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.