How to Make a Whiteboard Animation Video With AI (From One Link)
On Fiverr, a 60-second whiteboard explainer video costs between $315 and $600, and you can wait up to 14 days for it. I wanted to know whether AI could produce something similar in less time, so I tested it with a single website link.
The first test
I copied the link of a website, pasted it into the AI Media Machine, and clicked one button. This is the script that came back, read over a whiteboard animation:
Need car repairs but don't have time to wait at the shop? Wrench is a full-service auto repair shop that comes directly to you. Our certified mechanics fix your car right in your driveway or at work. You get a fixed quote upfront with no hidden fees or surprises. Plus, every job is backed by a 12-month, 12,000 mile warranty. Get your free quote today at wrench.com.
The AI read the entire page, understood what the business does, and invented that script. It created the animations and the cartoon drawings, added the text, animated the hand, generated the voiceover, and added music. I never opened Premiere Pro or any other animation app, because the AI Media Machine edited and rendered the whole video itself.
How to make one
Open the AI Media Machine and select the tool called the Phantom. It can create several types of videos and animations, and it understands how a good video should be put together.
- Paste the link of a website, a product, or an offer. You can add your own instructions here, but I didn't add any.
- Choose horizontal or vertical. I picked horizontal because I wanted this for YouTube.
- Pick a video style, or let the Phantom choose the one it thinks fits best. I selected whiteboard explainer.
- Write your own script, or let the AI write it. I let the AI do it.
- Decide whether to keep the voiceover and the music. I kept both.
- Click Summon the Phantom.
What happens while it works
It goes through the whole website, the copy and the graphics. In my first example it recognized the company logo and added it to the end of the video, which I thought was a smart choice.
It also looks at the unique offer and what makes it special, so it handles the copywriting for you. Then it writes the script, creates the voice, the music, and the sound effects, cuts everything together, and finishes the video.
The second video
A few minutes later the video was ready, along with the script it wrote, which you can copy if you want to make changes:
Car trouble but no time to wait at a repair shop? Wrench is a full-service auto repair shop that comes directly to you. Our certified mechanics handle everything from oil changes to brake jobs right in your driveway. Get a fixed quote before we start. The price we quote is the price we charge. Plus, every job is backed by our 12-month, 12,000 mile warranty. Skip the shop. Visit wrench.com to get your free quote today.
We've been making explainer videos for over a decade, and getting the animations to fit was always a hassle. Even choosing the right type of animation was serious work. This drew the cartoons and assembled the whole thing on its own.
Changing the video afterwards
If a client wants something different, the AI Media Machine can edit the video for you. You describe the change the way you'd explain it to a freelancer. I asked for two things:
I want you to create bullet points for the following text showing up on the screen. Diagnostics, oil changes, brake jobs.
At the last frame, I want a happy mechanic holding a wrench in his hand and pointing at the wrench.com website address.
You can also upload an image if you want something specific to appear, like a logo.
The edit took about 3 minutes, and the whole video was remade. The Phantom left a note saying it had used the correct spelling, brake jobs, instead of the break jobs it found in the text I gave it. I had misspelled it and it fixed that on its own. The note also said it created a new drawing for the last frame.
That last shot came out exactly as I asked: a happy mechanic holding a wrench and pointing down at the website address. Drawing that character by hand would have taken me a long time, and I'm not an expert at drawing.
The bullet points request didn't land. It didn't fully understand what I wanted there, so I would ask again and be more specific about how the bullet points should look. That's a small thing next to the rest of the result.
When you're happy with the video, click the three dots and download it. From there you can send it straight to your client.
What it costs in credits
A new video costs 50 credits and an edit costs 10, so one video with one modification is 60 credits. That took me somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes.
The lifetime deal includes 600 credits every month, which works out to roughly 10 of these animations a month. The credits renew every month. If you need more in a given month, you can buy extra packages, for example around $10 or $25.
Selling these videos
On Fiverr, sellers charge around $300 for whiteboard animation videos, and some charge around $600. You could sign up and sell there, but many sellers are already doing exactly that, so you would be competing with all of them.
Going directly to businesses works better. That's what I cover in the AI Creators Club, where the classroom has a course on getting leads and clients for video services without spending money on ads: how to collect the leads, how to approach the businesses, and how to make them an offer. You can ask me or the other members when you get stuck.
The club has a free trial at the moment and is $37 per month after that. The price is going up soon.
Try it
The AI Media Machine is currently available as a lifetime deal, which is where those 600 monthly credits come from. If you'd rather have my team make the videos for you, book a free strategy call.
