How to Create an Animated Video with AI in 5 Steps
Creating a complete animated video used to take weeks. With AI, you can ship one in an afternoon — if you use the right kind of tool. Here's the five-step pipeline using OiiOii's multi-agent platform.
Step 1: Describe your story
Type a one-line description ("a brave cat finds a hidden city") or paste a complete script. OiiOii's Scriptwriter agent expands it into structured scene beats — dialogue, on-screen action, pacing — sized for whatever length you want, from a 15-second hook to a 60-second narrative short.
Step 2: Lock in your characters
This is the single most important step and the one most AI video tools cannot do. Describe each character (or upload a reference image), and the Character Designer agent produces a multi-pose, multi-expression character sheet and persists the character's identity. That identity is passed as a constraint to every downstream shot, so the cat in shot 1 is recognizably the same cat in shot 12.
Step 3: Define your scenes
The Scene Creator agent turns environments into reusable assets: a forest with consistent foliage and lighting, a classroom with stable props, a spaceship interior with steady design language. Each scene can be shot from any angle without lighting or prop drift.
Step 4: Generate the animation
The Animator agent now produces real video. It picks the best underlying model per shot — Sora 2 for cinematic motion, Veo 3.1 for shots needing native audio, Kling for high-quality human motion, DreamActor-M1 for character-heavy animation — while passing the character identity from Step 2 and the scene environment from Step 3 as constraints. The result: each shot is top-of-class quality and coherent with the rest of the short.
Step 5: Add music, edit, export
The Editor agent sequences the shots into a coherent timeline and handles transitions. The Sound Engineer agent generates a music bed tuned to the emotional arc and adds diegetic sound effects (footsteps, ambience). Export the result as MP4 to share, or regenerate individual shots from the canvas if you want to iterate.