Create Viral Pixar-Style AI Videos — Step-by-Step Guide & Transcript

[00:08] Pixar animation videos all over your Instagram feed the last few weeks. So, today I'm going to show you how to make these. But in case you have no idea what I'm talking about, I made this video in less than 10 minutes. Vanessa, I have

[00:21] something I want to How long? Wait, you guys are together? >> Dip, wait, please. I'm sorry. I just can't see a future with you anymore. Maybe you should try to get a real job like Tyler.

[00:34] like Tyler. >> I'm done wasting time. are you getting a real job? >> Mom, it's a brand deal. >> 30,000 for Instagram posts. >> Yeah, and there's more coming.

[00:53] >> Wait, is that dip? >> Dude, how did you do it? pulling millions of views on Instagram and YouTube. And creators are quietly

[01:05] made the one you just watched in under 10 minutes. And the crazy part is I only used one tool for the entire workflow. But let's be honest, most AI animation out there is AI slop. But that's not what we're making today. With the

[01:20] today, you could build a page like this that pulls tens of millions of views. or you can launch an animated channel like this on YouTube. The difference isn't going to show you the mistakes that beginners make. Then, I'm going to show

[01:33] finally, I'm going to show you how to monetize it all so you can start today. workflow, I want to show you a few accounts that are printing using this. August 8th and already has 80,000 followers from just a 100 posts. But

[01:49] more importantly, guys like TJR and Musa started posting these to generate millions of views. If you don't know who TJR is, he's one of the biggest trading creators on Instagram. And there's a reason he's using these to pull views.

[02:01] The more people who see his content end up buying his digital products. And as you can see looking through his feed, these types of videos are pulling other guys like Musa and this creator started posting them as well. And look,

[02:14] they got the same results. My point is, this is obviously working now. And it's a strategy that we should all be taking advantage of. >> Or we skip all that. Can't we just use one prompt, generate, post, and hit

[02:26] >> That's literally the AI slop I was just talking about. >> But hear me out. Slop can get views. >> Yeah, maybe for a day. But sure, we can try your way first. >> Awesome. I'm going to type Pixar style.

[02:39] Sad boy catches girlfriend cheating, gets rich, then drives past her in a >> Whoa, whoa, whoa. We are not using my credits with 1080p. We can start with 480p and let's see what happens. >> Oh, you're probably not going to be

[02:52] happy with me because I already tried it. But let's see how it turned out. >> I'm sorry, Leo. You need a real plan like Jake.

[03:07] like Jake. >> No more excuses. >> This came for you. And seriously, get a real plan. Dad, it's a $20,000 SPONSORSHIP. Is that Leo? Bro, teach me your thing.

[03:23] Is that Leo? Bro, teach me your thing. >> Mhm. Pixar animations. And I noticed that it broke in three different places where all beginners make the same mistakes. So, the first mistake that I made here

[03:38] was I basically just described a vibe. When you say something like sad guy catches girlfriend cheating, the AI is going to guess what you mean by that. So to look a lot different in every generation. The second mistake I made

[03:52] in all these videos. Here we have a ring box. Then here we have a bag. Because if an object matters in the scene, it needs to stay the exact same. And the third mistake is the biggest one by far, and this is going to save you guys a lot of

[04:06] credits. Mistake three is when you pay for 1080p before you have something that something in the highest quality is going to cost you a lot more than if you quality. So, the method that I like to use is to start by generating something

[04:21] at 480p and then move my way up to 1080p once I know that the scenes are correct. That way, I'm saving a ton of credits up front by not generating at the highest quality so I can learn from my mistakes then generate once at the highest

[04:34] >> Okay, Dip, we get it. It doesn't take a genius to make one of these AI videos. >> I'm about to get into that. Now, a big reason that these work so well is because of the hook and the watch time. To get a lot of watch time, you're going

[04:46] make sure that whatever you use at the beginning is very captivating. The more Instagram wants to keep you on their platform because they can run more ads. punchy, just like all these examples that I'm showing you here. Step one,

[05:00] find a winning format. About 3 weeks ago, I noticed that every guru started posting these clips, and they're doing it for a reason. Yeah, it works. Exactly. It gets a lot of views. The reel that I studied had 32 cuts in 47

[05:13] seconds. That's a new shot every second and a half, making it almost impossible I told you that the cuts are not the secret, the story is. Every single one arc that most of your favorite movies

[05:28] and I use it in almost every single one of my own videos. This is a storytelling structure where the main character sets out on a journey, faces major tests, overcomes them, and then returns

[05:40] transformed. And if you watched the Odyssey recently, that is literally the definition of a hero's journey. Every single Pixar animation video going viral structure. Either their girlfriend cheats on them, their parents doubt

[05:53] them, and they set out on a journey to prove them wrong. This is starting to make sense. >> We had a girlfriend cheat on us once.

[06:05] actually happen. Step two, write an original story. Whatever your hero's journey is, I want you to plug your story into this skeleton. And here's the have to write this from scratch. I made a Claude prompt that basically

[06:18] you want to plug into this. And then it's going to spit something fire back to you. I wanted a lot of drama in mine, so this is what Claude gave me back. So, that's our story line, but we're not done yet. Step three, character sheets.

[06:32] >> Dip. This is starting to get boring. Why do we need a character sheet? >> He is right. This is when a lot of you leave my videos, but I promise what I'm your video go from beginner to advanced. So, step three is characters. And this

[06:45] is where art list really comes in handy. Inside Art List, our images and our videos are all going to be in one place. So the character sheet that we use is video that we make. So I'm going to come to AI toolkit and then I'm going to

[06:58] click on image and GPT image 2. And just for reference, it costs about 600 credits per image which costs about this much in US dollar. Here I'm going to use this prompt to lock in all the tiny details that make my characters

[07:11] recognizable. So for Dip or myself, we're going to lock in the messy curls, the navy hoodie, the long nose, the big ears. The one thing that I make sure to feed art list in every single one of these prompts is that these are 3D

[07:23] teenage animated characters with a Pixar movie style look. We're going to make one for Dip, Vanessa, and Tyler all as teenagers. And then, of course, the mom who stays her own age. But let me show you what it came out with. And by the

[07:36] way, for generating myself, I also fed it an image of me so that it would know putting all the prompts below this video in the description, so you can just copy you want. This is the Vanessa prompt.

[07:48] mom prompt. You can just pause and screenshot this as well. Once we have each character, we can move on to the next step. And this is why using art list for this is so nice because it used to take four subscriptions to make one

[08:02] of these videos. Used to have to use one tool for images, one for voiceovers, one for video, and then something else for sound effects, music, and editing. Yuck. But now the nice thing is Artless puts all of this under one roof. I'm using

[08:16] GPT image 2 for the images, seedance 2.5 for the video, and Cance generates the voices automatically. On top of that, Art List has a huge library of licensed music and sound effects you can drop straight into your videos. Step four,

[08:31] prompts. When you're doing this, don't try to generate the entire video in one pass. Instead, I split mine into three different sections. So again, I went prompt, and that way it would give me sections for each video to follow for

[08:46] Seed Dance 2.5. Once the prompts are ready, I came back over to Art List and clicked on Seed Dance 2.5 for video. Here, I'm going to plug in the prompts, references. Once we have everything inputed, we're going to click generate,

[08:59] but this is step five. Please do not generate at 1080p. Again, I'm trying to save you some credits here. First, I want you to generate cheap at 480p to correctly. Make sure you have seed dance 2.5, uploaded all your characters, set

[09:13] it to 16 by9, turn audio on, and then the most important thing is that you click this button to make it 480p for a test. All three of my drafts at this rate only cost 12,000 credits, which is way cheaper than generating at 1080p.

[09:26] That way, if one clip fails and you need to tweak something, you can do so. generate here? >> Fine. Go ahead. Press generate. Dude, trust me on this. >> Okay, fine. Step six, review these

[09:39] drafts like a critic. There's a reason that every successful movie has critics. So, I want you to watch your own video in 480p like a movie critic who hates you. Ask yourself, is every face the same person? Does the door start closed?

[09:53] the right setting? Like, we can see here that the door started open. where we delete the whole prompt, write a new one, and render it in 1080p. >> No. Here's the thing. If you rewrite

[10:06] but it's going to break the stuff that was actually working. I only want you to fix what was broken. So, for me, in my video, I just add this one line. The door begins fully closed. Dip opens it. And then I regenerate it at 480p. Now,

[10:20] I'm going to check it again. Looks great. But only when all three clips make perfect sense do we move on to generating at 1080p. >> All right, Dip. I think the audience is asleep now. I'm going to generate at

[10:33] 1080p. >> Go for it. Step seven, we have the final of this video, but we're not done yet. In order for this to perform well on social media, we need to stitch together these three clips. So, I'm going to drag

[10:45] this over to Premiere Pro, and we're basically going to stitch this together, these videos, but we're going to need to add some background music. Every single you at the beginning of this had a background song that was trending. So,

[10:59] Instagram is go and find a trending song and match that to your clip. And of choose some sound effects that you might want to add. I chose these. And we're timeline and match that with the parts of the video that make sense.

[11:14] >> Dip, I posted this and it already has 10,000 views. How do we monetize this? >> Good question. And that takes us to our final step, which is monetization. So, this actually pay you? There are three monetization routes that you can use on

[11:29] these videos to make money. The first way and the way that most of these viral part of their funnel. That's the way that guys like TJR Musa and other people are using it. The animation basically pulls the views and then the views go

[11:42] your product, or your service. Making these videos is not the business. It's business. The second way that you can monetize this is to sell this as the skill. Tons of brands and creators want videos like these, but they don't know

[11:56] like this account who are making viral videos of other people and then those people see the videos and pay them to make more. For example, I made this video for one of my clients for an idea.

[12:10] >> Why were you late, >> bro? Thinks he's going to be a successful. Best case, you'll end up a janitor. >> See you in the streets.

[12:29] failed. Teemo, you're 17. I'm proud of you for even trying. I believe in you. you for even trying. I believe in you. Time to lock in. here anymore. I thought you were the founder. I was, but the business just

[12:43] founder. I was, but the business just got acquired. probably the most rewarding. You could turn these characters into a series and

[12:57] loads of views, brands are going to want to pay you to be featured inside that show. And in case you don't believe me, my YouTube channel literally started out as an AI influencer. I never showed my face until I had over 250,000

[13:11] >> Wait a second. So brands were paying you when you were just some AI character? >> Yes. If you're able to pull views on social media, then you have figured out the hardest part for brands. Attention. So, if you built a viral YouTube channel

[13:25] like any of these using this style and you're pulling a lot of views, then some major brand deals. And trust me, I know what it feels like to start out on my life were looking at what I was doing

[13:38] telling me I needed to get a real job. But I looked at all this content creation stuff like a marathon, not a sprint. For years, I barely made any these workflows with you guys now, so you can bypass a lot of the mistakes

[13:52] to you that this workflow actually works, I made another version that I'm But before you watch it, I just want to say that content creation can change struggling to get views, don't give up. I promise that everything that you want

[14:07] can be on the other side of one viral video. And with that, I'm about to play the clip, but I will see you on the other side. You're the reason he thinks Instagram and YouTube is a career. Dad, he's

[14:19] helping me. Helping you. You haven't made a dollar. Give him one month for month. If you're wrong, he gets a normal job.

[14:33] Maybe my dad was right. Trust me. Then make this video and watch what happens. video. >> That's more than I make in a month.

[14:48] >> That's more than I make in a month. Jake, can you teach me