Create children’s AI story videos from drawings and auto-publish to YouTube with Blotato

💥 From Drawing to Story: Auto-Publish AI Video to YouTube with Blotato

Overview

Transform a hand-drawn character sketch into a fully animated, narrated video story — automatically. This 3-part pipeline uses Claude AI, image generation, and video synthesis to go from a simple drawing to a publish-ready video, with no manual editing required.

Perfect for: indie creators, educators, storytellers, and anyone who wants to bring hand-drawn characters to life at scale.

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How It Works

Part 1 — From Drawing to Story: Bringing Characters to Life 1. A form submission triggers the workflow with an uploaded drawing 2. The image is analyzed by Claude AI to extract characters and traits 3. Character images are generated via Nano Banana (image generation API) 4. A full story is written by Claude AI, split into scenes, and passed to Part 2

Part 2 — From Characters to Scenes: Rendering the Visual Story 1. Character images are downloaded and converted to Base64 references 2. Scene images are generated using Nano Banana with character consistency 3. Scene image URLs are mapped and the video pipeline is triggered