How this 1-minute AI film was made

The film below was generated end to end on EpicVids: one fisherman who stays the same man in every scene, six scenes with real cuts, two lines spoken in his own voice, and a coastal soundscape that runs the full minute. This guide walks through exactly how it was made, the same steps work for any story.

60 seconds, six scenes, one consistent character who speaks. Generated on EpicVids.

1. 1

   Save your character once

   In the Studio, the Cast section stores a character from a single photo. This film's captain was saved once as a cast member. Selecting him in the wizard anchors every scene to that photo: each scene's opening frame is generated from it, so the same face, beard, hat, and coat carry through the whole film.

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   Write your scenes, or let AI write them

   This film's six scenes were written by hand, one line of story each: untie the boat at dawn, steer past the breakwater, ride the open water, haul the net, coil the ropes, come home in golden light. Typing one idea and letting the AI write the scenes works too; for this film, hand-written scenes kept the morning's arc exact.

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   Give your character a voice by writing dialogue into the scene

   Two scenes include a spoken line, written directly into the scene text in quotes with a note on how it should sound. The model used here, Grok Imagine 1.5, generates natural speech: the captain greets his boat in the first scene and reflects in the last, in a warm gravelly British voice, with no separate voice tool involved.

4. 4

   Pick a model to match your budget

   This film used Grok Imagine 1.5 at 720p, $1.52 per 10-second scene, chosen for its natural voices. The picker groups every model by what it is best at, from cheap iteration to premium cinematic, with a one-line description under each, and the same flow works on all of them.

5. 5

   Review each scene, approve or retry

   Generation runs on our servers, so you can close the tab and come back (you get a notification when a scene is waiting). Each scene parks for your review: approve it, or retry with a tweak. Scene joins set to Cut regenerate the next opening frame from your cast photo plus the previous scene's last frame, which is what keeps the character on-model across cuts. All six scenes of this film were approved on the first take.

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   Finish: stitching is automatic

   When the last scene is approved, EpicVids stitches everything server-side. Models with native audio keep their sound through the cuts, which is where this film's waves, gulls, and engine come from; silent models get a generated soundtrack at the end, and short tracks loop automatically so the film never goes quiet.