alt Hacker NewsA small tema and I are currently building https://scenema.ai, a platform for creating whiteboard and 2D animated explainers. We initially started Scenema to deal with character and voice consistency in cinematic AI videos. Most video models can only generate 5-10 second clips. More recently that has gone up to 15s. If you wanted to create any meaningful video longer than that, it becomes incredibly difficult to manage your characters and voices.
We ended up moving away from cinematic films and started focusing on explainers for two reasons: 1) we consume a lot of explainers and wanted to produce our own, and 2) traditional animated explainers are very expensive to produce and time consuming.
It took us a few months to get here but we’re now able to generate minutes long explainers ( up to 30 minutes) with studio-level animation across whiteboard and 2d. Here are some examples:
https://scenema.ai/explore/what-is-audio-compression-dinner-...
https://scenema.ai/explore/do-opposites-really-attract-what-...
https://scenema.ai/explore/every-salon-service-is-a-chemistr...