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Make the animated
drama series
you’ve always imagined.

Create your cast once. Every idea becomes a finished episode — the same characters, picking up where the last one left off. You bring the idea; your own writer and director make the episode, and you can approve every scene.

  • Pennywrites it
  • Slatedirects it
  • Zipfixes it
Let’s go, director!
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Power Couple

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Not the same

1:17 · 9:16

Same five faces, every scene.
Power Couple · ~1,533 credits of video

What people make with ShowMaker: Workplace sitcoms, News explainers, Bedtime stories, Documentaries, Kids’ series, How-tos, Brand mascots, Product ads, Anime shorts, Educational explainers, Family comedy, Claymation, Mockumentary, Stop-motion, Noir mysteries, Storybook fables, Vertical 9:16, Widescreen 16:9.

  • Workplace sitcoms
  • News explainers
  • Bedtime stories
  • Documentaries
  • Kids’ series
  • How-tos
  • Brand mascots
  • Product ads
  • Anime shorts
  • Educational explainers
  • Family comedy
  • Claymation
  • Mockumentary
  • Stop-motion
  • Noir mysteries
  • Storybook fables
  • Vertical 9:16
  • Widescreen 16:9

Now streaming

Made in ShowMaker. Every frame of it.

Six finished episodes from five shows, two explainers and three ads — every one written, directed, shot and cut in ShowMaker. Press play — they have their sound.

A ShowMaker original

Power Couple

A couple moves to Silicon Valley. On his first week at Google, Issac learns that “I wonder if we could explore an alternative” means no.

The brief it was made from
“Issac finds that working in the office in Silicon Valley is not the same…”
Clips
7
Episode
1:17
Shot on
MiniMax H3
On Regular today
~1,533 credits

7 clips, one world · 68.9s before the bookends

  1. 6.6s

  2. 11.6s

  3. 11.6s

  4. 9.4s

  5. 5.2s

  6. 9.4s

  7. 15.1s

  • Issac
  • Dana
  • Brett
  • Nell
  • Pixel

Issac, Dana, Brett, Nell, Pixel

More from the shelf

Now streaming · Power Couple

Not the same

A couple moves to Silicon Valley. On his first week at Google, Issac learns that “I wonder if we could explore an alternative” means no.

1:17 · 9:16 · with its intro and outro

The 7 clips it is cut from

Inside ShowMaker

Your whole studio,
in one app.

ShowMaker, the app: Your cast and their voices
The finished clip

Want the whole tour? 7 short recordings of the real app, about 9 minutes.

All guides

Why now

Short series are what people watch on phones now.

200 billion

YouTube Shorts views a day, on average

Source: YouTube, 2025
2.98 billion dollars

spent in short-drama apps in 2025 up 115 percent on 2024

Source: Sensor Tower via Marketing Dive

$9.5B

The short-drama market outside China · 2031 · projected

Source: Media Partners Asia via indiantelevision.com, Aug 2026

You’re the director

Read every scene. Change what you like.

Every clip arrives as a short scene you can read in a minute: who is in it, where, what the camera does, every line. Change anything before it is shot.

  • Approve

    Read it. If you like it, press once. The price is on the button.

  • Steer

    Say what you want in plain words. Only that clip is rewritten.

  • Edit

    Type straight into the scene. What you write is what gets made.

How it works

  1. Create your cast and your world — once per show.
  2. Bring an idea, or pick one of three pitches written for your show.
  3. Read every scene, and approve the price.
  4. Watch the finished episode, with its intro and outro.

Why ShowMaker

Be the director, not the glue.

Doing it yourself, you carry every script, face and clip from one app to the next. Here it all stays in one show.

Doing it yourself

A chat app

Scene 1. Brett asks Issac what he thinks…

copy, paste
An image tool

Is that the same face?

re-upload, every clip
A video generator

Upload the faces. Again.

download, import
An editor

Clip 5 changed. Stitch it again.

  • A bill in each app
  • Subtitles by hand
  • Post it yourself

Next episode: all of it again.

With ShowMaker

  1. 1

    Story

    Penny writes it, and remembers last week

    Your OK
  2. 2

    Cast & places

    Drawn once, reused in every clip

    Your OK
  3. 3

    Clips

    Slate plans them, you can edit them

    Your OK
  4. 4

    Video

    Subtitles, trims, transitions, export

    Your OK

Change one thing. Only what it touches is made again.

Pricing

Plans that grow with your show.

Payments coming soon

These are the plans in the app today. Card payments are coming soon, so nothing is charged yet.

  • Regular

    A series every month.

    72% off your first month

    $29$8first month

    then $29 a month · cancel any time

    • 3,000 credits a month22% off1,200 the first month
    • 25 GB storage for your shows
    • Unused credits roll over a month
    • Top up any time
  • Recommended

    Premium

    No ShowMaker mark, and three times the credits.

    $79a month

    billed monthly · cancel any time

    • Everything in Regular, plus
    • 9,000 credits a month29% off
    • 100 GB storage4× Regular
    • Videos without the ShowMaker mark
  • Producer

    The most credits and the most room.

    Best price per credit

    $199a month

    billed monthly · cancel any time

    • Everything in Premium, plus
    • 25,000 credits a month36% off
    • 500 GB storage5× Premium

Every plan comes with your whole studio

  • A writers’ roomPenny writes, Slate plans shots, Zip fixes
  • Three video modelsSeedance 2.5, Wan 3.0, MiniMax H3 Max, up to 1080p
  • Characters that stay the sameA model sheet each, 24 voices or your own
  • Ten looksPlaces drawn once and reused
  • Every clip, your callRead and change it before it’s shot
  • Ready to postTrim, subtitles, TikTok, Reels and Shorts, ads with your mascot

“% off” compares with top-ups, which start at $10 for 800 credits and last 90 days. Unused plan credits roll over one month, up to two months’ worth. Prices in USD, plus tax where it applies.

Built on models fromAnthropicOpenAIGoogleMiniMaxByteDanceOpenRouter

Runs on Google Cloud · Firebase · Vercel · FFmpeg

Names and logos belong to their owners. ShowMaker uses these companies’ models and services; it is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.

Questions

Questions, answered.

What it costs, whether faces stay the same, who sees your shows, and how to get in.

What does an episode cost, and when do I pay?

Every button shows its price before you press it, and nothing is spent until you approve. The seven clips of the Power Couple episode on this page would cost about 1,533 credits to shoot on Regular today — 20 credits a second of video, plus the pictures and footage each clip is sent.

Will my characters look the same in every episode?

That is the point of the product. Each character has a model sheet and a look for the episode; each place is drawn once and reused; the show has one style. Every clip is sent those pictures, and a clip that carries on the same moment starts from the last frame of the one before it, so a face and a room do not drift between shots or between episodes.

Will my show get views or make money?

We can’t promise views or earnings, and nobody honestly can. What ShowMaker gives you is the show: finished episodes with the same cast, a story that moves on from one episode to the next, and a price you see before you pay. YouTube’s monetization policies name “a series following a set of characters across episodes” as allowed, when each episode has a story of its own — but whether people watch, and what a platform pays, is up to them.

Is this AI slop?

Slop is what nobody directed: the same video made a thousand times. A ShowMaker show is the other thing — your idea, your cast, places drawn once, a story that follows by cause, and every scene yours to read and approve before it is made. Penny, Slate and Zip do the work; you make the calls.

Can I use my own voice?

Yes. Pick any of the 24 voices in the library, free; record or upload your own, free — it must be your voice, or one you have the right to use; or describe a voice in words and choose from three made for you, for about 13 credits. A character’s voice goes with every clip they speak in.

What kinds of shows can I make?

Stories — sitcoms, bedtime stories, mysteries, anything with a cast — and four kinds that are not stories: news explainers, documentaries, how-tos and educational explainers, each with an episode shape of its own and a narrator where it wants one. Ten looks to start from, in 9:16 or 16:9.

Can I make ads for my business?

Yes. Make a brand instead of a show: your mascot, your palette and your places, drawn once. Add your products from your own photos, pick a type of ad — a story, problem and solution, a product hero, a demo or a list — and every ad is priced before it is made.

Can I change a clip before it is shot?

Three ways. Approve it as written. Steer it with a note, and the Director rewrites that clip. Or type straight into the prose — code compiles what you write into exactly what the model is sent, and editing a clip that has not been shot yet costs nothing.

What if I change my mind later?

Every change goes into the episode’s history and can be undone. Only what a change actually touches is made again — everything else is reused at no cost — and anything you edited by hand is never silently replaced: you are asked whether to keep it or take the new version.

Which models make it?

Anthropic’s Claude writes the stories and the clips — or OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, if you choose it. Google’s Nano Banana draws the model sheets, places and stills. Clips are shot on MiniMax H3 Max through fal, or ByteDance Seedance 2.5 through fal or OpenRouter, and FFmpeg assembles the cut. Every clip records the model that made it.

What can I do from my phone?

Watch any episode — the cut is the first thing you see, full width. You can also read the story, check the cast and clips, approve each step and ask Zip. Turn on alerts in Account and your phone tells you when a step waits for you or an episode is finished (on iPhone, add the site to your home screen first). To start a new episode, use a computer.

Who can see my shows?

Only you. Your shows, characters and episodes belong to your account alone, and every clip and finished cut can be downloaded.

How do I get in?

Press Let’s go, director! and sign up with Google or with a link sent to your email. Signing up is free and needs no credit card, and every new account gets free credits to try it.

Episode one is a pitch away.

Build the world once. Then every episode is a pitch, a price you approve, and a finished cut.

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