page is the source of truth.
Do these tools work in China?
The database has no "available in this region" field, so we do not judge it and we do not print a "works in China" badge. What we record is the interface language check and the ICP filing number; everything else belongs to the site.
Why is there no score on the cards?
Because the database has no score field. We only print what you can check on the vendor site yourself; a score with no data behind it is worse than none.

What we actually check

Every label here - Chinese UI, ICP filing, free tier - comes from a field we recorded per tool. Where we found no evidence we write n/a rather than infer one. Pricing should be checked on the vendor page: what we show is what we saw on the day we looked.

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