An AI show generator that makes the whole show

What an AI show generator has to get right

Most AI video tools are clip generators. You type a prompt, you get a few seconds of footage, and the next prompt starts from nothing. That works for a single shot. It does not work for a show, because a show is defined by what carries over: the same people, the same places, the same voices, and a story that picks up where the last scene stopped.

A show generator therefore has to hold a production together, not just make pictures. It needs a script that knows who says what, a cast that is defined once and reused, a storyboard that breaks scenes into shots, voices assigned to characters rather than to lines, and an edit that assembles it all into something you can watch from start to finish.

ShowMaker Studio is built around that idea. The project is the show. A series groups episodes that share one cast and one set of locations, so episode ten is made from the same assets as episode one.

From an idea to a finished episode

You can start three ways. Type an idea and let the AI Story Assistant draft it. Pick a trope in Drama Builder, which grows a premise into a series skeleton and episode outlines. Or upload your own screenplay, which ShowMaker structures faithfully rather than rewriting.

From the script, the cast and locations are extracted and drawn. Scenes are broken into shots on the Storyboard or in Scene Flow, where each beat of the script sits beside the shot that covers it. Dialogue is voiced per character. The free animatic lets you watch the whole episode before paying for video, and when it plays well you render only the shots that need motion.

Video comes from current models such as Seedance and Wan, with the character and location references sent with every shot. Multishot panels cover several shots of a conversation in one take, cut on the dialogue, which keeps a scene consistent. The Editor adds captions, score and sound, and you export an MP4 or publish.

• Start from an idea, a trope, or your own script.
• Watch a free animatic before any video is rendered.
• Render shot by shot, with the cast sent as references.

An AI TV show maker for vertical and widescreen

Shows now live in two shapes. Vertical micro dramas run 60 to 120 seconds an episode for TikTok, Reels and the drama apps. Widescreen episodes and short films suit YouTube and pitching. ShowMaker makes both, and a Hybrid project keeps one story in two native frames, so the vertical cut is not a crop of the wide one.

Because a series shares its assets, making the next episode is mostly writing and directing. The cast sheets, wardrobe, voices and location stills already exist, and every new shot draws on them.

Make a show from ChatGPT or Claude

ShowMaker Studio also runs as an MCP connector, so an AI assistant can make the show for you. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client to the ShowMaker server and ask it to write a premise, build the outline, show the storyboard or change a line of dialogue. The assistant works on the same project you see in the browser.

Anything that spends credits on video is quoted first, so an assistant cannot render without your approval. The MCP docs list every tool and show how to connect each client.