Create Animated Short Films from Script to Screen, Powered by AI

What used to take a studio and six months now takes an afternoon. Describe your story and Pexo's AI animated short film maker writes it, designs the characters, animates every scene, and scores the whole thing, so a solo creator can finish a real animated short in a weekend.

Loved by 10,000+ creators

+ Scene 1: the journey begins

Animated short film created with Pexo AI shown on a phone

What Pexo Does

A full animated short film generator, story to final render

Text & image to video

Turn a prompt or a photo into a finished animated short film

Start from a single line of text or a product photo. Pexo writes the script, generates every shot, and stitches them into one continuous, edited video. You can mix text to video, image to video, and script to video inside the same project, and stay in plain language the whole way. No timelines, no keyframes, no editor to open.

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Creating a animated short film from a text prompt and a photo in the Pexo editor

Pexo automatically selecting the best AI model for a animated short film

10+ models, auto-picked

The right video model, picked for you

Pexo runs across more than ten video engines, including Seedance, Kling, Veo, and Sora, and routes each shot to the model that handles it best. Photoreal hero shots, stylized motion, fast camera moves, each goes to its strongest engine automatically. You can name a specific model when you want fine control, but most of the time you never think about it. You get the best quality available without comparing tools yourself.

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Character consistency

Your character stays on model, scene to scene

Character consistency is the single hardest part of AI animation, and it is exactly what Pexo solves with Hyperframe. Instead of reusing reference images and wrestling with embeddings shot by shot, you lock your character once and they hold their design, color, and proportions across every scene of the animated short. Faces, costumes, and props stay put through cuts and camera moves, so the film reads as one consistent world rather than a collage that drifts frame to frame.

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An animated character staying consistent across every scene of an animated short film

Pexo composing an original soundtrack for a animated short film

Original music

A score written for this video

Pexo generates an original soundtrack tuned to the mood and pacing of your animated short film, so you are not digging through stock libraries or risking a copyright strike. Tell it the feel you want, energetic, cinematic, calm, and it scores the cut and mixes the levels under the narration automatically.

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Built-in image generation

Generate the frames you do not have

Missing a shot, a backdrop, or a product still? Pexo generates it in-house with gpt-image-2, matched to the look of your animated short film, then animates it straight into the timeline. You design the exact frame you need in words instead of searching stock or staging a shoot, and it flows into the video without leaving the tool.

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Pexo generating a custom image and animating it into a animated short film

Loved by creators

Animators making short films with Pexo

Character consistency is what always broke my AI shorts. With Hyperframe my lead finally stayed on model the whole film. I finished it in one weekend.

Julian Radcliffe

Solo animator

I wrote a screenplay and Pexo turned it into an animated short with real scenes, not disconnected clips. It went straight into my reel.

Cecily Braithwaite

Animation student

We used to hire an animation agency for months. Pexo let us explore a whole short in an afternoon. The style options blew us away.

Weston Kilbride

Indie studio director

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Everything about AI animated short films

What is an animated short film?+

An animated short film is a complete animated story, typically from a couple of minutes up to around fifteen, made for festivals, reels, or web release. With Pexo's AI animated short film generator you describe the story and get a finished short with script, animation, voices, and a score, no animators required.

How do I make an animated short film with AI?+

Start with the script, since the story carries the film. Pexo parses your outline into scenes, designs and locks your characters, animates each shot across its best engine, and adds voices and music, turning a screenplay into a watchable animated short without a production crew.

How do I keep characters consistent across scenes?+

Character consistency is the hardest part of AI animation, and Pexo handles it with Hyperframe. You lock a character once and they hold their design and color across every scene, instead of reusing reference images and fighting drift shot by shot.

What animation styles can I choose?+

Because Pexo runs across more than ten video engines and picks the strongest for each shot, you can aim for different looks, from stylized and painterly to clean 3D motion, and let it route your scenes to the engine that renders that style best.

Do I need animation or drawing skills?+

No. If you can describe the story and the characters, Pexo writes, designs, animates, voices, and scores the short for you. No timelines, no keyframes, no drawing, and no studio pipeline to learn.

How is an animated short film different from a trailer?+

An animated short film is a complete story from start to finish, while a teaser trailer is a short cut made to promote something and build hype. Make a short when you want the whole story on screen.